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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

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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!

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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

 

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Watch the stunning short film shot in the deepest Sussex countryside for The Milk & Honey Bands forthcoming  single ‘Mary Faith Autumn’.

Classic Rock’s Johnny Dee  reviewed the Dog Eared Moonlight album BUY as -

” An album that shift gears between Crowded House at their most majestic and the authentic melancholly that proved so successful for David Gray.Wonderful.”

 

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In this the second fascinating installment, Andy and legendary Dukes producer John Leckie talk about the inspiration behind the 25 O’clock  recordings.  How they were done, and what went into achieving that unique Dukes sound, through the phasing and editing on different tracks and bits of different records being spun in when the songs were mixed.

Also they reveal the truth behind the long held rumour that it was Woody Allens little angry voice at the end of ‘My Love Explodes’.

 

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Listen to the first colourful installment of a multi part series of chats between Andy Partridge and legendary producer John Leckie, or Sir John Johns and Swami Anand Nagara to give them their Dukes of Stratosphear nom de psyches.

In the first part John talks of the run up to producing 25 Oclock and includes tales of his early years in the industry. Strap yourself in securely as you’re in for a bumpy ride. You’ll hear of kissing sheep, recording an addled Syd, the joy of getting fired and many more kaleidoscopic stories to warm the cockles of your liquid light show projector.

The expanded remastered versions of 25 Oclock and Psonic Psunspot are released on Ape on 20th April BUY

 

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Canadian queen of invention Veda Hille commissioned Quinne Rodgers and her team of experts to make this video for Lucklucky, a track from Vedas latest album for Ape, This Riot Life. BUY

 

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Wizard musician and producer Stuart Rowe, ringmaster to a flying circus of musical contributors known as Lighterthief, has his first Digital EP Maximalism due for release on Ape on 16th March. buy

The three tracks are Lover, Falling Into The Future and All Done Things with head Ape Andy Partridge playing guitar and singing on all titles.

As a taster Stuart has edited together this short film with excerpts from the EP to whet your appetite for his sonic adventures.

 

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