Danny Barnes - Barnjo and Bass Guitars
Max Brody - Drums, Noise Mash-ups, Horns, Keyboards
Recorded at Frumunda Studio, Shoreline, WA 2015-16
Composed, Performed and Produced by Test Apes
(c) 2017 TEST APES
(p) 2017 FESTIVE DUDS MUSIC/BMI
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Over this last year Danny and I decided that our next album should be one where we eventually play all of the songs live. THIS IS NOT THAT ALBUM. We're still working on that one...
We are an experimental couple of guys who can go into a studio and use the studio itself as a tool & layer together something or jam and edit something together. We've done that a bunch; it sounds just fine recorded, but then translating to a live setting...maybe, maybe not. In fact, that's basically what the songs on this album are--a few studio experiments and jams that we kind of had laying around from the last few years. Orphans...until now.
We have the majority of our next album written, but not recorded. And since things are kind of moving slowly, we figured April Fool's Day would be a good day to set loose a little studio nugget, "CHICKEN PIE VORTEX".
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I can't stop listening to Maintain. First time I heard it was performed with Jeff Austin Band and it was an instant favorite. It is a really great album for zoning out. It's like floating in the ocean past the breaking point, where the waves lift you but submerge you at the same time. Marisa Muldoon
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Weirdo combo of banjo pickin' and guttural, primordial synthbass-beats. I always tilt my head to one side a bit, stick my tongue in my cheek, and groove to this with a kind of breezily defiant and good-natured feeling in my step. Alex Alexander