Scream Geronimo and Take a Ride with the Space Apaches

Space Apaches rock the House like a psychedelic hurricane. What you get here is a combination of raw rock power—great vocals (a cross between Bon Jovi and Clapton), excellent screaming guitars and ripping riffs, powerful drumming, and some fine but not overbearing keyboard work.

This is a band I’d find hard to put in a box. Heavy tracks peppered with a couple of mid-tempo numbers, songs with a funky groove, and even some Allman Brothers references make this a tasty album with a lot to offer.

What I really like is the nod to classic rock throughout the performance. This is an album equally valid today as it would have been in the late 70s.

Some of the extended jams feel like Santana at times.

The songs are well constructed and sound like they’d be right at home on classic rock radio. I’d turn them up at a party. Stand-out tracks for me include the riff-driven  “A Song for the Rest of My Life,” “In My Mind,” “I Am the Six O’Clock News,” and the extremely bluesy and catchy “Smile,” which the band released as a video.

If you’re looking for band that hasn’t forgotten what it is to crank it up with some blues-based, out of control, funk rock stock, you need to grab the latest album “Smokin’ Voyages” by Space Apache. These guys are the real deal and here to seal the deal with this release.

Websites:
Space Apaches Website: www.spaceapaches.com

Space Apaches YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhXOG_TOtDqs_7QzfYFCKw

Space Apaches SoundCloud Channel: https://soundcloud.com/space-apaches

Facebook Space Apaches:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Space-Apaches/280254098672450?ref=hl

Twitter: @spaceapaches

Instagram: https://instagram.com/spaceapaches/


Music Video Links:
Smile – Unlisted Preview Link: https://youtu.be/a3kT4NNuqC0
In My Mind - Unlisted Preview Link: https://youtu.be/8PVHjBkh7mw
Empty – Unlisted Preview Link: https://youtu.be/1u-cxactZO8
Maybe – Unlisted Preview Link: https://youtu.be/16H7eFuX8qk
Sunrise – Unlisted Preview Link: https://youtu.be/ts4fpVRoMpY

Members/Instruments:

Drums: Jim Arrendell

Bass: Rob Geisler

Key/Piano/Guitar: Aaron Price

Guitar: Andrew Reed

Guitar: Tom Leiner

Bio:

The Space Apaches create music that makes you feel good! Authentic music, recorded more like Steely Dan albums than contemporary productions. The Space Apaches is composed of talented Asheville, NC session (studio) players that put together really cool, meticulously-crafted rock music fused with a “spaced out” country vibe. The songs are upbeat and take you to a place of “feeling great!” They even do a few cool covers like “Just Dropped In” and a gothic rendition of “Ghost Riders in the Sky” guaranteed to increase your IQ algorithmically! One listen reveals the truth… Whoa!

The Space Apache’s primary objective is that of recording. As studio players, it is the work done in this setting that produces timeless recordings that can be enjoyed forever (Or as long as one is living on this plane with electricity!). The band members plays out a great deal with other artists, separately and in various combinations. However, a Space Apaches live performance event is an EVENT!  Virtually every aspect of the “experience” is meticulously considered…and it is this care that makes the joining of this combination of energies so magical!

Moanin' at Midnight

Moanin' at Midnight: The Howlin' Wolf Project by the Tomas Doncker Band is a great find. These guys do these tunes justice. Blues the way it was meant to be played. Soulful, moaning vocals and thick, blistering guitar licks make this an album. I'd like to be able to point to one or two tracks that really support this album, but check it out, there isn't a track that doesn't support it. These guys came to play the blues and they do it like the masters.

A collection of Howlin' Wolf stuff done the Tomas Doncker way. I like it. Any fan of the blues will want to add this to his collection.

The production is brilliant---modern without stealing anything from the integrity of the music. The guitar tone is wicked. I ran through the album once and immediately listened again, closing my eyes and soaking up the beauty of the licks. I mean, it all comes back to this one way or the other, the blues, and Tomas and company simply show us why.

If you're looking for classic blues you know and love with a slightly different voice, give Moanin' at Midnight: The Howlin' Wolf Project a listen. You will not be disappointed.

Tomas Doncker Band:
Tomás Doncker-Lead Vocals,Guitars
David Barnes-Harmonica,vocals
Nick Rolfe-Keyboards,Vocals
Josh David-Bass,vocals
James Dellatacoma-Guitar
Mike Faulkner-Drums
Damon Duewhite-Drums
Mark Henry-Sax

1-Evil
2-Killing Floor
3-Back Door Man
4-Moanin' At Midnight
5-Spoonful
6-Blind Melon Morpheus
7-Shookdown
8-I Ain't Superstitious
9-Smokestack Lightning
10-Moanin' At Midnight (Ras Jah Ames Dub Mix)

 Bio:
As a prime mover on New York's downtown "No Wave" scene in the early 1980's, Tomás Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions, Defunkt, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz and many more. Eventually he went international, touring and recording in Japan with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, and producing studio and songwriting sessions with Boosty Collins, Yoko Ono, Grammy nominated Reggae vocal group The Itals, and Grammy-winning producer Prince Charles Alexander, to name just a few. Since then, Doncker has continued to work with an A-list of iconic artists including Ivan Neville (on his solo album “Thanks”), Bonnie Raitt, Meshell Ndegeocello,  Living Colour  lead singer Corey Glover,  former P-Funk keyboardist Amp Fiddler, 2013 Grammy award nominee Shamekia Copeland, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.

In 2010, Doncker performed for the first time in China as a headlining act at the Shanghai Folk Festival, and in front of an audience of over 100,000 as part of the Shanghai World Expo. His latest work as a singer/songwriter and producer embraces a broader musical vision that he likes to call Global-Soul, drawing influences from numerous sources, including East and West Africa and the Caribbean. He also frequently collaborates with legendary Grammy Award winning Producer/Bassist Bill Laswell, and his ongoing "Power Of The Trinity" project was featured on CNN on November 27, 2012 (Jimi Hendrix' birthday).

This summer Tomás will be releasing the full length “Moanin' at Midnight:  The Howlin’ Wolf Project” album. Developed during a critically acclaimed run at NYC SummerStage during the summer of 2013 (and directed by award winning director Alfred Preisser), this project is now being shaped into a multimedia performance concert.

 Music video links: "Spoonful"-http://youtu.be/o6kvUofzgeE
"Shook Down"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utro4itpAuo

Artist contact: E-Mail: Robin Black @ TrueGrooveRecords1@gmail.com
Press contact: james@independentmusicpromotions.com


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