Lambert & Dekker Announce Their First European Tour Dates

LAMBERT & DEKKER, a piano and vocals duo, have confirmed their Autumn tour dates across Europe, including stops in Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, London and more. The live performance will feature tracks from their upcoming album "We Share Phenomena" (out on October 12).

A connection sparked 10 years ago in a tiny Utrecht club has flickered into a cross-country collaboration and a disarming debut from Lambert & Dekker. The pair never set foot in the same studio, but We Share Phenomena, crafted via iPhone messages belies the beguiling atmospherics and bold tones that drift from the speakers. Berlin-based Lambert, a mask-wearing pianist at the fore of the neo-classical movement, and singer Brookln Dekker, one-half of acclaimed Anglo-American outfit Rue Royale, describe themselves as a 'ghost' duo who have fleshed into something beyond the sum of their parts.

Despite bumping into each other several times on the road, their next meaningful connection didn't come until 2016 when Nottingham-based Brookln went to a Lambert gig at a church in nearby Leicester.

"We had a few drinks after the show and I asked 'why don't we make music together?'," recalls Brookln. A few weeks later an mp3 arrived in an email from Lambert. "I was so moved that I started writing the lyrics: 'Lay me down/Open me up/What you don't like/You're free to cut' (from 'You're Free To Cut')," Brookln says. "We wrote 6 songs in as many days."

Battling a bout of depression, Brookln paused the process before Lambert reached out again 18 months later. "Then it didn't take us much more than 2 weeks to finish it," says Lambert. "I was sitting in my studio in Berlin producing the music and writing the piano parts while Brookln was in Nottingham making beautiful songs out of it. We didn't spend a single day in the same studio or even speak on the phone. We just kept hitting 'forward'. The record was mastered and picked up by a label before we saw each other again. It felt like working with a ghost!"

We Share Phenomena is an effortless, under-the-skin alliance that forges Lambert's classical, at times jazzy, piano and Brookln's soul-filled melodies with subtle rhythm glitches and string echoes. The two have become more than kindred spirits through making the 12-song album, says Lambert. "Two days ago I met Brookln for the first time since 2016 and we had a drink together. I realised he is not a ghost after all - but a friend."

November 13 - LEIPZIG, Neues Schauspiel

November 14 - BERLIN, Burg Schnabel

November 15 - MUNSTER, Gleis 22

November 16 - COLOGNE, Art Theater

November 17 - KARLSRUHE, Cafe Nun

November 19 - LONDON, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

November 20 - NOTTINGHAM, Jam Cafe

November 21 - DUBLIN, Bello Bar

November 23 - UTRECHT, Tivoli Vredenburg

November 24 - DUSSELDORF, FFT

November 25 - AMSTERDAM, Paradiso Noord (Tuinzaal)

November 27 - HANNOVER, Feinkost Lampe

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