Apes

The debut Birdman release for the Washington, DC quartet, contains three stories from the beyond told to the band’s blind weaver, Maximilla.  Tapestry Mastery presents six mind-numbing songs, more bombastic, fertile and charismatic than any Apes release to date.  They rip it apart live with their signature Keyboard-Bass-and-Drum grooves and singer Paul’s sheer intensity.  Tapestry Mastery finds the Apes creating a record equal to their live show.  

APES ARE: Erick “Jackie Magik” Jackson (Bass), Amanda “Majestic Ape” Kleinman (Organ), Jeff “Ronald Wolf” Schmid (Drums), and Paul “Count 101” Weil (Vocals).

*Produced by Trans Am cohort Jonathan Kernel

The have released two records for the wondrous FrenchKiss Records, “The Fugue In The Fog” and “Oddeyesee,” and the self-produced epic “Street Warz” on Planaria Recordings.

APES are not your average band in sound or in concept.  They compose songs around drawings they make and compose drawings around stories they imagine, stories that would burn green into the eyes of Philip K Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ray Bradbury.

APES have secured their live reputation during their multiple trips around the US and Europe.  Their show, this “brutal cudgel,” is a lightning blitz of sexual tension and assault. 

Already played with: Les Savy Fav (tour), Mars Molta (tour), Black Keys, Mudhoney, Datsuns