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.......
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
In no particular order: Claude Debussy, 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, Edward Elgar, 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....!
The Battery Apple Trees arrived on earth in their interplanetary beatcraft in January 2006, many, many, many miles from their home on Planet Battery Apple Tree.
OUR FIRST FULL LENGTH L.P. IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD.....
.....all 16 tracks for FREE!!!....
all you have to do is click onto each one of our top 16 "friends" below to download all 16 tracks.......(apologies, because at the moment it seems that the good folks at Myspace have disabled the download option in everyone's player.....so to get your free copy READ ON!!!)
If you'd prefer a sparkly, spangly, freshly minted C.D. with hand crafted inlay/poster, we'll be more than happy to send you a copy....all you'll have to do to get your FREE copy is send us a blank c.d. (in a c.d. case please) with a stamped, self addressed envelope, and we'll do the rest.......just drop us a message and we'll give you more details on where to post to etc etc etc.....
The Battery Apple Treesians are forever grooving, forever eating raspberry fairtrade chocolate cake, forever flying, forever yowling, forever laughing, forever shouting, forever asking why, forever chewing peanut butter sarnies, forever building, forever banging out the beatz, forever spreading the word, forever spreading the love, forever gurgling, forever giggling, and out in the woods where the winds are whistling thickly.....the Rinky Dinks are always out on parade.....
They're currently somewhere deep under ground, burrowing for beats and melodies and new sounds at the legendary invisible BreadBox Studios.....where they recorded their first full length L.P. with random Studio Guidance from the Scourge of the Seven Seas and world wide electro-vagabond, the studio samurai Mr Harry.....
DALILA ALI RAJAH B-DAY BASH Host: Kimberly Davis Location: HERE 696 N Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 US View Map | When: Friday, October 10, 9:00PM Phone: 682-551-0290 Your invited to celebrate Dalila's B-Day BASH. Come by and buy her a drink, give kisses, hugs and for ONE night only....lap dances.
G'day fellas. Well...new album leak confirmed...still baking in the oven, gas mark6...out in 4 weeks, then iced top and smarties and those tiny sweet jelly things.
Beware of Everything is a truly inspired extraveganzic piece of work guys!...love the vocals...reminds me of....er, soft fruit cake with big sultanas....yes.
Thanks for the add, glad you're enjoying what I've been up to
4teenth
PS Keep checking back for new tunes and stuff, especially on the 14th of each month. And if you want to be added to my mailing list to get free stuff and various other goodies email me something to 4teenth@4teenth.co.uk
Love those trax you battery people....I tried listening to silences inbetween notes...weirder than floating onion bhajies :) Fancy a symbiotic jam at The Onion somtime[one minus the 12 bar bit....]? Hope all is well with you. Sven Satorius xxx
