The Battery Apple Trees

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2006
Band Website: www.archive.org/details/YearOfTheB.a.t.-ASide
Band Members: All tracks written, arranged, produced, dreamt, played and sung by The Scribbletooth & The Okinawa Kid

Representing the feminine energies : The Scribbletooth AKA MotherFunk............. (with guest vox on The Flies Away courtesy of The Stanground Panda AKA BitzNTings)

representing the male energies : The Okinawa Kid AKA The Boy BadChi ...........with guest vox courtesy of the amazing Mr Devine AKA Day Glow Joe.....

And on M.C. duties we're proud to have worked with the legendary Localised spitter MR MIXY guesting on the epic slow funk stomper The Flies Away.......check him out at www.myspace.com/mixy86

the grandest THANKS also to the noodle clapping, bomb munching, dark matter juggling, studio samurai, Mr Harry AKA The Harold AKA Dr Stumble McMumble who was there to provide us with random studio guidance and to plug things into bits and pieces that we were too afraid to touch.....

& not forgetting the next level / next generation, The Foetal Funkateer, AKA Monkey Tortoise Human Monkey Girl AKA The Ella Mae.................

With many friends always around to throw in their own dazzling rays.........(with a BIG shout-out to all the other musicians, singers, beatboxers and beatheadz that have ever jumped into the warm waters of Planet Battery Apple Tree.....you know who you are....THANKYOU!!!!)

Influences: Send me your track

In no particular order: Claude Debussy, Brian Wilson, People Under The Stairs, Marvin Gaye, The Ruthless Rap Assassins, Alpha, John Coltrane, Motorcaster, Public Enemy, Stevie Wonder, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Chubb Rock, Porno For Pyros, Biz Markie, Stereolab, Fela Kuti, The Beatles, Voice, Henryk Gorecki, Verity Sharp & Fiona Talkington, Gangstarr, Marc Bolan, Donald Byrd, The La's, Aruna Narayan, The Magnetic Fields, Mel Torme, Muddy Waters, Woody Guthrie, Delicatessen, Prince Paul, Lynn Collins, Amar, Ronny Jordan, Pablo, Wai Wan, Jadell, 808 State, Jill Scott, LAL, K.D. Lang, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bows, DJ Cam, PTR Recordings & Moonstarr, Deus, Billy Holiday, Tinariwen, Lady B, Funky Four Plus One, West Street Mob, James Brown, Ohio Players, Sly & The Family Stone, Nick Drake, Bahamadia, Loius Armstrong, Maurice Ravel, Charlie Mingus, Ice Cube, DJ Krush, Kool G Rap & Polo, Diamond D, Showbiz & A.G., Earthling, The Mar-Keys, Hijack, London Posse, Black Heat, Little Richard, Quannum Collective, Wah Wah Collective, Jagjit Singh, Floetry, Luscious Jackson, Ursula Rucker, Horace Silver, Joni Mitchell, John Barry, The Velvet Underground,

Broadcast, Ella Fitzgerald, Martina Topley Bird, The Herbaliser, Lewis Parker, Dembo Konte, Malang Mane, Mansour Seck, Art Blakey, Fila Brazillia, 4Hero, New Kingdom, Dee Felice Trio, Biosphere, George Butterworth, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Ultramagnetic MC's, De La Soul, Eddie Palmiera, Ravi Shankar, The Nextmen, KRS-One, Eric B & Rakim, Herbie Hancock, Goldie, Pete Rock, Mongo Santamaria, Hank Williams, The Beach Boys, Edwin Starr, David Bowie, John Lee Hooker, Cymande, Ray Charles, Dean Parrish, Jackie Wilson, Breakestra, Omar, Chuck Chilla, Ramsey Lewis, Tears For Fears, Stanley Turrentine, The Meters, Slade, Funkadelic, T-Rex, Grant Lee Buffalo, Radiohead, Henry Mancini, Emergency Room, Ugly Duckling, Blackalicious, Led Zeppellin, Ice T, K.M.D., The Goats, Marlena Shaw, Norman Whitfield, Bjork, Open Souls, Alice Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Push Button Objects, Kate Bush, Kay Starr, Betty Hutton, Jones Girls, Donovan, Joni Mitchell, Yma Sumac, Vicki Carr, Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Band, Zacks Nkosi, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, New Cross Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Thompson, Dr Mo'Licious & The Funky Truckers, Rodney P, Comptons Most Wanted, Bushwick Bill, Caveman, Edith Piaf, Tim Buckley, 3DM, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Pastels, Buckshot LeFonque, Spiritualized, Xavier Cugat, Earl Bostic, Morphine, The Ramones, Blondie, The Lovin Spoonful, Clinic, Virginia Rodriguez, Mulligan & O'Hare, Creme Brulee........and any music you can think of that soothes you to a smile or to a sleep, to a wild or to a leap....!
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Record Label: unsigned and underground
Type of Label: Indie