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
john leckie interview pt1 [22:14m]:
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Posted by steve on March 31st, 2009 at 6:05 am | 7 Comments »
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
Posted by steve on March 25th, 2009 at 4:59 am | Add Comment
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.
Posted by steve on March 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am | 3 Comments »
Released on 23th February DOWNLOAD for FREE your copy now and get a bonus unreleased track ‘Mind’
‘Disappear’ is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Dog Eared Moonlight’ which is already receiving many plaudits from the music press.
‘Everyman pop that’s due an everyman audience’ RECORD COLLECTOR ****
‘A masterclass in classy songwriting’ ANDY GILL INDEPENDENT ***
‘10 songs of finely wrought, melodic English rock’ Q ***
‘Stomper’ UNCUT ***
‘Blissful’ WORD
‘Sumptuous’ LATEST
Pre order your copy of the album on CD before 9th March and get the whole album free as a mp3 at the time you place your order.
Posted by steve on February 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am | Add Comment
In this, the first of two podcasts, The Milk and Honey Band frontman Robert White gives you a fascinating insight into the influences and inspirations behind the recording of their brand new album DOG EARED MOONLIGHT.
The album is released on 9th March, so go to the Ape store now where you can pre order your CD and get a FREE digital copy of the album to download straight away.
The single ‘Disappear’ will be available FREE to download from 23rd February.
The Making Of Dog Eared Moonlight pt1 [14:21m]:
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Posted by steve on February 12th, 2009 at 7:30 am | 4 Comments »
Watch the video of the song ‘Disappear’, the forthcoming free single available from this site from 23rd February. One of the many highlights from the new album Dog Eared Moonlight released 9th March.
Frontman Robert White say’s ‘We wanted to do something very simple that actually resembled us playing the song as we would play it in rehearsal. So what better way than filming it where we rehearse… it looked a little too realistic until we made it black and white and zapped it through the ‘Anton Corbijn Filter’ and suddenly it looked quite moody and posh.’
The video was shot and directed by Robert and Jan and edited by Robert.’
Posted by steve on February 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am | 1 Comment »
