Bone Apple Tea Brass Releases Debut Freshman EP
“Work To Do” is the freshman EP of Bone Apple Tea Brass. BAT is New York’s premiere flugabone brass band. With a resume that touts members of Lucky Chops, Slavic Soul Party, No BS! Brass and High and Mighty Brass Band. Even though BAT’s was conceived in 2018, its subsequent debut EP release is a celebration of the renaissance of the Flugabone, which has been popular as of late due to its portable nature and the rise of street band performance culture that was experienced in 2020. One could describe the sounds and aura of the flugabone as the love child birthed from a menajahtwa between the baritone trombone and trumpet.
“Work To Do” features two Trap (hip-hop) inspired originals, ‘Bone Boy Nu Nu’ and ‘Bone 2 2,’ as well as a brass bam boom bap 90’s hip hop joint ‘BLKGST,’ and a party popper remake of the Isley Brothers hit ‘Work To Do.’
The album is stacked with brass player all-stars, Ray Mason (Antibalas, Dap Kings) Ray Cetta (Chicago broadway musical), Nadav Nuremberg (recently produced works for Trombone Shorty). BAT’s founder Reginald Chapman has recently performed with Billy Porter on HBO’s Gossip Girl and with Audra McDonald at the 2021 MET GALA.
Click here to purchase Work To Do on Bandcamp.
Full List of Ensemble:
Kevin Moehringer – Trombone
Reginald Chapman – Bass Trumpet, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Composition
Marcus Tenney (Tennishu) – Drums – Bass
Scott Lane – Recording
Darius Christian – Mixing
Kelly Hibbert – Mastering
Adam Dotson – Flugabone
Adam Dotson – Flugabone
Tim Vaughn – Flugabone
Ray Mason – Flugabone
Chanel Chrichlow – Tuba
Josh Bailey – Drums
James Treichler – Mixing
Macon Mann – Synth
Nadav Nirenberg – Flugabone
Khristian Foreman – Bass Trombone
Steve Duffy – Tuba
Josh Bailey – Drums
Ray Cetta – Tuba
Trevor Turla – Marching Baritone
