251: Andrya Ambro (Gold Dime, Talk Normal)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Armed with a background in orchestral percussion, hand drumming, and jazz studies, Andrya Ambro possesses a uniquely compositional drum set style and is a proud member of the Singing Drummer Club. A resident of New York City, Andrea tells Joe about how she is handling the current pandemic; growing up in Delaware; the influence her older brother had in shaping her musical awareness; getting kicked out of jazz school; finding her voice via hand drumming; and the internal debate around whether her dedication to music would preclude her from becoming the kind of parent she'd want to be.

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0:00.0	This is Joe Wong.
0:14.6	Welcome to the Trap Set.
0:16.7	During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing daily episodes. Today's guest
0:51.3	is Andrea Ambrough.
0:53.6	Andrea is perhaps best known as one half of the noise rock duo Talk Normal.
0:59.1	And since 2014, she's also played with Gold Dine, whose second album, Fire Talk, was released last year.
1:07.8	Andrea's background in orchestral percussion informs her uniquely compositional drum set style.
1:14.3	She's also a proud member of the singing drummer club. She spoke to me from her home in New York
1:19.9	City.
1:32.3	Hi. Hi, how are you? Good. How are you?
1:34.0	I'm okay. It's been a chill day here.
1:37.9	Are you in New York City?
1:39.7	I am, yeah.
1:42.4	Yes, and I just think I read that we'll be in quarantine for an unforeseeable
1:48.0	length of time now. I don't know if that's real or not, but yeah. What are you going to do to
1:53.5	keep yourself occupied while you're quarantined? You know, all these people who are like, I'm going to,
1:58.9	you know, write my next record or do other sorts of creative, productive things.
2:04.6	I think that's great and I, um, good intention there, but I, I'm not there yet.
2:12.7	Um, yeah, I can't, I feel super unsettled and like I'm spinning a little bit.
2:20.0	And I, you know, I'm focusing more on practical things like figuring out unemployment,
2:24.5	which is super, it's hard here because obviously so many people are filing for it.
2:31.4	Or like calling my congresspeople about this or that.
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