‘Fantasms Magicks and a Raspberry sun’ is the new album from Matt Church and the Green Apples. Matt has been writing and collecting these songs for a while and recording started a while back and has continued up until the last part of 2009. The album is about going to the spaces in between the ‘spheres’ or a place in a self made reality reflecting desire and love and with a humanist concern. Over a few scotches the other night matt was talking about the Jodi Foster movie ‘contact’ where she meets her father at the end of the film on that alternate reality beach or that crazy crazy alternate dimension thing, there was much merriment in the room as matt recalled in his long drawl this movie and laughter abounded freely for the comparison is crazy but there is that crazy beach… Yeah it’s got the way out there vibe, with songs like ‘spinning sands’ finding matt in a strange void on a similar beach talking to a woman from the past that is seemingly omnipotent though is stuck in a ‘between’ dimension and yearns for a time long before and a way back to it. The singer wanting to return with her watching her harness the orb of the sun in her hands. The power of the Sun. The power of Women.
The obvious single is ‘Raspberry Sun’. A ditty of epic proportions with a vocal and guitar existing together singing a melodic tune about a place a long time in the future or past and someone looking back on youth. The Raspberry Sun metaphor is apparent in the artwork too. With Blakes famous watercolour summing up the album in a sense, is god old? Why would god be old? Why did Blake paint the Raspberry (Red) Sun symbolising the power of an elder God? Did he realise that a red giant is an old star, and that our own yellow main sequence Sun is relatively young?
Desire and power are themes throughout and a look at how we shape our own conciousness. Questions on what we don’t know shape the album and give it it’s unique flavour. Enjoy the new Green Apple Band. With drummer Steve linquist and Bassist Kathy Church helping out. Flipping over from the ‘sea peoples’ ridiculous (in that it is oblique in it’s offerings) but critically well received album ‘blue star’ this time it’s the full lyrical musings of matt on display. The Green Apple band was last heard on ‘Daisyworld’ though this Green Apple band is a lot different. Recorded live and in quick takes, matt was looking for a ‘Neil Young Zuma’ aesthetic to the sound, and the band recorded the songs in a similar manner to ‘zuma’, a small room and natural compression from it, not too loud, but loud enough, dry vocals. ‘Flying Fish’ and MARS are the extended guitar solo songs, but don’t be fooled listen closely and you hear the band clicking together dropping and starting like crazy horse, yep the crazy horse aesthetic, the dream matt has been searching for, over the time..the time of the raspberry sun…er. Yeah.
out through eeo records through mgm distribution.the album will come for the first time with lyrics and extended packaging. yep. all the art stuff. until then the artwork is a secret. of sorts. sort of. well maybe not but yeah..secret.
presser!
BUMP Feb 5
god. yeah auzzztrazia fucking hell;..
I must admit that was a bit hard to read without any paragraph breaks and I did not read it all.
but i do look forward to hearing the album.
really? oh thanks so much tokyo69.
sorry bout the stoopid presser.
go here ie my blog if you want to see the front cover.
ahh yeah RULE@! love this record more than any other. totally in love with it. woo hoo!
so when's the launch?
launch? I really aint into launch's I can come down the old bar and sign some copies if you want but I find launches a bit corny. It's an album not a ocean liner.
Fantasms is awesome! well I love it! thanks to dual plover for a special special awesome lovely job and no fuss shit. Just the fucking best. THANKS. seriously these guys RULE.
I have some promos, I have some of you on lists and whatever. If you are unsure and want to be on my list hit me up with a PM for a copy.
peace.
ahh yeah today. ahh yeah today..ahh yeah I see it's today.
Are you gonna play some shows?
maybe, I gotta get us together. hopefully people have some time for all this soon. cos I'm going outta my friggin mind. ..but yeah this year I'm fighting to get out there. soon I'll start whinging and whining and praying that my band give a fuck.
Far out.
haha everyones been so busy with making cash to pay for familys and whatnot. hard to pull people together etc. sometimes it's like you know I feel they don't care n-body cares who cares, I dunno best not ask me today.
I'll try and get the band together. cos you know it's my life and what I do. hopefull the band get it.
but I love the album. best thing I have done. I hope it gets some attention. I know with attention I'll have more firepower to say to the guys HEY! LOOK! ME! ME!
THE BAND! THE BAND!
it's damn fine record. MARS kicks arse.
I might need to have a listen to this.
I'll make sure it comes your way!
myspace?
nah cd send instead Pm deets and the cd comes in the mail like magical mystery cd but not ..er..more like please please me..er no..er the cd comes in the mail. if you want one I sendy you one. I have a stack of promos. er. I mean copys. er the cd. I have a pile to send people.
also you can email me at mcs.church@gmail.com and I'll send you a copy if you don't like PMing here or whatnot.
yep for anyone interested. I like the personal approach thing not cold myspace bit cold for an oldy like me.
and I don't do lists of people for bulk emails either! no shit! simple and straight, no badgering no boulderdash. no silly marketing shit.
thanks..
Awesome. Cheers, man. You still got the address, I reckon...
yeah should do. a pleasure..
cover..I'll start this mail out next day or so. Just gotta get an artline .5 pen to write stuff.
and do this chainsaw work on a block of land and then yeah I'll start mailing out..prolly wednesday or something..sorry for the wait.
first batch of mailouts out tommorrow. loo out for it! got a weird feeling about this record...dunno what that means. lets see!
I left what you wanted for last!
haha AHAHA.
enjoy, it's great. not as good as seven sisters of the pleiades though. but you only turn it on it's head once per lifetime
peace.
ahaha I talk so much shit, but this album is now available on iTunes
I love it. check it out! maybe I shouldn't sell my gibbo!
also available through shops as well jb etc and online etc..