Beyond Apollo

The debut album from Winnipeg psychedelic jazz-funk collective Apollo Suns is entitled 'Departures'. It finds the band evolving across new styles and moods, encompassing the shifting tides of the pandemic years. Produced by Ben Kaplan (Bootsy Collins, Five Alarm Funk), 'Departures' is a cinematic journey inspired as much by artists like Goblin, Lettuce, and Frank Zappa as film, TV and video game scores and soundtracks. The band combines classic compositional techniques with synths and electronics, introducing strings, acoustic guitar, grand piano and lap steel into the mix.

Anchored in an optimistic synthesis of classical, folk, rock and electronic music, With Malice Toward None elevates the idea of what it means to be human in the 21st century. Pamela Z artfully deconstructs her folk rock heroes while paying homage to youthful nostalgia and childhood songcraft, while Christopher Theofanidis and Mark Wingate partner to craft a jaggedly ethereal adaptation of poet Samuel Beckett's haunting final masterpiece.