Expatriate (band)
| Expatriates | |
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.jpg) Ben King |
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| General information | |
| origin |
 Australia
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| Genre (s) | Indie rock , new wave |
| founding | 2005 |
| Website | expatriateband.com ( Memento from January 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) |
| Current occupation | |
| Ben King | |
| Cristo | |
| Damian Press | |
| David Molland | |
Expatriate is an indie rock band from Australia. The band was founded in Sydney in 2005 and currently consists of singer Ben King, drummer Cristo, keyboardist Damian Press and bassist David Molland.
Expatriate has released two studio albums and two EPs to date, with the first album reaching # 38 on the ARIA charts. The name is derived from what the band describes as common themes that run through every member's life .
biography
Frontman Ben King grew up an expatriate and moved between Australia and the Indonesian capital Jakarta , where he attended an international high school with classmates from all over the world. The students exchanged tapes and were against the political background of President Suharto's Orde Baru administration . King returned to Australia with his family as a teenager and studied politics at Sydney University before choosing to focus on music.
The drummer and percussionist Cristo was the son of Greek immigrants and listened to the Greek underground rembetiko on his father's transistor radio - a type of folk music that stems from the forced immigration of two million Greek refugees from Anatolia after the Turkish war of liberation . Cristo and King met at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney, where they discovered the similarity of their musical preferences and life experiences. Together with Cristo's roommate Damian Press, a keyboardist and sound designer with a penchant for atmospheric music, the musicians decided on the name Expatriate.
Lovers le Strange
They recorded their debut five-track EP entitled Lovers le Strange at Ginsberg Studios in Petersham, where Press worked as a producer and sound engineer. It was released in October 2005 . EP-singles The Spaces Between (2005) and Killer Kat (2006) were the Australian radio station Triple J played. This led to national tours and an appearance at the Australian Homebake Festival in 2005, and in February 2006 their first national headline tour sold out. Performances in London , Toronto , New York City , Los Angeles and Austin made Jim Kerr on her attention, who invited the band personally, the Simple Minds to support the Australian leg of their world tour in May.
In the midst of this
In July and August 2006, expatriates went to Robert Lang Studios in Seattle to record and co- produce their debut album In The Midst Of This with producer John Goodmanson ( Death Cab for Cutie , Blonde Redhead , Wu-Tang Clan , Hot Hot Heat ) . The band was keen to work with Goodmanson "to capture the rawness of their live shows". Bassist Dave Molland joined the band in September 2006 after the album sessions were over and they toured Los Angeles and London before returning to Australia for a seven-week national tour with Something for Kate.
Expatriates Play a Part EP was released in February 2007 , In The Midst Of This followed in April. The LP debuted at number 38 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) chart.
Hyper / Hearts
The band released their second studio album on July 6, 2012.