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You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, you'll dig it.... So ran the MC's introduction to a Silver Apples concert in San Francisco in 1968. This enigmatic duo, armed only withpercussion, vocals and an early synthesiser, are often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake, bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W B Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the simeon) which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of secondhand electronic junk.
he band's eponymous first album, released on KAPP in 1968, enjoyed a 10-week stay in Billboard's Top 100 list, and the album's first track, Oscillations, made the Top 10 list in numerous cities around the US. The music critics loved them. What's so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment commented one. Contact, the band's second album, appeared in 1969 and such was the Silver Apple's recorded popularity that a national tour was quickly organised. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeon's banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor, and such was the level of Simeon's growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the album's opening track, You And I, more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when KAPP folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the knitting factory. Again, the critics were unanimous.
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