The Golden Apples of the Sun

Radio Show – 30 October 2022 – Episode 600

Claude Mono (2022):

This weekend is exciting as I get to curate Episode 600 of The Golden Apples of the Sun Radio Show. So for an appropriately low-key and lo-fi celebration, and as I was lucky enough to be there, I will slide back to 2011 and the birth of the show. It was a different time – a time of freak-folk, neofolk chillwave and glitchtronica – when the Philadelphia psych scene was the centre of the musical universe and Leafcutter John played at The Bakery in Perth. But go back before that and there was the Arthur magazine CD compilation that gives the show its name – curated by Devendra Banhart who also provided the front and back cover artwork, handwritten sleeve notes and art on the disk itself. The sounds will move forward ever so gently with more strange but beautiful otherworldly classics hardly known by anyone except the show’s listeners and presenters.

“Please don’t let what was get in the way of what’s next. Don’t forget that what’s to come hasn’t come yet”.

Devendra Banhart – I Rememner

LISTEN

Show re-stream here

HQ Mixcloud mixtape here (just the music)

PLAYLIST

Theme – Fred Proud reads The Song of Wandering Aengus

Josephine Foster – Little Life – The Golden Apples of the Sun

Leafcutter John – Let It Begin (excerpt) – The Forest and the Sea

Leafcutter John – Seba (excerpt) – The Forest and the Sea

Silje Nes – No Bird (excerpt) n (excerpt) – Ames Room

Silje Nes – Ames Room

Devendra Banhart – Interview Spin Magazine 2004 Excerpt

Six Organs of Admittance – School of the Flower – School of the Flower  

Devendra Banhart – I Remember – Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Walter Schuman – Pretty Fly-Lullaby (Night of the Hunter)

Pamela Franklin – O Willow Waly (The Innocents)

Demdike Stare – Europium Alluminate – Watchbird Alluminate

Jane Weaver – Milk Loop – Loops In The Secret Society

The Hare And The Moon – The Willows – The Grey Malkin

Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol – Tryptych

Speck Mountain – Hey Moon – Summer Above – also found on Bearded Ladies Vol 1

Arborea – Pale Horse Phantasm – Fortress of the Sun

Jonathon Wilson – Desert Raven – Gentle Spirit – 2011

Jonathan Wilson – Desert Raven (Bardoq Remix)

The Owl Service – Interlude 1 – Wake the Vaulted Echo

The Owl Service – Corn Dollies – A Garland of Song

Movietone – Sun Drawing – Day and Night – 1997  – also a 45 out on Domino

Movietone – The Blossom Filled Streets – Peel Sessions

Hydroplane – Song For The Meek – Hydroplane

Northern Picture Library – Untitled 2 – Alaska

Northern Picture Library – Into The Ether – Alaska

Assaf Ayalon – sweet glimpse

Eleventeen Eston – Shoelace Episode 1 (Hugo’s Theme) – Delta Horizon

Eleventeen Eston – Got To Do With It (Eleventeen Eston’s Occupation Dub)

Flamingosis & A Sol Mechanic – Califorium – Brother EP

I Am Robot And Proud – The Satellite Kids – The Catch &Spring Summer Autumn Winter

Atlas Sound – Quick Canal – Logos

Celestial – Endless – I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night 

Viking Moses – Crosses – The Golden Apples of the Sun

“without love life is gone – without life love goes on and on”

Viking Moses

WANT MORE

Golden Apples presents ‘Totally Awesome Psych Folk’

blog post here and mixtape post here

Golden Apples presents ‘Tripping on Birdsong’

blog post here and mixtape here

The Golden Apples of the Sun Compilation – Stereogum Retrospective Review by Sam Hockey-Smith 2013

Golden Apples was an introduction to a new-old sound, but it also re-colored what already existed. For just a minute, it seemed like I’d discovered a new way to be. Real life soon got in the way of that. Relationships and jobs and money and reality all imposed on the hushed utopia of The Golden Apples of the Sun but listening to it now can still transport me right back to a time when simplicity felt like truth.

Full review by Sam Hockey-Smith here

The Golden Apples of the Sun Compilation Pitchfork Review (2004)

Unlike Brian Eno, who kept his No New York sampler to just four acts, the bearded bard here musters a generous spread of 20 diverse freakfolk acts to serve as representatives of the various facets of the underground’s most recent (and most promising) pigeonhole. 

Full review here

Devendra Banhart Interview 2004

Fred Proud’s You Tube channel

Wise words on navigating life from Fred Proud – but he was just talking about navigating his YouTube channel. “don’t just follow the crowd who always go for the big-hitters – ignore all the likes and scan down and see if there’s something that might grab your curiosity” here

Atlas Sound Quick Canal

Atlas Sound (Bradfod Cox) with Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab) – Live at Desert Daze 2019

…. plus Quick Canal from the unmastered leaked Logos that was stolen from Bradford Cox’s Mediafire account. Its about four and a half minutes longer and there are no vocals here