Bambara Announce Late Summer UK & EU Live Dates
Following across-the-board acclaim for their new album Birthmarks, released in March via Bella Union, and a sold-out Spring tour, Brooklyn trio Bambara return to the UK in late August for a handful of live dates around their End Of The Road festival performance ahead of a couple of festival appearances in the Netherlands and Belgium – dates and info below:
Friday 29th August – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
Saturday 30th August – Nottingham – The Bodega
Sunday 31st August – Dorset – End Of The Road Festival
Tuesday 2nd September – Southampton – The Joiners
Wednesday 3rd September – Cambridge – The Portland Arms
Friday 5th September – Asten, NL – Misty Fields Festival
Saturday 6th September – Sint-Niklaas, BE – Villa Pace Festival
The follow-up to their 2020 breakthrough Stray, Bambara’s new album Birthmarks was created in collaboration with co-producer Graham Sutton (These New Puritans, Jarvis Cocker, Sea Power) from UK experimental pioneers Bark Psychosis and features guest vocals by Madeline Johnston (Midwife), Emma Acs (Crack Cloud) and Bria Salmena.
Birthmarks is a reincarnation of sorts for the trio — Twin brothers Reid (vocals) and Blaze Bateh (drums), alongside childhood friend William Brookshire (bass) — altogether. Five years removed from Stray, and three from their 2022 EP Love On My Mind, Birthmarks inevitably arrives with the weight of a new chapter after a lengthy absence. Long ago having established their brand of magnetic darkness — equally formed by the grit of their adopted New York City home and the mysterious corners of the Georgian swamps that raised them — Bambara found themselves in a period of slow, laborious evolution. Birthmarks emerges directly from the band’s favoured aesthetics and themes but captures them with a new sense of sonic adventurousness and thematic subtlety, resulting in a collection of songs that are somehow both the band’s most apocalyptic and most poignant. Bambara have shared the singles “Pray To Me”, “Letters From Sing Sing” and “Face Of Love” from the album.
Bambara are a once-in-a-generation band of intrepid experimentation and compulsive storytelling. For those who crave potent and electrifying music in the lineage of its most celebrated literarily-inclined auteurs – Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen et al – they are, without question, the real deal.
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