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OM 025LP
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De Ambassade's 2019 Duistre Kamers album was a huge favorite at Optimo Music so the label jumped at the chance to release the follow up: The Fool. Following hot in the heels of the acclaimed Young Birds/Palette 12" on Optimo Music (OM 052EP), The Fool is destined to be another cold wave, synth, new industrial, experimental -- whatever you want to call it --classic. Ambassade on the album: "Born from several years of research and contemplation on the human mind The Fool can be understood as a reflection to the dark energies -- natural, political, human and otherwise -- that are released when it comes to religion, greed and power. Historically, some rulers have used religion to legitimize their power. We were also inspired by wanting to examine what negative impact religion can have from the fact that it's always dominated by men. This was pursued by exploring a wide range of diverse and unusual types of instruments that took on a new approach of tonal expression, with the use of detuned choral and voice samples, droned tape loops, and DIY metal and found percussion. It's from these diverse sources that the process of creativity keeps persistently mutating. This process was focused through the enigmatic electronic and percussion composition from the band which alternates between foreground and background for the haunting vocal performances. "Later Met Je Beste Zelf" features Eelco Couvreur.
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12"
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OM 052EP
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The Netherland's De Ambassade have dropped the "De" and are now known as Ambassade. Optimo Music will be releasing their second album in 2023. Ahead of that is this glorious two track 12". Both tracks are exclusive to this release. Ambassade on the tracks: "These two songs were born after a collaboration with Naama Freedman. She's an artist from Amsterdam and former member of Ambassade. She brought a couple sketches to the studio and we came out with these two songs. The lyrics on 'Young Birds' come from an old traditional English folk song from around 1903. It has been re-arranged a couple times throughout the years by multiple artists. The song reflects our development in sound and arrangement with extended synthesizer parts, less conventional song-writing. Also, singing in English is a new path. The pulsing song 'Palette' is a perfect combination of sequence and extended legato vocal parts. It creates a tense atmosphere which builds up to the very end."
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KH 003EP
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2018 repress, blue vinyl. In the grayness by concrete of the Amsterdam suburbs we find Pascal Pinkert (Dollkraut) working on his darker wave salvation, going by the moniker of De Ambassade. Wat Voel Je Nou forms an alliance between the past and the present deliver one-take recordings, drowned in reverb, using preferably older recording methods. The result is poppy wave tracks that shiver your spine and let you chant along to lyrics from the Dutch lowlands. Mastering by Rude66.
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KH 010EP
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Verloren is like a late night pink Dutch sky after a long day of heavy rain, a sign that a warm summer day is just ahead. It will make you sweat tonight. This long-awaited follow-up 7" will be released in the same form as the first: a beautifully designed disco sleeve with cardboard artwork. The vinyl will feature perfect-not-perfect, melancholic yet very danceable tracks. The machines in here take you back to the '80s, but sound very contemporary nevertheless.
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