Brooklyn / Berlin-based duo’s latest “Sebastian”
premieres via The Wild Magazine. Hear “Vermona”
single via BBC6, Black Book.
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Take
Berlin (L-R): Jesse Barnes, Yvonne Ambrée. Photo Credit: Fabrizio del Rincon.
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“Sebastian” is the first single
from the “Lionize” EP by Take Berlin
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out the premiere
of “Sebastian” by Take Berlin exclusively via The
Wild Magazine!
The Brooklyn and Berlin-based duo Take Berlin came together when, in the
winter of 2011, guitarist Jesse Barnes
pulled a discarded cassette deck from a snowy pile of trash in Brooklyn. A few
months after that rescue, chance led Barnes
to vocalist Yvonne Ambrée for the
first time. After a half-dozen trips
across the Atlantic, Take Berlin had
realized the greater fate of that discarded tape deck, utilizing its inherent
vintage qualities to record and enhance all of the basic tracks on the “Lionize” EP, out today.
The EP represents the first collaboration
from these two established musical talents. For their “day jobs,” Ambrée is an in-demand backing vocalist
with some of Germany’s biggest artists, and more recently with US-based acts
such as Syl Johnson, Kendra Morris and Sleigh Bells. Barnes can
be found playing guitar with Eli
“Paperboy” Reed, Lulu Gainsbourg,
and Aloe Blacc among others.
The latest single from the EP recently premiered via The
Wild Magazine and is featured in the latest edition of the Bandcamp
Weekly podcast. “‘Sebastian’ is largely influenced by Jose Saramago’s novel, “The Year of The Death of Ricardo Reis,”
according to Ambrée. “In the story,
the protagonist is visited by the ghost of poet Fernando Pessoa. This
magic-realism struck a chord in me as I began to consider the ‘ghosts’ that
visit us from time to time - cultural ghosts as well as those from our own
personal history.”
Barnez adds, “‘Sebastian’ was the last song we recorded for the EP and on the day
we finished, we received word that a friend of ours had just given birth to a
baby boy that they coincidentally named Sebastian! We later received a video of the proud father
dancing to our song with his son. Quite out of tune, yet truly touching.” “Sebastian”
is the follow-up to “Vermona,” the
first single from “Lionize” which
recently premiered via BlackBook and is currently receiving UK airplay
on BBC6.
“‘Vermona’
was the first song we wrote together,” Barnes
says. “The song focuses on the true story of a girl who is raised by her
grandmother after the child’s mother escapes to the West in the trunk of a
car.” Even with the heavy subject
matter, “Vemona” is still hopeful.
As Ambrée
puts it, “These children who grew up under communist rule were experiencing the
world for the first time and since they had nothing to compare it to, the world
was still a beautiful place.”
Take Berlin
is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Take Berlin
“Lionize”
(S/R, Out Now)
02. Lionize
03. Eaves
04. Kentucky
06. Stranger
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Take Berlin Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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