A big chunk of the world became familiar with Chappo in 2010 when the Brooklyn band licensed their song "Come" (featured in their debut EP) to Apple for an iPod Touch commercial. In the following years the group released another EP and a full length in 2012, while Chappo’s drummer/producer Zac, together with NYC based Jupiter One drummer Dave Heilman, also started working on material for psychedelic side project Fancy Colors. Jupiter’s singer K in the meantime had also started a new solo project called Kishi Bashi, who – together with Chappo – toured with Of Montreal among others.
After 2 years the Fancy Colors "Near Equator" album is finally done and available for streaming. Sounding like a mellow, psychedelic journey for fans of (a less baroque version of) Pink Floyd, it is said to evoke an experience Zac had one night, when he believes his "psyche had melted with the critters" who were sleeping under his room’s floor, which led to hin sharing some of their dreams, which – listening to the record – must have been rather beautiful.
Chappo is now back together working on a new release and recently put out an EP of cover songs called "Nothin’ to Sell You". See Chappo at The Knit on March 30.
This song was added to our SoundCloud playlist of emerging NYC artists here.