pop*eye...Labrador

LABRADOR is the muical project of FLEMMING BORBY. Flemming started his carreer in Copenhagen, Denmark back in the middle of the eighties as a drummer in local bands as The Poets, Alter Ego and Janes Rejoice.
In the beginning of the 90´ties he joined the band Greene, where a.o. Jens Unmack and the Olesen-brothers acted as musicians. Through the 90’ties Greene did 3 albums and a lot of touring all over Denmark.
Meanwhile Flemming finished his degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
After the dissolvation of Greene in 1998, Flemming formed LABRADOR.
First album “Goodbye Susanne” came out in 2002, on Flemmings new started label DIVINE RECORDS, including the radiosingle “In A Blue Balloon” which became “Ugens Uundgåelige” on Danish National Radio P3.
The Album came out in Japan and whole Scandinavia as well.
Second album “Instamatic Lovelife” was released in 2004 in Denmark, Japan and Germany, and Flemming and Labrador did concerts in Japan, Germany, Denmark, France and England.
Looking after musicians for the 3rd album, Flemming ended up in Pablo Milanez´ studio in Havanna, Cuba, in January 2007, and recorded a couple of songs with some local brilliant young Cuban jazzmusicians. The result was so good that he returned in March to do an whole album. Overdubs was made in Copenhagen and Hamburg, and the first radiosingle is now ready, and to hear on this page.
The whole album will be out in the beginning of 2008.

Labrador - Instamatic Lovelife (2004)

Labrador is a Danish band led by Flemming Borby. It was formed in 1998 after the break up of the very praised danish band GREENE. In 2000 the first demo was out, and became “demo of the month” in GAFFA (Dainsh no.1 independent music-magazine) January 2000. In 2002 the first album “Goodbye Susanne” came out and included the single “In a Blue Balloon” which became a big radio-hit on Danish national radio P3. In 2004 second album “Instamatic Lovelife” was released in Denmark and Japan. The style of Labrador is contemporary popmusic, popmusic made in the beginning of the 21th century with inspiration from the great popartists of the sixties and seventies. Soft trumpet-lines, airy female-voices, flying guitars, blended with Flemming Borbys voice, makes you think of the time when Herb Alpert and Burt Baccharach was young, Brigitte Bardot looked good, and Serge Gainsbourg was alive!
"This is a hands down no brainer for Scandinavian number one of the year.Everything we love about pop music from the past 40 years was distilled down into this album and made new again.What's more, he made that difficult feat seem effortless.A milestone."

Labrador Space