Microscopics

Everyday for the next week or so we’re going to be posting quotes from fellow electronic musicians about Gas 0095.

Silver Apples were one of the pioneers of electronic music and atonal arrangements, experimenting with oscillators (named The Simeon) on their first two albums in 1968 and 69. They were recently quoted by Portishead as being a major influence on their recent and excellent ‘Portishead: Third’ album, and you can see the heavy influence with their video embedded below.

Simeon sent us this poem he wrote about Gas 0095

Mondrian discovers Soyuz.
Leger in slo mo.
Minotaurs lie in ambush
while strawberry felons
make ritual pilgrimages
to the altar of Sekhmet.
Turner lying low.

Mondrian discovers Soyuz.
Hannibal Lester whispers
sweetly in your eyes.
Kramers Kandy Kitchen.
Freudian orthodontics.
Cezanne celebrates ooze.

Simeon (Silver Apples)

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Silver Apples – ‘Oscillations’ and ‘Seagreen Serenades’ (1968)

Simeon will be playing festivals and concerts across the globe in 2010 including the Field Day Festival in London’s beautiful Victoria Park and dates in the UK and Europe to follow. See silverapples.com for more.

Many thanks Simeon!

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