ANT-BEE NeuZzzzz!
March 12, 2011
**************The new ANT-BEE album Electronic Church Muzik was released on February 28, 2011 on Barking Moondog Records. It was completed sometime in the summer of 2009 (i forget the date i received the album from ANT-BEE). The album features guest appearances by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth (GONG), Peter Banks (YES), Jan Akkerman (Focus), Michael Bruce (Alice Cooper) ex-Mothers of Invention members (Zappa), ex-Captain Beefheart's Magic Band members, ex-Utopia (Rundgren), Napoleon Murphy Brock (Zappa/George Duke) and others. I got my copy last week, but i have been too busy to listen to it again and to give it a solid review. If you liked his other albums, and not just Pure Electric Honey, then you cannot go wrong with this album...more to come....
I have not listened to it in a while, but if you are an ANT-BEE fan, it is worth picking up, but it is not Pure Electric Honey or Lunar Muzik. It has its own feel--less Zappa/Beatles/Beach Boys than before, but still classic ANT-BEE aesthetic.
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Here it is, Ant-Bee's decade long work: Electronic Church Muzik is now available for preorder.
it is going to be a limited run, so if you have doubts about not owning it i suggest getting it, if you love/liked his other work and the contributing artists that are on the album
ANT-BEE RADIO SHOW LINK TO MY PAGE ON THIS SITE - NEW SHOW SUNDAY
August 5, 2010
9-10pm EST
There is another Ant-Bee online radio program.
This is what was posted by Billy on his facebook page:
This edition of Glass Onyon's Muzik Bizarre (Thursday 8/5 at 9:00 pm EST) is a special tribute to experimental music artist ANT-BEE, who's first album 'Pure Electric Honey' was released 20 years ago this August. The show will feature new tracks from the forthcoming ANT-BEE CD 'Electronic Church Muzik' (feat. guest appe...arances by Jan Akkerman, Peter Banks, Moogy Klingman, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Michael Bruce, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton and others) as well as tracks from earlier ANT-BEE releases and a couple remixes to boot.
The program can be accessed at www.deliciousagony.com
3/18/2010
1. Electronic Church Muzik is coming... - here is a review
2. a great cover of a Beach Boys suite - Do You Like Worms?/Barnyard
3. a music video of Ant-Bee's cover of The Rolling Stones Child of the Moon on youtube.
12/13/09
Ant-Bee (Billy James) will be on Todd Rundgren Talk Radio promoting his new book A Dream Goes On Forever - The Continuing Story Of Todd Rundgren on Tuesday night 12/15 8:30pm EST. Electronic Church Muzik will probably be released on his website for download early in 2010.
10/30/09
Ant-Bee has released videos of live performances with Mothers of Invention original members Bunk Gardner and Don Preston as well as music videos for his song "The Girl With The Stars In Her Hair" and his Beatlesque psychedelic pop cover of The Rolling Stones B-Side single "Child of the Moon".
CLICK HERE TO GO TO HIS NEWS PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS AND OTHER ANT-BEE NEWS
Ant-Bee also says on his Bizarre News page that he plans to release his new album Electronic Church Muzik on his site for download. i hope that any and all who are interested in Ant-Bee and/or want to hear one of the 5 best albums of 2009 check it out when it gets up on his site. i will post more information about it when it becomes available.
I just recently visited their website and was shocked to discover that Ant-Bee was actually a 60's band. Ironic how Scaruffi's website favors recording dates over release dates but lists Pure Electric Honey as a 90’s record. Despite the album not being released in the 60's, Ant-Bee’s music did achieve some significance durring thier time, that is, unless I read this article wrong. Would it not be fair to say Pure Electric Honey was largely a 60's album even though it wasn't released until 1990? what do you think?
UPDATE:
I've just read a biography about Ant-Bee on Allmusic guide, saying that they actually were an underground band from the 90's, but were emulating music from the 60's. Apparently, the other article I was reading was a joke. Looks like they got me real good there!
I fell for that fake bio on Ant-Bee's site when i first read it. Ant-Bee is not really a band in the sense of the average band like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, or The Doors who had a stable membership. Ant-Bee is just Billy James who has found other performers to perform on his recordings and in public. Now he is less into composing music and focuses his time on publicity for other bands, and occasional books about artists he enjoyed growing up, in particular Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren. And he also has two internet radio shows; the links can be found on his website.