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| photo by divya srinivasan |
"The fluttering
wings of the Gemini Butterly always just on the edge of hearing, the
Apes, driven by the desire for new sounds promised by the green eyed
insect - its two heads rumoured to possess visions of the world past
and future - embark on a voyage down the river winding through the
varied environs of their land" - The
Apes
When The Apes first emerged
from the the wet, miasmic swamps of Washington DC, they were charging
rock and roll guerillas. Baroque keyboards crashed over the top of
their driving rhythm section. In 2002 they released "The Fugue
in the Fog" on French Kiss and toured once across Europe with
Les Savy Fav and The Mars Volta and then again across the UK by themselves.
Before they started to write their new album, they were visited by
a large green eyed insect. The insect bore gifts of new riffs. A
new sound rode into Ape-town. Infused with the psychedelic sounds of
San
Francisco around 1967, the Apes continue to rock, but in a wyrd way.
Erick Jackson's burning, fur-lined bass growls, Amanda Kleinman's
horny and celestial organ howls like a banshee, Jeff Schmid plays drums
with
an iron-chest-of-cocaine and Paul Weil plays ring master to this
circus of the surreal. |