Gambit, Harvard Grad Turns to Sincere Electronic Pop
After graduating from Harvard, Gambit began working a 9 to 5 with a venture capitalist real estate firm. Despite his ‘comfortable’ lifestyle, he found himself numbed by his corporate existence and longed for the suspense of his adolescence. He missed the music he obsessed over as a teenager, the music he somehow knew was his true calling. So, for three long years from 6 PM to 2 AM, he wrote and recorded ‘Take Off and Landing’ every night after a full day’s work. The result of which is an honest account of one person’s struggle with the straight and narrow. ‘Memo to yourself, wake up run like hell’ Gambit yearns in the album’s second cut ‘Maybe.’ I for one wish him well.
I had the pleasure to see Gambit live on stage entertaining the crowd at the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan on April 12th, 2016.
TTL: Hey guys, great show! Really enjoyed every minute of it. How long the band has been active for?
No idea. Plus or minus 5 years? I have tough time with remember things like that.
TTL: What is a song that your fans love and adore?
Alibi. I hated that song but everyone loved it. So now I like it, too. ME = Superficial. It blew up after it was in a IZombie trailer on the CW.
Didn’t even know we got the placement. Some random kid from Germany reached out about it. The interwebs is crazy.
TTL: You are describing Gambit as a Sincere Electronic Pop band, please elaborate.
I elaborate that I am pretentious. I am like Jack Black in High Fidelity. I dunno. It’s definitely pop. But not pop pop top 40 pop. And it’s not all geetars and cymbals. Lots of bleeps and bloops so that’s electronic? But definitely sincere. That I know.
TTL: What is the band planning for this year and for the near future?
Nothing. Take it as it goes homie.
TTL: Anything else you would like to add to our mini interview?
We definitely are not the best musicians. Not virtuosos in anything. But I know we have something. Something like the other night. Lots of strangers in a room. That’s our pocket. I know we got the room somewhere in our set. I know we connected. I know there is something about our live show that is open. Communicating to a bunch of you’ve never met at that have only the lowest expectations for an opener. Those of the flashes of light in this whole thing you come back to. You get it.
TTL: Thank you Lyle! Best of luck to you and to your band!
Gambit’s Debut Album “Take Off & Landing” available everywhere: http://bit.ly/rphqzi
For more information on Gambit, please contact: gambit@gambitofficial.com
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Interview and photos by Florin Tilinca for TTL Magazine
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