{"id":11397,"date":"2019-04-23T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:10:52","slug":"%ef%bb%bfapollo-suns-dawn-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2019\/04\/23\/%ef%bb%bfapollo-suns-dawn-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffApollo Suns :: Dawn Offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\ufeffby Chris Bryson<\/strong>
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Apollo Suns have been working at taking jazzy psychedelic funk to new heights. The Winnipeg ten-piece that picked up the 2018 BreakOut West Instrumental Artist of the Year award, has some major plans on the horizon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is bigger now,\u201d says Ed Durocher, Apollo Suns bandleader when discussing what\u2019s going on with the band, which includes two summer tours across Canada, prospects of international showcases and festivals, and a recent signing with a US booking agent. The band\u2019s hype has been growing, and a part of it is no doubt due to their energetic live shows where you can find band members and show-goers equally sweaty and smiling.
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The band will be releasing an EP called Dawn Offerings<\/em> in late April this year, and  plans to put out a full-length in 2020. For the EP, Apollo Suns worked with musician and producer Keith Price, who recently moved to New Zealand. The band was able to finish up production through Skype.
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For the new release, <\/em>Apollo Suns also upped the horn section from two on their debut, Each Day A Different Sun,<\/em> to five on Dawn Offerings.<\/em> The band recorded the EP live off the floor with minimal overdubs and all ten players in the same room, which Durocher says lent itself really well to their kind of music.
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\u201cWe were talking about two roads. We were like we either go the Steely Dan road, where you look at every detail so finely,\u201d says Durocher. \u201cOr you go the Neil Young Tonight\u2019s the Night<\/em> road, where you just set up some mics, get everyone in the same room, and then what it is, is what it is.\u201d
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As much as Durocher says he loves Steely Dan, the band went down the Neil Young road. \u201cWe definitely had to do some edits and tweaks, but yeah it was a pretty great experience,\u201d says Durocher. \u201cI was really happy with how everyone performed and played and the attitude. It was a really nice experience in the studio, everyone was very positive and supportive.\u201d
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Over the past two years Apollo Suns\u2019 touring schedule has been getting increasingly heavier, which has enabled the band to sharpen and improve their skills. \u201cThe band gets better, we get tighter,\u201d says Durocher. \u201cYou learn how to listen and really react and have a conversation with the people that you\u2019re playing with.\u201d
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With Apollo Suns\u2019 debut, Each Day A Different Sun<\/em>, Durocher says 80% of the material was written by him. But with the band\u2019s new material, the creative process has become more open and collaborative, although Durocher still has the final say. \u201cIt\u2019s free reign, we try every idea out,\u201d says Durocher. \u201cThrough this new process we were coming up with things, it\u2019s like, well I never would have thought of this\u2014this is so cool. It became so much more collaborative. It sounds more confident, but more precise.\u201d
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Apollo Suns will be hosting two back-to-back EP release shows at The Handsome Daughter with support from J\u00e9r\u00e9mie & The Delicious Hounds and Carter & the Capitals on Friday, April 26, and lounge FM on Saturday, April 27. <\/em>
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