Earthquake Machine PRESENTS
PING PONG
A late night of music with the likes of
SALVATORE (Norway, Kosmiche)
plus special guests ALKALI FLAT
& OUTONALIMB'S DJ KRAMER
@ THE LIQUID LOUNGE, Marlboro St. Cork
Saturday24th March // 9.3pm til late // €7
Hello all.
For any o’ you young uns out there who are the human expression of the innate energy of the universe and you like to throw your matter around on a level surface to both live and prerecorded sound waves arranged in a way that pleases you, I must inform you that PING PONG club has the answer to your needs in the form of a sexistential brain orgasm.
Marlboro Street (off Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork City Centre) is where one must go. Find a venue called Liquid Lounge, go straight upstairs to where PING PONG begins this Saturday for the first time ever. It kicks off on March 24th with laptop and guitar duo Alkali Flat, followed by the brilliant Norwegian electro instrumental band Salvatore, here on our green shores for the first time. The live sounds that please you will be followed by equally pleasing prerecorded sounds chosen by Plugd records New employee Kramer, and the dancing shouldn’t end till late.
All this is offered to you for the giveaway price of 7 Euro as a gesture of goodwill from the ping pong heads. Their greatest wish is that said sounds will affect a euphoria so intense, you'll strangely feel the need to shake your particles until they disperse and form new expressions of energy. Come along for the opening night, on the 24th March, sample the goods and you won’t be able to resist the second night of PING PONG, on the 14th April, where the wonderful “cap pas cap” are due to take Cork by the pants and make it dance.
ALKALI FLAT
Alkali Flat is a solo project, the music is written/performed/recorded by someone who has too much spare time (A.F.). With a DAW, a laptop, various instruments and miscellaneous junk songs have been battered out since 2003. Lately, the live element has taken over seeing the band playing a handful of gigs supporting popular acts such as My Disco and Jape. Alkali Flat live is Alan F, Garry C, and a laptop doesn't have a name (and probably never will). Listen up if you like what's going on.
www.myspace.com/alkaliflat
SALVATORE
The story goes that one evening in 1998 some Norwegian musicians were listening to the 1970s German group Neu! and immediately decided to form a new band. This became Salvatore, and they explored Neu!'s greatest invention, the "motorik" or "endlose gerade" drum beat, a 4/4 beat with no fills continuing in a trance-like fashion for an incredibly long time. But this was only the beginning. While their search for euphoric music may have begun with Neu!, they went on to use other kinds of grooves that also have a great sense of affirmation.
Salvatore play instrumental rock music, but this is something quite distinct from the "post-rock" scene. Post-rock tends to be musically complicated, mathematical and almost a kind of jazz. Salvatore use simplicity and repetition with an optimistic, emotional feel. It's an underground band, but I detect none of the usual urban angst in this music. Instead there is a wonderful sense of spaciousness, like the very lakes or mountains of Norway. In this way, Salvatore very much transcend their German influence.
Previously, members of the band had been in electronic groups, and with Salvatore they managed to successfully mix electronic sounds with live guitar, bass and drums. They have also explored different styles over the years. Perhaps the shifting band line-up, with musicians joining and leaving and re-joining, may be responsible for their diversification into unexpected musical areas. Their 2004 album Luxus, includes variations on African music and Jamaican dancehall. Whiile their latest album released this year well it takes another direction - check out 'Days of Rage'.
www.myspace.com/salvatorenorway
www.clubpingpong.net
PING PONG
A late night of music with the likes of
SALVATORE (Norway, Kosmiche)
plus special guests ALKALI FLAT
& OUTONALIMB'S DJ KRAMER
@ THE LIQUID LOUNGE, Marlboro St. Cork
Saturday24th March // 9.3pm til late // €7
Hello all.
For any o’ you young uns out there who are the human expression of the innate energy of the universe and you like to throw your matter around on a level surface to both live and prerecorded sound waves arranged in a way that pleases you, I must inform you that PING PONG club has the answer to your needs in the form of a sexistential brain orgasm.
Marlboro Street (off Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork City Centre) is where one must go. Find a venue called Liquid Lounge, go straight upstairs to where PING PONG begins this Saturday for the first time ever. It kicks off on March 24th with laptop and guitar duo Alkali Flat, followed by the brilliant Norwegian electro instrumental band Salvatore, here on our green shores for the first time. The live sounds that please you will be followed by equally pleasing prerecorded sounds chosen by Plugd records New employee Kramer, and the dancing shouldn’t end till late.
All this is offered to you for the giveaway price of 7 Euro as a gesture of goodwill from the ping pong heads. Their greatest wish is that said sounds will affect a euphoria so intense, you'll strangely feel the need to shake your particles until they disperse and form new expressions of energy. Come along for the opening night, on the 24th March, sample the goods and you won’t be able to resist the second night of PING PONG, on the 14th April, where the wonderful “cap pas cap” are due to take Cork by the pants and make it dance.
ALKALI FLAT
Alkali Flat is a solo project, the music is written/performed/recorded by someone who has too much spare time (A.F.). With a DAW, a laptop, various instruments and miscellaneous junk songs have been battered out since 2003. Lately, the live element has taken over seeing the band playing a handful of gigs supporting popular acts such as My Disco and Jape. Alkali Flat live is Alan F, Garry C, and a laptop doesn't have a name (and probably never will). Listen up if you like what's going on.
www.myspace.com/alkaliflat
SALVATORE
The story goes that one evening in 1998 some Norwegian musicians were listening to the 1970s German group Neu! and immediately decided to form a new band. This became Salvatore, and they explored Neu!'s greatest invention, the "motorik" or "endlose gerade" drum beat, a 4/4 beat with no fills continuing in a trance-like fashion for an incredibly long time. But this was only the beginning. While their search for euphoric music may have begun with Neu!, they went on to use other kinds of grooves that also have a great sense of affirmation.
Salvatore play instrumental rock music, but this is something quite distinct from the "post-rock" scene. Post-rock tends to be musically complicated, mathematical and almost a kind of jazz. Salvatore use simplicity and repetition with an optimistic, emotional feel. It's an underground band, but I detect none of the usual urban angst in this music. Instead there is a wonderful sense of spaciousness, like the very lakes or mountains of Norway. In this way, Salvatore very much transcend their German influence.
Previously, members of the band had been in electronic groups, and with Salvatore they managed to successfully mix electronic sounds with live guitar, bass and drums. They have also explored different styles over the years. Perhaps the shifting band line-up, with musicians joining and leaving and re-joining, may be responsible for their diversification into unexpected musical areas. Their 2004 album Luxus, includes variations on African music and Jamaican dancehall. Whiile their latest album released this year well it takes another direction - check out 'Days of Rage'.
www.myspace.com/salvatorenorway
www.clubpingpong.net
