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Posted by steve on October 22nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm | Add Comment
Out of all the nine tracks I produced for Ape last year this is my personal favourite.
It’s got this strange dark undercurrent going on- with monks chanting and a lot of dissonance-some people find it quite hard to listen to but it seems absolutely perfect to me—balanced-but just teetering on the edge of disaster.
I played it to someone once in headphones and they said it felt like their head was being pulled apart!! Someone else described it in a blog as sounding like “making filthy love in a railway arch, whilst on acid, in 1940s New York”. Which of course I was thrilled by.
When it was in its early days as a bunch of unconnected noises put together by me and Andy, I played it to some other singers to see if they were interested in contributing to it- the reaction was “no- its shit!!”.- hahah – But Jen took these completely random bits of music and glued them into something completely different. From then on it just needed organizing and arranging. I spent months lovingly tweaking and moving it about in a dark obsessive manner.
The video came about as I was messing about watching old cartoons and simultaneously listening to music. I slowed down a Little Audrey cartoon from 1949 to half speed and it’s as if it was made for it- quite spooky really.
It’s on the Hard Listening EP which of course everyone should buy.
Posted by steve on September 2nd, 2010 at 5:19 am | Add Comment
The limited edition CD by Andy Partridge called POWERS is exclusively available from the Ape Store but is going fast. Hurry or you’ll miss bagging one of only 500 copies of this spooky set of sound pieces inspired by the sci-fi art of Richard M Powers.
Here is a taster of the project. The first piece from the disc and a collage of some of the sensational book jacket art that caught Andy’s imagination at a very young age and led ultimately to this release.
buy Powers CD GBP 19.99 inc VAT
Posted by steve on July 20th, 2010 at 3:44 am | 1 Comment »
From Albuquerque to the UK. Ape’s latest signing Jen Olive, makes a quick dash over to our shores to promote her astounding new album ‘Warm Robot’ released on 29th March, with a series of live shows this month.
To coincide with the dates here’s the NEW video for Querquehouse, made by Jen and shot in her home town Albuqeurque.
Check out the rest of the shows. The whole of the Ape Crew were out in force (including Ape master A.P) in Swindon to watch Jen’s first UK show. We were all mightily impressed.
BUY Warm Robot
Posted by steve on April 9th, 2010 at 9:20 am | 1 Comment »
On her recent trip to the UK Jen was filmed giving this rather divine solo rendition of the song Querquehouse from her brand new album WARM ROBOT. buy
With camerawork and lights by Mitch Keene, and the sound captured by APEs Stuart Rowe and Andy P, Jen sits and fingerpicks her way through the song in a mesmerising fashion. If this is the quality of her performances then you’d be a silly billy to miss her when she arrives in the UK next week for her one woman mini tour. Check out the tour news item for details, in the meantime drink in this film and enjoy.
Posted by steve on March 31st, 2010 at 4:18 am | 3 Comments »
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 »
Dear Earthlings, not only did we create the extraordinarily beautiful COMPLETE AND UTTER DUKES boxset, we now find they’re going VERY fast. Dont delay in ordering this sumptuous set packed with vinyl albums and single, CDs, jigsaw and special T shirt, because we are committed to making a VERY limited run and you wont want to miss this ultimate Dukes-out. We wouldnt want you to be cursing yourself later,what with Yule around the corner and all.
So before you dash over to the shop and snap up a pre-order, linger a while and remind yourself of how spot on/stupid/super/superior and singalong the Dukes of Stratosphear are by taking a peak at the video for ‘Mole From the Ministry’.
Thats in the box too!
Order your BOX
Posted by steve on November 10th, 2009 at 5:18 am | Add Comment
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
