silver apples, can

some words on the silver apples and can:

the silver apples are really interesting. their music is really noisy, i mean has weird sounds... they could be distracting, or even unnerving like the beeping in bauhaus's "spy in the cab," but they are really just interesting and fun. you can kind of think about them or not.
apparently they are named after Morton Subotnick's work "Silver Apples of the Moon,"
which i think came out just a year before the Silver Apples' "Contact" record.
they are kind of like an east-coast answer to the 13th floor elevators (who feature the ironically space-age sound an amplified jug), with a little bit of a jefferson aeroplane sound. this is a band that must have been familiar with john cage, based on their incorporation of "found sounds".

the instrument making those weird sounds is some sort of homemade hand-held synthesiser.

silver apples interview: here




can has recently become one of my favorite bands. when i first started listening to them, somebody told me that they were swedish, so for a while i was describing them as a "swedish psychedelic jazz-punk band." well, not only did it turn out that they were actually german, but the singer after their first record was japanese. listen to them.