Though the musicians had played together previously at different times in their early careers, the group started as a cover band at State College, originally comprised of Wilson High School graduates Pat, Tim, and Seth. Jon introduced himself to the group at a party, who happened to need a bassist. Lo and behold, Jon was exactly that.
Since then, the group has graduated or is finishing up at school. All but Pat live in State College. He lives and works in Brooklyn. But geography does not keep the band or the friendship apart. They get together when they can, and are constantly in contact. That being said, keeping together can be a difficult task. The band met four times last year to perform, twice in New York and twice in Pennsylvania.
"Tim works full time for an engineering firm in PA," says Pat. "I work full time in NYC, Jon manages a restaurant, is getting married, and has his first child on the way with his fiancé and Seth is finishing up his final semesters at PSU. Needless to say, it limits how frequently the four of us can get together."
Possibly Apostrophe has a very funky jam sound. In a world dominated by pop music and dance music (which, don't get me wrong, I love me my top 40), it's refreshing to hear a combination of different genres.
"The four of us all come from really differing musical backgrounds," Pat explains. "I've always been more of a jazz and ambient rock kid, Jon a mix of funk and dub style reggae, Tim more funk and heaver/dirtier blues, and Seth a heavier rock background...All of our influences come out in our music, which makes it stylistically interesting to classify. I prefer the term 'user friendly.'"
The early 20s is a huge time of transition, as I'm soon finding. It is, therefore, extremely encouraging to know that people like the members of Possibly Apostrophe still manages to stick together in spite of these changes.
Tim explains that the most difficult part of the process is the distance. "Though we're all separated from Pat [the other three being around State College], the drive to constantly create and share is still there...This isn't a project we would just "shelf" because we're all too busy - our music is constantly being created, reworked, scrutinized, re-arranged, etc. and I feel like we'll keep doing this for as long as we can while still being fruitful (ie still creating music we love)."
Possibly Apostrophe will eventually be releasing its most recent recordings as a free download EP.
Nice article Floc.
ReplyDeleteposted by Seth's dad.