The Apples are impressively international, with band members hailing from Tel Aviv, New York, Jerusalem and Haifa. The nine piece band play funk, jazz and groove and include a drummer, bassist, four brass players, two DJs and a sound console operator.
"Each member of the band has a different musical background so The Apples is a great opportunity to bring it all together,” says DJ Erez Todres.
The decks, horns, bass, drums and effects ensemble formed in 2002. Students at Jerusalem’s Rubin Academy of Music joined with Southern Tel Aviv’s burgeoning underground scene and Haifa’s creative jazz/ethno mentality and together began exploring spontaneous, groove-based, jazz flavoured danceable improvised music.
Turntable king Ofer Tal says: “Funk is the grounding behind what we do as a band but we try to involve other influences and humour is also really important to us. People always come up to us after our shows and tell us they can see from our performance that we really enjoy what we do out there on stage.”
As interest in the band grew, jams became parties, became events, became international tours. The band’s Attention! LP and single (2006) led to London-based Freestyle Records, through which in 2007 the band released their notorious version of Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name Of, followed by the Buzzin’ About LP (2008), and The Power EP (2009).
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