Album Notes

If you're looking for the perfect party music, Jungle Gems is the CD for you. Sixteen tracks of tropical, tribal, Bermuda-Triangle rock.

You know that vacation you fantasize about every day at work? APE has made the soundtrack for you. That trip to the Islands. That Mexican weekend. That Carribean getaway. It's exotic. It's mysterious. And it's so... damn... fun.
Let the Tiki rhythms on Jungle Gems bring out the sensual simian in you!

WARNING: Listening to Jungle Gems may result in the consumption of multiple Mai-Tais. APE urges you to drink responsibly. Please do not attempt to guide an outrigger canoe while listening to this CD.

ARE YOU READY TO GO APE?

OK. So you've got your aloha shirt, your bongos and your shades. You know what this music's all about. But who is APE?

APE is a six-piece Exotica Rock band from San Francisco

APE is the only band in the world that features a live Tiki Carver, the hatchet-swinging CRAZY AL!

APE has headlined such venues as the HARD ROCK HOTEL in Las Vegas, the TIKI OASIS Festival in Southern California, and the HUKILAU Fest in Florida with SUPERSONIC GUITAR LEGEND Billy Mure

APE's debut CD, "JUNGLE GEMS", on Simian records, is available worldwide at CDBaby.com

APE combines the sounds travellers associate with the places they long to be: Hawaii, Tahiti, Mexico, The Caribbean. If the film "Endless Summer" were a band, it would be called APE.

APE formed amidst the rocky shores and crashing waves of San Francisco's windward side in 1998. Eric Rindal had already successfully circumnavigated the world of instrumental surf music with his band The Swami's, but now he was restless. Like Thor Heyerdahl in Kon-Tiki, he set out upon a journey across the musical ocean, in search of adventure. For crew he signed on tiki carver Crazy Al, shameless pineapple fondler Mitch Tobias, fellow ex-Swami (and now leader of the Badass Chickenbones) Lane, exotic drummer Kevin Woodhouse, and Hawaiian steel & uke nut Frank Novicki (of the Waikiki Steel Works). Together they created the unique sound and look of APE.

APE makes a lot noise. Here's who and what:
ERIC RINDAL - Hawaiian steel guitar, ukulele, vocals
FRANK NOVICKI - Guitar, ukulele, Hawaiian steel guitar
KEVIN WOODHOUSE - Drums, percussion
LANE - Bass guitar, vocals, bongos
MITCH TOBIAS - Guitar, vocals
CRAZY AL - Tiki-carving, lead vocals, coconuts and bamboo

For the past nine years, APE has been providing audiences with one of the most unique entertainment experiences in the world. Want APE at your next luau?
Put any monkey at your keyboard and have him type: apetheband@aol.com