From the veiny rivers of melancholy to the craggy rocks of disturbance, from the glaciated deserts of bleakness to the vast oceans of longing, from the lightless chasms of despair to the highest peaks piercing a bright sky - you can't put your finger on an emotional map and get certainty about the place and the setting the music of Golden Apes will bring you to. It is all in there and on opposite poles at the same time, an atlas shaping and changing with every sound that enters your ears, with every syllable that enters your head. Trojan harmonies ...

And from their debut "Stigma 3.am" (2000) to their highly acclaimed album "Kasbek" (2019) up to their latest musical sign of life, the single “Satori” (2021), Golden Apes manage to elude any kind of tangibility, deny any stylistic definition by ignoring longitudes and latitudes, measurements and guideposts. Post Punk, Guitar Wave, Goth Rock – it is all in there…and on opposite poles at the same time.

It is the sound that navigates, an atmosphere that dictates the needle of the compass and meanwhile the band seem to step back behind the music like being messengers only, delivering the map that outlines the horizon only, painting the detailed scenery of all the places that may scare or shelter you…all the rivers and all the deserts…

Cast: Peer Lebrecht – words, music, keys Christian Lebrecht – Bass Gerrit Hassler – Guitars Frank Flenz – Guitars Joe Tyburn – Drums

Discography: Stigma 3:am (2000) Thalassemia - Yesterday And Other Centuries (2001) Helianthos And The War (2003) Structures – The Inner Scars (2004) The Geometry Of Tempest (2007/Shadowplay Records) Denying The Towers Our Words Are Falling From… (2010/Echozone) Riot (2010/afmusic) The Langsyne Litanies (2014/afmusic) MALVS (2016/afmusic) Kasbek (2019/Aenaos Records) Satori (Single – 2021/Icycold Records)