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.

 

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Overhear the third and final chapter of Andy & Barrys mega duologue concerning all that is known by the human race and a few things you might not have known about the marvelous Monstrance double album.

Andy reveals some of his Frippesque tales. Discover what feelings like Christmas are about, and a warning, don’t listen to this album with your freezer open.

You’ll be entertained and enthralled, and you might even want to buy the album.

 

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Do you write and record wonderful songs or great instrumental music?

Does your band want a very fair deal with a small label that has great wordwide distribution and a great reputation?

Do you lay awake at night gnashing your teeth, convinced that your material, your art, would change the world if only they could get to hear it?

Then APE would very much like to listen to your stuff. Don’t be shy, send in your recordings and who knows, you could be just what we are looking for. (more…)