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  The Silver Apples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Silver Apples were a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performed as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising, and drummer Danny Taylor.
They were signed to Kapp Records and released their first record, Silver Apples, in 1968, and from that released a single, "Oscillations".
In the ensuing years the Silver Apples released several albums of new material: 'Decatur', 'Beacon', and 'A Lake of Teardrops'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Silver_Apples   (485 words)

  
 Silver Apples
It's hard to imagine exactly where the Silver Apples took their influence from or the number of electronic bands they've influenced.
Silver Apples formed in 1967 out of the ashes of New York's Overland Stage Electric Band, which featured Dan Taylor on drums, Simeon on vocals and three guitarists.
However, old Silver Apples fans shouldn't expect to hear the original lineup when the band comes to town on Nov. 12.
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 Silver Apples interview
Their first two albums, Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969) are availiable on the one compact disc, released on MCA Records.
I got the name Silver Apples from a poem by Yeats that had hung in my studio since I was 16 years old called "The Song of the Wandering Angus." I have since come to like and admire the early pioneers a lot.
KAPP always claimed Silver Apples was very expensive to market because of its uniqueness, and our promotional expenses were eating up the profits.
www.furious.com /perfect/silverapples.html   (2011 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Silver Apples: Music: Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When the Silver Apples were formed in the mid-60's, Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor had no way of knowing that they were forging the prototype of experimental electronic music.
Silver Apples were absolute pioneers- the band itself was reduced to just two members, so had to drop the conventional element to their band and think of something new.
The something new was an experimental use of oscillators and proto-sampling that puts Silver Apples at the forefront of avant-garde and proto-electronica.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002P7M   (1029 words)

  
 8-Track of the Moment: Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Silver Apples was the eponymously titled debut by one of the earliest and weirdest American electronic-rock hybrids.
Silver Apples' entry in Lilian Roxon's seminal 1969 Rock Encyclopedia asked, "Is this the music of the future?" Judge for yourself.
Silver Apples recently reformed and is making the circuit as part of the current space-rock revival.
www.8trackheaven.com /silverap.html   (183 words)

  
 Ceoltoiri, Silver Apples of the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Silver Apples of the Moon is a solid Celtic recording firmly within the center of the tradition.
The highlights of Silver Apples are the sad songs, the songs where McKenna's expressiveness truly shines and where the harp's and dulcimer's gentleness work best.
Silver Apples is a mellow CD, perfect for quiet winter nights or cool summer evenings.
www.rambles.net /ceoltoiri_silver92.html   (541 words)

  
 The Greatest Band Of All Time - Spinning Magnetic Fluxuations: Silver Apples
"Silver Apples is an organic mechanism composed of the Simeon and the Taylor Drums.
With the help of followers like Spacemen 3 and Stereolab (not to mention talented rip-off artists like Clinic), Silver Apples have reaped the considerable benefit of the 90s' "lost classic" re-issue market, prompting the 1996 reformation of the band (Simeon and a new drummer), with expectedly mixed results.
In 1998, Danny Taylor resurfaced with the tapes from third Silver Apples record, thought lost for nearly thirty years.
www.urbanhonking.com /greatestband/archives/2004/05/spinning_magnet.html   (478 words)

  
 silver apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
SILVER APPLES Beacon Remixed (US 10 trk CD mixes inc Sonic Boom, Snowpony & Salaryman)...
SILVER APPLES I Have Known Love -- (UK 30 track CD V/A - Rocket Girl Compliation)...
SILVER APPLES Split -- (UK 7" very limited 1997 UK tour single w/ WINDY + CARL)...
www.opalmusic.com /a_to_z/silverapples.htm   (93 words)

  
 Silver Apples
Because of his dedication to Silver Apples, and I don't just mean Simeon and Danny, but the whole concept of Silver Apples and what we were trying to do, Barry ended up $30,000 in debt, and that's what led to the break-up of the band.
He declared Silver Apples to be "the New York sound" and commissioned us to write a piece for the event and perform it plus all of our other songs just before touchdown on the moon.
After several rehearsals it became evident that Silver Apples' style of free-form and organically structured music would need to be tamed down a little bit so the actors would know what to do and when to do it at the same times every performance.
www.terrascope.org /silver.html   (13829 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Silver Apples/Contact: Music: Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Taylor was a powerhouse of polyphony and his looping, loping playing is the engine that drives the Apples' experimental music, characterized by snippets of found sound, weird and warbly high-pitched singing, stray banjos, and--most importantly--the battering, buzzing, bleeping beauty of the Simeon synth.
He had mentioned that he was in a band in the late 60's called Silver Apples and that he had, for practical purposes invented the synthesizer.
Silver Apples percussionist Dan Taylor's driving metronomic style is so precise that, if it weren't 1969, you'd swear he was a machine.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002P7M?v=glance   (1713 words)

  
 Simeon
When he was twelve, he was struck by a car, and though he was not seriously injured, his trumpet was crushed and without insurance the family could not afford another one.
Silver Apples performed at the Terrastock II festival in San Francisco and at the Meltdown festival in London in 1998.
Simeon and Danny performed their reunion concerts in the New York area, and it was after one of these, at The Cooler, that their van was forced off the road by another driver, causing the crash that broke Simeon's neck, putting Silver Apples on hold and spelling the demise of Whirlybird Records.
www.silverapples.com /silver_apples_mo_audio_003.htm   (1305 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Silver Apples of the Moon: Music: Laika   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But overall Silver Apples is a very unique musical vision and a brave path to pursue.
"Silver Apples of the Moon" blows into the room from your stereo speakers with "Sugar Daddy," a rushy, sticky, swoony collision of outer space and inner city atmospheres, and continues with the spazzy, jazzy "Marimba Song" and its sexy hook: "butter and honey and milk and water, milk and water...".
Built largely on the keyboards and guitar of Guy Fixsen and the intense drumming of Lou Ciccotelli, the songs on "Silver Apples Of The Moon" do have generally recognisable verses and chorus, but, like on so many great records, these are made incredibly moody.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006AZG?v=glance   (1688 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Silver Apples: biography, discography, reviews, links
I primi brani fanno temere che la regola si ripeta anche per i Silver Apples: queste sono "canzoni" nel senso piu` triviale del termine, costruite attorno a melodie melense e suonate con una prevedibilita` un po' imbarazzante.
Ma secondo me, alla fine dei conti, Albini ha nuociuto ai Silver Apples perche' li ha prodotti "troppo bene": i due dischi per cui divennero famosi erano prodotti in maniera amatoriale, e nessuno mai penso` a far le pulci al canto o all'elettronica.
Legendary cult-band Silver Apples were an experimental duo of electronic keyboards and vocals that predated new wave and synth-pop by almost a decade.
www.scaruffi.com /vol2/silverap.html   (736 words)

  
 АУТСАЙДЕР №4 | Роман Піщалов - 'SILVER APPLES'
Історія нью-йоркського дуету Silver Apples – це історія новаторського гурту, який здавалося б мав всі перспективи стати культовим, впливовим, але таким з певних причин не став.
Платівка “Silver Apples” вийшла у травні 1968 року.
Аж ось у 1994 німецький лейбл TRC у піратський спосіб перевидав їхні перші платівки, а d 1996 англійський лейбл Enraptured випустив ”A Tribute To The Silver Apples” (з вісьма виконавцями), і раптом виявилося, що гурт відомий серед новоявлених американських пост- та дроун-рокерів.
www.autsaider.org /issues/4/sa   (725 words)

  
 New Albion Artists: Morton Subotnick
Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre.
The work which brought Subotnick celebrity was "Silver Apples of the Moon".
In fact, "Silver Apples of the Moon" was used as dance music by several companies throughout the world.
www.newalbion.com /artists/subotnickm   (1006 words)

  
 The Annotated "Silver Apples of the Moon"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In a poem by W.B. Yeats entitled "The Song of Wandering Aengus", a fish just caught by a fisherman turns into a beautiful women with apple blossoms in her hair.
I see that you have explained the link between Yeats and "Silver Apples of the Moon." You might be interested to know that in 1967 Nonesuch Records commissioned Morton Subotnick, the pioneering electronic music composer, to write an electronic piece.
The resulting work -- you guessed it, "Silver Apples of the Moon" -- was the first large-scale piece composed expressly for the LP medium/format.
arts.ucsc.edu /gdead/agdl/appl.html   (236 words)

  
 Gwyneth Walker: The Silver Apples of the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Gwyneth Walker: The Silver Apples of the Moon
The Silver Apples of the Moon uses as text the poem by William Butler Yeats, "The Song of Wandering Aengus." The title of the song is taken from the closing lines of the poem:
Silver Apples is an SSA/piano adaptation of the original scoring for the "Tres Voces" Ensemble of Hartford, CT: Tenor, Countertenor, Baritone and Guitar.
www.gwynethwalker.com /thesilve.html   (146 words)

  
 ICSE2000: Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Carved on our the University Stone: "And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon The golden apples of the sun." from the Song of Wandering Aengus by famous Irish poet, W.B. Yeats.
Also, 'silver apple' is mentioned in the Nursery Rhyme:
I had a little nut tree Nothing would it bear But a silver apple And a golden pear And, what is each child, if not "as precious as a piece of silver" and "the apple of a parent's eye".
www.ul.ie /~icse2000/silvera.html   (173 words)

  
 Suchen Sie: Silver: Apples: Of: The: Moon ?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 eBay.co.uk - Silver Apples, CDs, Christening Gifts, Music items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Silver Apples - 60's electronic garage punk - Suicide
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 Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Made of 14k rolled-gold wire, sterling and argentium silver wire, and semi-precious cut and tumbled gemstones.
Large pieces are $30 if silver, $40 if gold.
Small are $10 across the board, and all tiny ones are $5.
www.jpdurbin.net /silverapples   (75 words)

  
 The Silver Apples Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Silver Apples Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)
This page contains quite a lot of relevant information about The Silver Apples.
More The Silver Apples Page Titles on this Site
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 Silver Apples
Until such time as this posting of "Silver Apples" is objected to, or I am notified that I am breaking some copyright law, it shall remain.
On the bare stone of the wall, she drew patterns with her fingers, patterns that incandesced, each part fading as she worked the next.
In a pouch at her waist the silver apple was heavy and smooth.
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 Silver Apples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In addition to the swirls of racket so enjoyed by many in the Silver Apples fan club, Danny Taylor was one of the coolest drummers in history.
If the first Silver Apples album was a bubbly beepy psych-pop masterpiece, its follow-up is an ugly noisy experimental freakout.
I actually grew up near Decatur, GA (where they recorded this legendary classic) and had I known that Silver Apples were going to use my local facilities to record their only bad album, I'd have burned down the entire town like General Lee did when he stormed Atlanta in the Spanish-American War.
www.markprindle.com /silverapples.htm   (4059 words)

  
 E6 Townhall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
i have been listening to can and silver apples a lot lately and i think i prefer the silver apples.
posted on 8-11-0404 at 12:30 AM Can and Silver Apples are both genius bands, each with a unique sound.
posted on 8-11-0404 at 10:05 AM man, the silver apples are great.
www.e6townhall.com /viewthread.php?tid=2174#pid19388   (183 words)

  
 Silver Apples
The follow-up Decatur appeared in 1998, and was soon joined by A Lake of Teardrops (a collaboration with avowed fans Spectrum) as well as The Garden, the long-unreleased third and final effort from the original Simeon/Taylor partnership.
However, on November 1, 1998, the Silver Apples' van crashed while returning from a New York gig; the accident left Simeon with a broken neck and spinal injuries, casting his continued musical career in grave doubt.
Electronic Evocations A Tribute To The Silver Apples (CD)
www.discogs.com /artist/Silver+Apples   (149 words)

  
 silver apples | of the moon
07.30.05 The grand opening of The Scream Center for the Arts is tonight between 7 and 11 PM, featuring some exclusive Silver Apples items as well as refreshments and live music.
12.11.04 Silver Apples of the Moon items will be available for sale at the third annual Alta Vista House Winter Art Sale, today from noon until 7 PM.
There will also be mulled cider, cookies, and lots of fantastic art, so don't miss it!
www.silver-apples.com   (199 words)

  
 eBay - CD: Silver Apples Of The Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Laika - Silver Apples Of The Moon (1994)
Some of Moonshake's twinkly charm surfaces in the acoustic fallout of drummer Lou Ciccotelli, but Laika's attractive sheen is mostly in Fiedler's mousey vocals, which skit amongst the aural nooks and crannies.
From the chugging drums of "44 Robbers" to the mechanical fizzbeats of "If You Miss" to the spiraling fourth-world Moog funk of "Red River," SILVER APPLES OF THE MOON is a big, juicy byte taken from the a silicon tree.
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 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock SH-SP
Simeon (the simeon, actually a wall full of audio oscillators and signal generators with hand, foot, elbow and knee pedals to actuate them and Dan Taylor (drums) played a proto-electronic industrial rock that would later be refined when rediscovered by the likes of Kraftwerk and others in the '70s.
Silver Lining - Pascal Indelicato (piano & keyboards), Michel Mourachko (bass), Nicolas Mourachko (guitars), Michel Faure (drums, invisible in photo), Thierry Sportouche (vocals and lyrics) and Annie Morel (violin).
Though Silver Lining has had songs on some compilation CD's, The Inner Dragon is their debut album release.
www.gepr.net /sh.html   (14904 words)

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