TRAKS MAGAZINE #9

interview
sam and the black
seas: the importance
of the islands
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 Matteo
Sandri at the Mono studio in Milan and
mastered by Giovanni Versari at La Maestà
Studio, the record includes nine English
songs from many different colors. We interviewed
them.
Can you summarize your story so far and
explain the name of the band?
Everything was born in 2012, I had some
song written with Giovanni D’Avanzo, arranged
for guitar, cajòn and cello. After my
return from three months in Australia, where
most of Silver’s songs have been written,
I contacted Mattia and Cisco with whom I
had already played in other bands to propose
to play together, some tests and we started
to live. After a couple of recorded eps and a
good number of changes of formation, including
Andrea, we ended up playing in Sardinia,
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
4 5
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?