Daffo, AKA: Gabi Gamberg, has announced they have signed to Concord Records, along with the news they have shared a new version of their popular track “Poor Madeline” featuring the Portland-based folk artist Searows.

With a poetic specificity that cuts right to the heart, the Brooklyn-based artist speaks an unfiltered truth about all that sets them apart from the wider world, exploring everything from shame and self-loathing to misplaced affection and the chaos of living with an overactive brain. As a kid growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, the musician otherwise known as Gabi Gamberg first started writing songs after taking up guitar at age 9.

On the new version of “Poor Madeline,” Daffo worked with producer Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Deerhoof) and musicians like guitarist Adam Brisbin (Buck Meek, Jolie Holland), adding a lovely intensity to their lived-in reflection on feeling hopelessly adrift. “I wrote ‘Poor Madeline’ when I was 17 and having a tough time with my mental health,” says Gamberg, who penned the song as a student at Idyllwild Arts Academy (a residential arts high school in Southern California). “I was also dealing with all these stomach problems and kept thinking about the part in the children’s book Madeline where Madeline’s appendix bursts, so I decided to use her name in the lyrics.” Mastered by Heba Kadry (Björk, Sufjan Stevens) and mainly recorded live at Weinrobe’s Brooklyn studio.

Of the new rendition of the song, Daffo says: “This alternate version of ‘Poor Madeline’ is a more tender approach to the song. I loved working with Alec (Searows), because it allowed me to experience the song through a new lens and kind of feel it as the person I am today rather than the 17 year old who wrote it. The guitar, violin, piano, my vocal, and slide guitar are all one take of us playing in Philip’s studio in New York, and then we sent it to Alec in Portland to add his beautiful layers.”

“I was ecstatic when Gabi asked me if I wanted to sing on a new version of Poor Madeline. I’ve been so obsessed with that song, and Gabi’s songwriting in general, since the first time I heard it. I’m so honored to have gotten to be a part of such a beautiful version of such a sick song,” Searows adds.

Daffo 2024 Tour Dates

08/16 – Westerly, RI – Paddy’s Beach Club*
08/17 – Lowell, MA – Lowell Summer Music Series*
09/25 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room^
09/26 – San Diego, CA -Casbah^
09/28 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel^
09/29 – Sacramento, CA – Goldfield Trading Post^
10/01 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios^
10/02 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret^
10/03 – Seattle, WA – Neumos^
10/04 – Boise, ID – Neurolux^
10/05 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court^
10/06 – Denver, CO -Larimer Lounge^
10/08 – St. Paul, MN -Turf Club^
10/09 – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium^
10/10 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall^
10/11 – Hamtramck, MI – The Sanctuary^
10/12 -Toronto, ON -Longboat Hall^
10/13 – Montreal, QC – Cabaret Foufs^
10/15 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge^
10/16 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair^
10/17 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church^
10/18 – New York, NY -Bowery Ballroom^
10/19 – Washington, DC – Black Cat^
10/20 – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall^
10/22 – Nashville, TN – The End^
10/23 – Atlanta, GA -The Masquerade (Purgatory)^
10/26 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada^
10/25 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia^
10/27/24 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)^
10/29 – Santa Fe, NM – Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery^
10/30 -Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge^
11/01 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom^

* with Chadwick Stokes & The Pintos
^ with Illumanti Hotties

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