{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Sambanova | type = studio | artist = Pnau | cover = Sambanova.jpg | alt = | released = July 1999 | recorded = | studio = | genre = House | length = 73:27 | label = Peking Duck, Warner | producer = Nick Littlemore | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Again | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = ''Sambanova'' | type = studio album | cover = Sambanova2001.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = 2001 re-release }}{{Singles | name = Sambanova | type = studio | single1 = Need Your Lovin' Baby | single1date = February 2000 | single2 = Follow Me | single2date = July 2001 }} }} '''''Sambanova''''' is the debut album by Australian dance music duo Pnau, released in July 1999 on the independent Peking Duck label. However, the album was pulled from record stores due to uncleared samples;<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p509057/biography|pure_url=yes}} | title = Pnau - Biography | author = Wesolowski, David Peter | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation | accessdate = 2 April 2010 }}</ref> Warner Music Australasia re-released it in August 2001 with a different track listing, and it peaked in the top 40 of the ARIA Albums Chart.<ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web | url = http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Pnau&titel=Sambanova&cat=a | title = Pnau Sambanova | publisher = Hung Medien | work = Australian charts portal | accessdate = 2 April 2010 }}</ref>
The album won an ARIA Music Award for Best Dance Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2000.<ref name="ARIA2000">{{cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2000 | title = ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000: 14th Annual ARIA Awards | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | accessdate = 2 April 2010 | archive-date = 26 September 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235639/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2000 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
==Background== Pnau released their debut album ''Sambanova'' in July 1999 under the small independent Peking Duck label. It was recorded in a bedroom studio and Pnau declared they only expected to sell "a few thousand copies".<ref name="JJJAgain">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s978904.htm | title = Pnau ''Again'' | publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) | work = Triple J | date= 31 March 2003 | accessdate = 16 April 2010 }}</ref> It was re-released in June 2000 by Warner Music Australasia however the album was pulled from record stores for uncleared samples and re-released in an altered format by Warner Music Australasia in August 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://junkee.com/longform/history-of-sambanova-pnau|title = The Oral History of 'Sambanova': The Classic, Cursed Album That Almost Broke PNAU}}</ref> In a 2003 interview with ''The Age'' newspaper's Andrew Drever, Mayes recalled that they had no understanding of sample clearances due to their naivety in the music business.<ref name="Drever">{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/16/1065917534693.html?from=storyrhs | title = Pnau and then | work = The Age | publisher = Fairfax Media | last = Drever | first = Andrew | date = 17 October 2003 | accessdate = 16 April 2010 }}</ref>
Pnau toured nationally for the Big Day Out in 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2011.
==Track listing== Three full length versions of ''Sambanova'' have been released to the public, one through the label Peking Duck and two through Warner Music Australasia.
'''Peking Duck version''' * ''Sambanova'' (1999, CD format, released by Peking Duck, DUCKCD001)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.discogs.com/release/116932 | title = Pnau – Sambanova (CD) | date = 2 October 1999 | publisher = Discogs | accessdate = 2 April 2010 }}</ref>
{{track listing | headline = ''Sambanova'' | title1 = Journey Agent |length1 = 4:21 | title2 = Mellotron |length2 = 6:48 | title3 = Keep on Truckin' |length3 = 4:58 | title4 = Hard Biscuit |length4 = 5:25 | title5 = To Hear Your Love (Jon Hardy's Tinted Mix) |length5 = 5:06 | title6 = Sambanova |length6 = 6:07 | title7 = Need Your Lovin' Baby |length7 = 6:30 | title8 = Direct Drive |length8 = 5:37 | title9 = Discone |length9 = 4:40 | title10 = The Red Tapes |length10 = 5:21 | title11 = Meshes of the Afternoon |length11 = 3:47 | title12 = Arthur's Pizza |length12 = 4:28 | title13 = The Last Track |length13 = 10:19 | total_length = 1:06:27}}
'''2000 version''' * ''Sambanova'' (2000, CD format, had video on it, rereleased by Warner Music Australasia, 8573831942)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.discogs.com/release/12030 | title = Pnau – Sambanova (CD, Enhanced) | date = May 2000 | publisher = Discogs | accessdate = 2 April 2010 }}</ref>
{{track listing | headline = ''Sambanova'' | title1 = Journey Agent |length1 = | title2 = Mellotron |length2 = | title3 = Keep on Truckin' |length3 = | title4 = Hard Biscuit |length4 = | title5 = Sambanova |length5 = | title6 = Need Your Lovin' Baby |length6 = | title7 = Direct Drive |length7 = | title8 = Discone |length8 = | title9 = The Red Tapes |length9 = | title10 = Meshes of the Afternoon |length10 = | title11 = Arthur's Pizza |length11 = | title12 = The Last Track |length12 = | total_length = }}
'''2001 version''' * ''Sambanova'' (July 2001, CD format, has 3 bonus tracks, released by Warner Music Australasia, 8573883392)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.discogs.com/release/8948 | title = Pnau – Sambanova (CD, Album) | date = July 2001 | publisher = Discogs | accessdate = 2 April 2010 }}</ref> {{track listing | headline = ''Sambanova'' | title1 = Follow Me |length1 = 6:09 | title2 = Journey Agent |length2 = 4:20 | title3 = Mellotron |length3 = 6:49 | title4 = Keep on Truckin' |length4 = 4:46 | title5 = Hard Biscuit |length5 = 5:26 | title6 = Ordinary Day |length6 = 4:00 | title7 = Sambanova |length7 = 6:26 | title8 = Need Your Lovin' Baby |length8 = 6:24 | title9 = Direct Drive |length9 = 5:36 | title10 = The Red Tapes |length10 = 4:48 | title11 = Searchin' |length11 = 6:16 | title12 = Meshes of the Afternoon |length12 = 3:32 | title13 = The Last Track |length13 = 6:19 | total_length = 70:47 }}
==Personnel== '''Pnau members''' *Nick Littlemore – vocals, drums, percussion, synthesiser, keyboards, trombone, melodica, clavi *Peter Mayes – guitars, vocals, bass guitar, synthesiser, keyboards, melodica, keytar
'''Additional musicians''' *Paul Johannessen – electric piano (Fender Rhodes) *Gawain McGrath – guitar
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+ Chart performance for ''Sambanova'' ! scope="col"| Chart (2000–2001) ! scope="col"| Peak<br /> position |- {{album chart|Australia|39|artist=Pnau|album=Sambanova|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 October 2018}} |- {{album chart|New Zealand|48|artist=Pnau|album=Sambanova|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 October 2018}} |}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Pnau}}
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