6/21/2012

Zambri Premiere's "All You Maybes"

Zambri Premiere's "All You Maybes" On Vice / Noisey

Announce European Tour Dates



Click Here To Watch "All You Maybes" On Vice / Noisey


Press Quotes
"Zambri, with two harmonizing female singers, pushed toward eerier, electronic realms." Jon Pareles, New York Times
"Zambri resemble noise-pushers HEALTH or No Age (...) they've got an ear for a haunting melody and buckets full of attitude to deliver it with, too." NME
"Such an unpredictable, cliffhanger atmosphere suits their witchy vocals; wispier backdrops give them room to breathe. Considering how expertly they dabble in the dark side, it's tempting to place a bet on goth" SPIN (7/10)
"Zambri doesn’t speak in tongues, but they do twist synths, drum machines, industrial crashes, and their ethereal voices into a fevered cloud. Their music is a ghostly dialect somewhere between Fever Ray’s foreboding and Cocteau Twins otherworldly abstraction—splitting the difference between pop and sound art." Under The Radar 
"They’ve reached this Kate Bush level of top-of-the-mountain, sing-into-the-sun gothic atmosphere, flanked by electronic ghost hammering and little synth baby coos. It’s dark and uplifting but not calculated.” FADER
"Zambri sisters craft tragically romantic New Wave pop loaded with hauntingly harmonized choruses and cathartic keyboard build-ups.” SPIN



'House of Baasa' Tracklisting

1. All You Maybes
2. ICBYS
3. Carry
4. Hundred Hearts
5. Straws
6. Places
7. My Could Have True
8. From An Angle
9. From the Starts
10. You'll Never Beat Dogs



 



Tour Dates

06/22 - Dia de la Musica - Madrid, Spain w/Azealia Banks, St. Vincent, Twin Shadow, Bear In Heaven + more
06/26 - Madame Jojo's - London, UK
06/27 - The Old Blue Last - London, UK
 
Biography
Zambri is the ethereal duo of Cristi Jo and Jessica, sisters whom have been making music together since they shared a bedroom as kids. Spending endless hours creating stories and building universes with their voices and toys, their debut album, House Of Baasa, out now, is a powerful expression that embodies the spirit of adventure in all its glory.
Strings are stretched to reveal alien textures, found sounds and field recordings weave in and out, all the while traveling through a colorful landscape that pulls the listener deep into the otherworld of Zambri, a world as imaginative as the mind of a young Alice (In Wonderland).
Just at the end of last year, Zambri released their debut EP, Glossolalia, receiving praise from the likes of Stereogum (Band to Watch), Spin Magazine, NME, MTV, Under The Radar, and more pointing out the unique sound the sisters seemed to have plucked from the netherworld.  MTV says Zambri “…delivers the sort of fully-formed, cohesive sound that a lifetime of collaboration might be necessary to achieve.”
With House of Baasa, Jessica and Cristi Jo bare their soul even more, revealing their true adoration for pop music and catchy melodies. During the recording process, the sisters drew heavily from sounds of familiarity to create a mood that is as recognizable as it is contagious.  Together, they produced and recorded the album in its entirety, bouncing back and forth from Chinatown to The Village for the greater part of a year. Paying homage to their roots, they used old demo recordings from cassette tapes, manipulated the traditional use of their voices and built their own sounds. The majority of the finished record is made up of the very original takes they laid down, resulting with a sound that is both honest and magical.
For the final touches, they enlisted a small crew of imaginative collaborators like Rick Kwan who mixed, Chris Coady who played a co-production role on select songs, and mates Seth Kasper and Will Spitz (whom also play live with Zambri), Noel Heroux (Hooray For Earth) and Jon Philpot (Bear In Heaven) who are featured throughout.
The album’s title refers to the ancient Zambri – a servant in the bible who rebelled against his ruler Baasa to overtake the throne for seven days, after which he set fire to the palace and himself. 
In the spirit of their namesake, Zambri's music effortlessly defies genre, a parallel to the attitudes of its creators.  A natural ear for pop melody informs their experimental yet deliberate approach, which makes their music boldly fearless and refreshingly original.  Zambri says, "We wanted to go back into that childhood zone of absolute freedom, making moves with gut instinct".  House Of Baasa sounds simultaneously free and highly intentional, alien and nostalgic.

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