With her heavenly APE debut album WARM ROBOT only a mere few weeks away, New Mexico’s neutron nymphet Jen Olive presents part 2 of the album podcast. Jen walks you warmly through such beautiful songs as the seashore seance ALL MY HEADS MEET, the lucid luminescence of WAFFLESONS DREAM and the sugar sad swing of HERE I GO.
This is one truly beautiful record that we at APE are very proud of. Captain Andy P himself mixed the music and even contributed percussion and little keyboard dabs in places. WARM ROBOT is released on March 28th but we will be making it available to pre-order before then, with the added bonus of a free download version for the early birds. We’ll update you on it all as soon as we can, in the meantime enjoy part 2 of Jens podcast.
Posted by steve on March 4th, 2010 at 4:33 am | 1 Comment »
APE’s latest signing is the jensational JEN OLIVE and by way of introduction to this astounding allegro algorithm from Albuquerque, we present you Jen in her own words as she takes you on a jentle aural ride through her forthcoming album WARM ROBOT. Its no lie to tell you that everyone who’s heard fragments from this truly beautiful record has nothing but immediate love and delight springing from their lips, we think you will too, it’s something very special.
Join Jen here in part 1, and hear some of the landscape behind the songs ROBOT BOY, WIRE WIRE, SET IT ON FIRE and more. The album will be out in February 2010 but if you cant wait to hear the jewels in the box (and they really are), then listen here for a tour inside the head of the warm robot herself.
Posted by steve on December 2nd, 2009 at 5:43 am | 3 Comments »
Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh And Keith Farrell take us through the last of 3 podcasts to conclude their oratory for the last 5 tracks of their new compilation “Giddy”. Hear how Ape maestro Andy Partridge made his contribution to project and a tribute to that great psychedelic instrument the Mellotron.
buy Giddy
Posted by steve on November 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am | 2 Comments »
APES Doctor Doolittle of music mangling, Lighterthief aka Stuart Rowe,has selected,squished and squeezed music and images together to give you a flavour of his latest EP TRICK PICTURE. He’s diced the three very different but very marvelous musical pieces into an odd medley and spliced up footage of Lighterthief the band, live and in rehearsal. The aural and visual equivalent of getting a free piece of cheese from a lovely lady in a supermarket.
Get yourself over and take a peek,and if you havent heard the music of Lighterthief yet we suggest there is no better way than to download the TRICK PICTURE EP{or its pulsing predecessor MAXIMALISM}and then you’ll hear why those already in the know are in the know
Posted by steve on November 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 am | Add Comment
Listen to part 2 of Pugwash’s compelling and amusing insight into the tracks on their new soon to be released compilation Giddy.
Thomas and Keith reveal the XTC connection and how Dave Gregory became involved in arranging one of the songs on the album.
buy Giddy
Posted by steve on September 22nd, 2009 at 4:40 am | 4 Comments »
Its here the APE RADIO, that is non stop songs by APE artists 24 hours a day brought to you via a custom built desktop player.
Here is a sneak preview of whats instore. You’ll hear a totally random cross section through the ever expanding APE catalogue to delight your ears and who knows, maybe even be as turned on as the funky little player when you hear something you’ve never heard before.
For the techies amongst you just click on the radio share button to get your copy, or for us mere mortals get intallation instructions here.
Posted by steve on August 10th, 2009 at 1:16 am | 15 Comments »
Giddy is the first Pugwash release on Ape. Out on 21st September, the album is a compilation of classic finely crafted pop songs from Pugwash’s previous albums.
Listen to this the first part of 3 pugcasts where Thomas Walsh and Keith Farrell talk you through the first 4 tracks on the album.
Thomas Walsh is one half of the Duckworth Lewis Method, a project with Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy where they recorded an album of songs inspired totally by the wonderful game of cricket.
You will be able to pre order your copy of Giddy very shortly and get a digital copy of the album FREE when you order.
Posted by steve on August 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 pm | 2 Comments »
In this the final part of our Psychedelic Psoiree between Sir John Johns, also known as our Andy P, and Swami Anand Nagara, or John Leckie they remember all sorts of delights from dirt floor living, to that guest drummer on ‘Pale and Precious’ and woodworking!!.
Buy XTC/Dukes re-issues
Posted by steve on July 28th, 2009 at 3:43 am | 4 Comments »
Part 2 of Robert Whites podcast, where he talks about the making of the Dog Eared Moonlight album, including how the legendary guitarist B.J Cole came to be on the album. Buy
Posted by steve on June 9th, 2009 at 6:40 am | 1 Comment »
Andy and John talk about the making of Psonic Psunspot at the Cornish Studio Sawmills; the Abbey Road for the Straw Dogs set.
Situated on a tidal creek this is the same studio where, having achieved the unique Dukes sound, John subsequently recorded the legendary debut Stone Roses album.
Did you know? on Psonic Psunspot, the sides were flipped, so the album as you hear it now was not the original running order. Find out why and much more…
Posted by steve on May 26th, 2009 at 4:56 am | 4 Comments »
