Simeon Coxe was part of the musical duo known as The Silver Apples. He just passed away. I would not say I was previously a huge fan of their music. I thought their use of a DIY synthesizer beast and drummer combo were at times too repetitive and I wasn’t in love the singing. Listening now, I am liking what I hear more and more. I have borrowed the description below from Jon Pareles of The New York Times who describes the band:
Silver Apples was a two-man band: Dan Taylor on drums and Mr. Coxe, billing himself simply as Simeon, playing an unwieldy proto-synthesizer that he had built himself, and that his label named the Simeon. With its debut album, called simply “Silver Apples,” in 1968, the duo presaged the minimalist repetition, drones, dissonances and unearthly electronic timbres of krautrock bands like Can, Suicide’s electro-punk, and countless synth-pop and electronic dance music efforts to come.
Coxe was definitely an innovator. Kudos to him for his vision and his persistence in keeping the band recording and performing. Farewell!
