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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Ape has commissioned New York animator Eun-Ha Paek from the Milky Elephant collective to make a video for Veda Hilles song ‘Queen Of The May’ from her album ‘Return Of The Kildeer’.
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The animation is an emotive interpretation of the song and Eun-Ha’s work has been screened at many festivals and venues in the USA, including the New York Expo of Short Film and Video and the UCLA Film and Television archive.

Eun-Ha has also had an animation for “Simple Song’ included in the Residents Commercial Album DVD

 

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