Bitten by an ape

Music with a banana twist

Can you read Italian?

It is now official.
Next month Bitten by an ape will play at the 11th Rock & Blues Festival in Pontinia, near our hometown in Italy.
Guess how exciting it will be to play alongside people like Sonny Landreth and Jay Farrar & Co…

 
 
Stay tuned for more details.
 
 

Worldwide fame?

Strolling down the streets of Tokyo (Shibuya, for those who know the city), I was quite surprized in finding this very warm encouragement coming from the ape’s Japanese fans.
…Japanese fans?!
I have to say, my gorilla shoes fit the scene very well…

A nice morning ride #2

Seventeen degrees this morning in Dublin, mainly sunny with passing clouds, with virtually no wind: to me that spells b-i-k-e-r-i-d-e!
I take out of the closet my faithful and as of late underutilized Gertude, dig out my mid-season gear and I’m gone for an hour.
Wednesday around noon on countryside roads, almost no traffic, only the whirr [...]

This is not an ape

This billboard was photographed in Milan.
There might be others scattered around the city.
Doesn’t it remind you of something?
 

Below the waterline

Studying music theory, fighting to get those sixteenth notes right on the bass, preparing for my trip to Japan, organising my summer schedule, looking for musicians to play with, cursing against music, making peace with music, struggling with my own passive/aggressive fits, reading, eating mint chocolate.
*munch munch*

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About the ape

…the awareness that we are, in this network, dots crossed by numberless lines; that we wear and present to others different masks at different times – to the point that our sense of identity withers away. The creation of our own escapist universe, which is not less uncertain than reality, but delusionally more manageable. Finally, our relationship with technology, at the same time useful and threatening.…

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