The Elephant Six Recording Company - Frosted Ambassador
FROSTED AMBASSADOR

The Frosted Ambassador is a bit of an enigma, to say the least...

This description is taken from the Kindercore Records website: "The Frosted Ambassador started out in 1977 in the group Chronicle Ape And The New Sound. A disappointing solo career in the early 80's prompted his retirement from music and relocation to Belgium to study toast. The master cassette of this unreleased album was found buried under a goose (Freedom Goose) by an American serviceman living overseas, who accidentally sent the tape home to his family in Georgia in place of an intended audio letter (coincidentally concerning the quality of crispy bread in Europe). This tape eventually resurfaced in 1995 in a shoe suspended over a colonial wig in a Georgia thrift store."

There are several indicators which suggest that this project is related to The Olivia Tremor Control. First, the first track on the album The Frosted Ambassador is Silverbug, a track donated to Kindercore's Treble Revolution Volume 2 compilation by The Olivias. Second, Will Cullen Hart of the band did the artwork. Third, one can recognize parts of the theremin-laden Introduction (from Black Foliage) being used on track 3. Finally, a track on the album Dusk At Cubist Castle is called Frosted Ambassador.

E6 East has no comment and my lips are sealed.

Other projects involving Frosted Ambassador members:
The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes


ALBUMS FORMAT LABEL RELEASE DATE
The Frosted Ambassador CD Kindercore
(KC 030)
Aug. 1999
The Frosted Ambassador LP Kindercore
(KC 030)
Nov. 1999

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