Tambora
Our first release
8/30/20!
a year Without summer
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Postcards from Tambora:
In 1815 Mount Tambora erupted, becoming the catalyst for a year of political shifts and a chain of environmental catastrophes, but also for artistic expression... For months the Earth was shrouded in debris and many lived a sheltered asocial lifestyle, the lack of sun led to a "year without summer." The isolation, sickness, and bleak weather inspired, profound author, Mary Shelly to write Frankenstein. The pre-release of our EP on her birthday serves as a homage but also a reflection of the past that allows one to reimagine the future. Tambora is our Frankenstein.
-Coupe del mar
2020 BMI Liner Notes:
dys function
Composer: elias, cole, (ama)dea, kei (ama)dea & cole
Lyrics: (ama)dea & cole
Vocals: (ama)dea & cole + Keys: K
Production: elias & cole
Sample: Frank Guerrero y Su Grupo Aché
Engineering: elias
mic Lo
Composer: elias, cole, wooks
Lyrics: cole & elias
Vocals: cole, wooks, elias & (ama)dea
Production: elias & cole
Engineering: elias
stratus
Composer: (ama)dea, elias, wooks, cole kei
Lyrics: (ama)dea & cole
Vocals: (ama)dea, wooks & cole
Keys: (ama)dea
Guitar: wooks & elias
Production: elias & cole
Engineering: elias
doggy paddle blues
Composer: cole, kei, elias
Lyrics: cole & (ama)dea
Vocals: cole & (ama)dea
Keys: kei
Production: cole & elias
Engineering: elias
*Special thanks to Kathia St. Hilaire for providing her art for the album cover
I think we tend to fear change. It’s scary. Especially when that change comes with things you aren’t prepared for. Sometimes it’s a literal disaster, and sometimes it’s just the disaster that comes from not knowing what do with yourself. When we started writing Tambora, I was in that very state. Life was a numb whirlwind of emotion, but yet everything also felt simultaneously still. We took that stillness as an opportunity to make something, and I guess that’s what makes Tambora so special for me. It’s bittersweet- a creative totem birthed from disaster.
-Elias del mar
I’ve been LISTENING closely to silence, trying to understand how environments shape it. There was a storm that took out electricity during the pandemic. One would imagine that this would further strip air pollution down and enlarge the sphere for silence. Instead generators popped up throughout the suburbs and birthed an orchestra of bad vibrations. The engines chugged, but the waving trees conducted the noise, warping it around their branches to create pockets of silence. In those pockets I felt a clarity. I wanted to embrace and subtly recreate that feeling in the final recordings of Tamborar.
-Cole del mar
Merch!! (COMING SOON)
