SILVER APPLES 1st LP + POSTER NM ELECTRON. MASTERPIECE

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Apr 25, 2008 Sold Date

Apr 18, 2008 Start Date

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SILVER APPLES

Silver Apples LP

Original 1st pressing w/ sticker & reflective cover
+ full color souvenir poster
Kapp Records KS-3562 USA
Release date 1968

MEGA RARE RECORD !!!
CLASSIC EXP. ELECTRONIC !!!

INCREDIBLE CONDITION AFTER 40 YEARS
COVER & POSTER NEAR MINT
(small ringwear, NO cut hole or strong damage, clean copy !)
VINYL NEAR MINT

Silver Apples were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom. According to their first LP liner notes, their unique sound came from “nine audio oscillators piled on top of each other and eighty-six manual controls to control lead, rhythm and bass pulses with hands, feet and elbows”. Simeon devised a system of telegraph keys and pedals to control tonality and chord changes, and reportedly never learned to play traditional piano-styled keyboards or synthesizers. Although complex, their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well. They have influenced everyone from Kraftwerk, Spacemen 3, Suicide, and Laika to only name a few.

Here's a short history of the band:

The Silver Apples made electronic music in a rock music idiom in the late 1960s. The name may have been influenced by the album Silver Apples of the Moon, a 1967 electronic composition created by Morton Subotnick on the Buchla synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. That album title came in turn from the W. B. Yeats poem. They disbanded after two records, and then reformed in the late 1990s. The initial group consisted of a duo: Simeon, on an instrument also called a "Simeon" (a homemade synthesizer) and vocals, with Dan Taylor on drums, and was formed in 1967. The Simeon (according to notes on the duo's self-titled 1968 debut LP) consisted of nine audio oscillators piled on top of each other and eighty-six manual controls to control lead, rhythm and bass pulses with hands, feet and elbows.

They released their first record, Silver Apples, in 1968, and from that released a single, "Oscillations". The following year, they released their second LP, Contact and toured the United States. They were going to release a third record in 1970, but their record company folded, leaving them stranded.

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