Apollo Sunshine’s New Album

Apollo Sunshine To Release Shall Noise Upon September 2

Apollo Sunshine

Shall Noise Upon, set for release on September 2, 2008 on the Headless Heroes label, is the third full-length album from Apollo Sunshine. Recorded during the summer of 2007 in the Catskill Mountains, in a house inhabited by spirits (and next door to the home of the original Uncle Sam), the album sees multi-instrumentalists Jesse Gallagher, Sam Cohen and Jeremy Black weaving through a multitude of styles (psych-pop, groove-funk, cowboy songs, samba/tropicalia) with assured fluidity and inspiration. This is not a band searching for their sound; they have crafted an awesome mix of original material that celebrates the journey through darkness and light.

Surrendering themselves to the collective head-space and transformative alchemy of Apollo Sunshine and with help from their friend and co-producer, Quentin Stoltzfus (Mazarin), Shall Noise Upon is an illumination of love in a world of “dangers”- real and false. The CinemaScopic arrangements on the album couldn’t have been realized without recruiting a parade of musical friends including: Drug Rug, Edan, Tulsa, Viva Viva, and White Flight. The result is a timely collage of lush instrumentation: drawn from home-made samples and fieldrecordings to singing bowls and jaw harp. The sounds on Shall Noise Upon come together in an impressionist tour of electrified music.

The band is already recreating the depth of these new studio recordings live. That may seem hard to pull off, but for anyone who’s ever seen Apollo Sunshine, maniacally switching instruments, producing an extraterrestrial sea of tones, this is where they shine the brightest. Over the last few years they’ve toured with Apples In Stereo, Dr. Dog, and They Might Be Giants, Toots and the Maytals and performed at Bonnaroo, Langerado, and Sasquatch. This summer they’ll be appearing at the Wakarusa Festival in Lawrence, Kansas and the 2008 Wireless Festival in London.

There is an impression you get from an amazing mix, where distinct parts add up to a unified feeling; and with each play, the range of sounds grow more connected to each other. It’s these gifts, “albums” traded among friends that inspired Shall Noise Upon. It will have you believing in love, in a world both dangerous and beautiful.

Shall Noise Upon Track List:
1. Breeze
2. Singing To The Earth
3. 666_ The Coming Of The New World Government
4. Shall Noise Upon
5. Brotherhood Of Death
6. Happiness
7. We Are Born When We Die
8. The Funky Chamberlain (Who Begot Who)
9. Wolf Frog White
10. Money
11. The Mermaid Angeline
12. Green Green Lawns Of Outer Space
13. Honestly
14. Coyote Hearing
15. Fog And Shadow
16. Light Of The World

TOUR DATES
06/05/08 Thu Wakarusa – Clinton Lake State Park Lawrence, KS
06/26/08 Thu 12 Galaxies San Francisco, CA (w/ Big Light)
07/04/08 Fri Hyde Park London, UK
08/08/08 Fri The Beachcomber Wellfleet, MA
08/09/08 Sat The Beachcomber Wellfleet, MA