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SAMBASSADEUR
Sambassadeur debuted on Labrador in winter 2005 with the release of the “Between the Lines” EP. The EP was followed by their self-titled debut album later that year. The songs were all recorded at home, which gave the production a primitive quality that led some to label them a lo-fi twee act. This was never the band’s intention.
If the cliché is that songs are like children, then Sambassadeur saw no purpose in stagnating in front of their home computer while watching their kids taken custody by those who didn't have the ability to, indeed, read between the lines and see through the understated surface of the songs. This called for some change.
The EP “Coastal Affairs”, relased in May 2006, marked the start of a development towards a more luxurious setting. Without losing their enigmatic qualities, songs like “Kate” and “Marie” introduced a breeze of new confidence. The Sambassadeurs saw the oportunity to take things to even greater heights and returned to the scene in late August 2007 with “Subtle Changes” - the first single of the upcoming album “Migration” and also the first Sambassadeur song to feature a saxophone.
Three words to get you started on “Migration”: melodies, bitterness and some minor thievery. It was in fact so brilliant that Sweden’s radio channel, P3, nominated it for “Årets Pop” (This Year’s Best Pop) on their award show P3 Guld.
Their third album “European”, which is due to be released February 23rd 2010, has taken almost two years to finish and they’ve once again employed the talents of Mattias Glavå, who produced “Migration”. According to the band he did very little. He merely lay on the sofa and cursed how badly they played their instruments and continued to bring in more and more musicians. A string quartet, three drummers, a saxophone player, clarinet, the list goes on...
This is said to be the extrovert album from Sambassadeur. They’ve finally accomplished making the grand, classic and orchestrated album they’ve always wanted to. So don’t miss it for the world!
You will also be able to catch Sambassadeur live in various places during 2010. Don’t hold your hopes too high on them going too far away from Sweden though. The guitarist Joachim Läckberg suffers from severe flying anxiety and has to take the train!
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