Although forming in 2005 as a three-piece band, Edmonton, Alberta’s Teambuilding truly entered the Canadian music scene, with their current five-member line-up, in 2007. Often compared to bands such as Radiohead and Mogwai, the band’s unique brand of ambient rock quickly garnered a strong response from local music audiences and is gaining the attention of many outside the local music scene.
Teambuilding’s music is often a delicate layering of instruments, slowly building into warm and dynamic soundscapes, mixed with unique and haunting vocal melodies. Hints of various musical influences such as Godspeed You Black Emperor, Built to Spill, and Tortoise can be heard throughout the band’s eclectic range of songs.
Teambuilding released their first EP “Upon St. Lawrence” in February of 2008. After a sold out CD release show, the album quickly charted 1 on CJSR, Edmonton’s college radio station, and has received excellent reviews in various independent publications and local newspapers. The success of the band’s debut release has allowed them to showcase their dynamic live performance. Sharing the stage with high-profile Canadian independent bands such as A Northern Chorus, The Besnard Lakes, and Juno award-winning Wintersleep; Teambuilding has proven that they can hold their own next to some of the best bands that Canada has to offer.
The band’s current five-member line up includes Brad Amundson (vocals, guitar), ex-member of “Choke” Jack Jaggard (guitar), Jamie Robertson (drums), Shaun Hammermeister (bass), and Scott Davidchuk (vibraphones, percussion).
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"Sprawling, ebullient ambient rock with a distinct Canadian touch, Upon St. Lawrence is thoughtful and delicately constructed under several coatings of guitar, vibraphone, keys and frontman Bradley Amundson's hushed vocals. It's a mesmerizing mix -- at times creaking and groaning like an old toolshed in winter or shining as bright as a spacecraft coursing the night sky"
Francois Marchand, Edmonton Journal
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"I like the mood they create, taking us to the land of Thom Yorke's early days or even David Lynch favourite Julie Cruise, eyes closed, exhale slowly"
Fish Griwkowsky, Edmonton SUN.
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"St Lawrence has a distinctive aural character, moody and churning, given to walls of jagged sound and more spacious gaps that resolve into intricate textural arrangements. Amundson's vocals share the same audio plane as the instruments, his impressionistic lyrics woven into the music that supports them."
Mary Christa O'Keefe, VUE Weekly.
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Debut C.D. "Upon St. Lawrence" was released Feb. 1st, to a sold out audience @ Edmonton's The Pawnshop. It is being played in steady rotation on CKUA, CJSR, and CBC radio, Having already charted 1 on CJSR 88.5f.m.
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Team Building has shared the stage with:
Wintersleep, The Besnard Lakes, A Northern Chorus, The Hylozoists, The Cape May, Great Aunt Ida.
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