Apell
Beaver Street & Beyond
© 2004 Anthony Pell (634479022371)
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"Amon Tobin going for a Parliament-Funkadelic sound" Critically acclaimed electronic music from innovative down tempo / chill out grooves to industrial breaks using styles as diverse as rock, jazz, funk & dub.
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“Anthony Pell is a crazy one or a genius, or you are both!!” PARIDE POLIMENO - Stillborn Extreme Music Zine (Italy)
Apell is Anthony Pell an Australian, Melbourne based musician creating electronic music incorporating styles from rock, jazz, funk & dub. Apell has been internationally acclaimed as "a tour de force with a creative mind who lives in a world of his own" - Marty Peters RECORDING (Magazine US)
"Beaver Street & Beyond" is Apell's 2nd album featuring down tempo / chill out grooves to industrial breaks. The album varies from the frenetic electronic jazz of "Entertainment Complex" to the heavy dub of "Wrinkle" to the upbeat funk of "Suit Up" & more. “Beaver Street & Beyond” features guest performers from John Dickens on guitar on the surprising flamenco bagpipe groove of "Exciting Soul Cock of the Stirring North" to the sublime vocals of Rachael Hawkins on the smoldering "Tomorrow".
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1 Entertainment Complex
“This has definite Squarepusher influences but manages to carve its own little niche out. Anthony has come up with an interesting track that strays away from the norm quite substantially and features plenty of cool stuff going on to keep you interested…”
www.futuremusic.co.uk
2 Digirap
Heavy industrial rock meets electronica with a strong dub undercurrent featuring phased and twisted guitars.
3 Tim & Tony
“the intoxicating post-rocker Tim & Tony. Slowly unfurling in a chorus of electric and acoustic guitar, I can only imagine it as the theme to a film about two guys with the titular names.” www.inthemix.com.au
4 Summer
“The more middle eastern flow of "Summer", gradually spinning out of control through the inclusion of hip-hop styled drums, is a welcome change of pace from the rest of the disc, and keeps listeners on their toes.” www.neufutur.com
5 Tomorrow
Cinematic song about the future featuring flutes, strings and multilayered dub undertones.
6 Suit Up
““Suit Up” is a speedy, complicated track that is a good example of Apell’s funk sounds, using organs, and drums to great effect.” www.exclaim.ca
7 Wrinkle
Heavy distorted bass dub music featuring Sam Geoghegan's drums and a fantastic trumpet solo. Asian Dub Foundation meets Count Dracula! This tune placed Apell in the final of the Youthweeks RockIT comp for the 2nd year running (2001).
8 U_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e
An example of Schoenberg’s 12 tone music theory in an electronic / breakbeat music!
9 Unorthodox
“"Unorthodox" is literally one of the most solidly named tracks in recent history - thrust on by a backwards-masked track, the only thing orthodox about this track are the smooth, incredibly-arranged drum and synth tracks.” www.neufutur.com
10 Spokes Remix
Industrial tinged breaks remix of the action music from the movie “Spokes”. The distorted guitars are actually acoustic guitars - Nine Inch Nails meets Squarepusher.
11 Lust
More music from the failed film soundtrack. Originally the “baddies” theme, but reworked with Grover J's lustful themes. Featuring brass ashtray drumming with delay in 5/4.
12 Exciting Soul Cock of the Stirring North
““Exciting Soul Cock of the Stirring North”, which boasts a merging of flamenco, Middle Eastern/Indian influences, and the bagpipe, that marries this album with your ears.” www.smother.net
13Crying over a Cut Onion
An ambient Radiohead inspired lo-fi chill out track which was developed from music originally intended for a film soundtrack.
Bio
In 1999 Apell was created to produce music that couldn't be created in a regular band. Apell’s production techniques are inspired by a diverse range of musical influences from rock (U2, Radiohead, King Crimson, Frank Zappa & Jimi Hendrix) to jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Weather Report & John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra) and electronic (Massive Attack, Squarepusher, Unkle & Groove Armada).
Apell’s musical objective is to create innovative & entertaining music that is not just a carbon copy of other electronic music.
Apell has received rave reviews internationally and has been described as “a crazy eccentric genius.” – (Stillborn Extreme Music Zine - Italy)
This musical madness has made Apell a finalist in the Australian National Youthweeks RockIT for 2 years running (2001 & 2002).
Both Apell albums have also gained radio airplay on Melbourne (3RRR & 3PBS) and Australian national (JJJ) radio.
Other milestones include a #5 position on the mp3.com.au dance music charts for the novelty dance track SMS (Deluxe Mix), and the production of a soundtrack for a short film Spokes by Melbourne film director Dean Georgio.
Since 2004 Apell has developed a live act using Ableton Live & Bass Guitar to produce an innovative & exciting version of Apell’s recorded music and has since performed as part of Melbourne’s Fringe Festival and at various Melbourne venues.
Apell is also a member of the Autralian electronic music collective Clan Analogue and can be found on their 2006 Dub compilation "In Version".
Another album is in the works for 2007 and plans to be a reworking/remixing of older tracks, a few new ones and maybe even a cover or two...
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IS APELL IS THE SECOND COMING OF FRANK ZAPPA?
author: J-Sin - Smother.net (US)So what is this sound from down under like? Well it comes in the form of downtempo electronic fare that fuses acid jazz with dynamic and oftentimes voluntary lapses in continuity. Could it be that along with the likes of John Zorn, APELL IS THE SECOND COMING OF FRANK ZAPPA? It just might be worth a casual mention if nothing else. You can hear his past efforts from a variety of straight forward rock outfits emerge on tracks like “Tim & Tony” but it’s the eclectics packed within tunes like “Exciting Soul Cock of the Stirring North”, which boasts a merging of flamenco, Middle Eastern/Indian influences, and the bagpipe, that marries this album with your ears.
CRAZY ECCENTRIC GENIUS - AH!! FINALLY A GREAT DISC!
author: PARIDE POLIMENO - Stillborn Extreme Music Zine (Italy)Directly from Melbourne, Australia and from Beaver, Porter and Victoria Streets arrives Apell, the crazy fine instrumental genius Anthony Pell. "Beaver Street & Beyond" is the album of the CRAZY ECCENTRIC GENIUS Australian composer, and like the title it indicates it this album has been recorded between Beaver Porter & Victoria Streets, in order to indicate that the technology has helped Anthony to produce this disc not having to be fixed to one studio but moving from one studio to the other with a nearby computer! ....Come I said “Anthony Pell is a crazy one or a genius, or you are both!!” “Beaver Street & Beyond” is one of those discs that when you hear it you can exclaim full of satisfaction, "AH!! FINALLY A GREAT DISC!". Yes, why "Beaver Street & Beyond" is such a great disc, A DISC THAT MAKES YOU MOVE YOUR ARSE A, AND THEN NOT, A DISC THAT TAKES YOU TO SOCCER, THEN TO YOUR CRIB, THEN SHAKES YOU THEN IT AMUSES YOU!....there it is "Beaver Street & Beyond"! Anthony Pell labels himself as a simple composer of downtempo electronic music, but I say that apart from being a virtuouso player of guitar, bass, sax, drums and keyboards and also a great fan of music of the most disperate kinds this disc great infuences are all noticed. It passes quickly from fusion ("ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX" IS ENOURMOUS!) to funk, from industrial rock to dub passing the rock of the ' 70s, drum' n' bass, jazz and flamenco.. essì! beautiful! ..'The disc is truly a manna from heaven, a disc for those who love music and for whom love to make music fregandosene(?) of the market or of the kinds. Most advised to anyone who loves music, in every form.
Another top quality Australian electronic release.
author: Warren Wheeler - The Sound MonitorDespite living in a relatively remote area of the world, Australia has always excelled when it comes to electronic music. Be it the numerous Clan Analogue collectives, or the commercial beats of Paul Mac and Infusion, Australian electronics holds a quality considered on par, if not above, the world leaders. Melbourne-based bedroom producer Anthony Pell proved this very point on his debut release in 2001. Gathering praise from his home audience and across the world from such notable on-liners ChainDLK and Apell's debut was a solid concoction of electronica, jazz and rock. On his second album, Apell punctuates those reviews with more solid sequences and introspective movements. Drawing equally from Massive Attack, King Crimson, Moby and Bill Laswell, Beaver Street & Beyond runs the gamut of genres in the space of 13 compositions. Opening with a jazzy 'Entertainment Complex' Apell would sit rather nicely next to a number of Clan artists, whereas 'Digirap' adopts the rock with a strong dub undercurrent. However, it's on the subtler moments ('Tim & Tony' and 'Summer') where Apell excels. Soothing synthetics combine with Latin-inspired acoustic guitar and darkened brass to create a nice epic feel a' la Radiohead. Never the one to rest on the one influence, Apell continues to draw from a range of genres including seventies prog rock, eighties dub nineties hip-hop, and new millennium electronica. Additionally, sparse vocals are employed for effect, including the samples of monk-like chanting and choirs, however the majority of the long-player is vocal free. Another top quality Australian electronic release that quite deservedly should acquire plenty of notice from the national airplay bigwigs.
Wild and completely unbridled electronica.
author: www.inthemix.com.auFrom somewhere in the north-west fringe of Melbourne City emanates the wild and completely unbridled electronica of Apell. While bridled horses run rings around the racecourse nearby, Apell wanders freely through post-rock psychedelia, guitar-tinged electronica, noise, and anything else that catches his fancy. His second album Beaver Street & Beyond opens excellently with the trippy Entertainment Complex, featuring electrolysed organ, trumpets, and saxophone. The opening could be something Danny Elfman would have written for a band; the weirdness factor is right at home with Beetlejuice. A couple of notches down the track list is the intoxicating post-rocker Tim & Tony. Slowly unfurling in a chorus of electric and acoustic guitar, I can only imagine it as the theme to a film about two guys with the titular names. Summer then relaxes the mood and evokes a lazy, hot summer's day. Apell is at his best in these tracks, reminding me of Mogwai and their brilliant 1997 album Young Team. With Exciting Soul Cock Of The Stirring North, it is safe to say that Apell has invented the latest sub-genre of syncopated Scottish flamenco. With the most rockin' beat, it ends the album on a high note before the low-fi epilogue of Crying Over A Cut Onion. Not all of the other tracks meld so well in the context of an album. Featuring some experimentally (read 'intentionally') messy production, tracks such as Tomorrow, Wrinkle, and Spokes Remix are fine by themselves, but seem to pull in their own directions. If you start your journey at Beaver Street, there is no telling where Apell might take you.
Electronically charged jazz...creating the best experience one can have listenin
author: neufutur.comElectronically charged jazz, Anthony Pell (Apell to eir's fans) provides listeners with a rich instrumental backdrop, creating the best experience one can have listening to music. This is not necessarily the music that gets the body moving, but is rather like an illicit drug, opening one's mind to a myriad of new sensations. While instrumental CDs are notorious for becoming monotonous and extremely repetitive after the first few tracks, Apell busts through four tracks with the greatest of ease, and is incidentally the perfect soundtrack replacement for the acid jazz of the Weather Channel (really, I'm not being derogatory - just the smooth, inoffensive tones of Apell are bizarrely fitting). The more middle eastern flow of "Summer", gradually spinning out of control through the inclusion of hip-hop styled drums, is a welcome change of pace from the rest of the disc, and keeps eir's listeners on their toes. It is very seldom that completely computer-arranged drums sound decent on a disc; Apell has made the drum tracks on "Beaver Street & Beyond" so intentionally fake, so otherworldly and with such a fervor that one can't help but be enthralled by the arrangements. "Unorthodox" is literally one of the most solidly named tracks in recent history - thrust on by a backwards-masked track, the only thing orthodox about this track are the smooth, incredibly-arranged drum and synth tracks. Throughout the entirety of the disc, vocals do come into play but Apell has a much more insidious use for them - very rarely will an individual find a vocal track that Apell isn't actively using as a make-shift instrument. Where something like Fluke can be the drugs of electronic music, Apell actually can program and arrange with the best of them and yet make a cohesive album that does not repeat itself. While I could completely see putting this album on before studying or sleeping, there really is not much to grab the interest of someone that has been inculcated to the bells and whistles of popular music. Apell may be trying for commercial success, but where Apell will make eir's killing will be at the jazz places and minor concert halls the world over, where individuals will hook into ey's music and be more actively supporting eir. Apell is a mixture of all the things that are strong in electronic, jazz, and tribal music - where more electronic artists seem to just be incorporating dance or rock into their track, methinks it wouldn't hurt to listen to "Beaver Street & Beyond" a few times. Top Tracks: Summer, Lust
Imagine if Amon Tobin was going for a ’70s Parliament-Funkadelic sound, with les
author: Exclaim (Canada)Australian Anthony Pell takes music, samples and live performances from a wide variety of styles and puts them together to make some funky grooves. Imagine if Amon Tobin was going for a ’70s Parliament-Funkadelic sound, with less of a drum & bass influence. “Entertainment Complex” and “Suit Up” are speedy, complicated tracks that are good examples of Apell’s funk sounds, using organs, horns and drums to great effect. There are also more psychedelic tracks, like “Digirap” and “Wrinkle” with their phased and twisted guitars and “Tim and Tony” with live bass and guitar complementing electronic drums. Tracks like “Tomorrow” and “Unorthodox” have subtle, processed vocals and are very cinematic. Altogether the album has a better than average amount of variety. There is a lot to recommend here, especially for fans of Amon Tobin and other more adventurous electronic musicians who go for big, full sounds mixing live instrumentation and electronics.