interview
sam and the black
seas: the importance
of the islands
explain the name of the band?
Everything was born in 2012, I had some
song written with Giovanni D’Avanzo, ar-
ranged for guitar, cajòn and cello. After my
return from three months in Australia, whe-
re most of Silver’s songs have been written,
I contacted Mattia and Cisco with whom I
had already played in other bands to propo-
se to play together, some tests and we started
to live. After a couple of recorded eps and a
Silver is the debut of Sam and the Black
Seas, an indie-folk group that recorded the
record moving between Italy and England.
Recorded by Daniele Falletta, mixed by Mat-
teo Sandri at the Mono studio in Milan and
mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Mae-
stà Studio, the record includes nine English
songs from many different colors. We inter-
viewed them.
Can you summarize your story so far and
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good number of changes of formation, inclu-
ding Andrea, we ended up playing in Sardi-
nia, where we met Marco who proposed to
collaborate with h is label. Apparently, the
islands mark our most important moments.
In this year and a half of collaboration with
Atomic Fat we played so much in London,
shot video material and especially recorded
our first album, Silver. The name Sam and
the Black Seas was born playing, each of us
chose a place, number and color. Initially it
was ‘Seven Black Seas’, but Thomas, founding
partner with Marco of Atomic Fat, changed it
to ‘Sam and the Black Seas’. He won him with
the votes... no, he did, in fact, have decided
so, saying that “we are not a metal band”.
You have “prepared the ground” for the
album by publishing four singles and videos
before the release: how did this “strategy”
come about?
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