Road records review Of Electric Penguins CD (3 Viewers)

[psycho]

Nice one John

Keith
http://www.myspace.com/psychonavigation

 

[lympog]

and electric penguins are also on this saturday with e+s=b, elsewhere and rarely seen above ground at the boom boom room (above patrick conways, parnell st) at this month's wired
check it out
doors 8.30pm / 6 quid in...

booyahh!!
- leigh

 

[rettucs]

I just got this. Fuck me, its good.

 

[psycho]

Dubliners Mark Cummins,Paul Murphy and Sean Quinn set out to make a modern record using only '70s instruments.Thus,the trusty tools of the electronica/ambient scene,Moog,mellotron and farfisa organ with a good sprinkling of live piano and guitar,are put to entrancing effect on this engaging album.The trio have worked with Brian Eno,Pink Floyd arranger Edward Shearmur and System 7 man Steve Hillage and it shows on the Flyod-tinged opener Gelband Answer the phone.A minor triumph,oh,and in case your'e wondering,"electric penguins" was the password Paul McCartney used to gain entry to his house in London's cavendish square in the '60s.

***** Alan Corr - RTE guide

 

[psycho]

Electric Penguins have been asked to record a session for Dan Hegarty's show on 2fm.The session will be aired at the end of October!

Also in a few weeks time the boys will perform a 60 minute mix for the 2fm late night sessions.The mix will be aired @ 4am on the 15th of October and will contain exclusive new material from the band.


Thanks,Keith
http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins


Electric Penguins will be performing at Tower records,Wicklow st tomorrow @ 6pm.Copies of their CD 'Goodbye from the Electric Penguins' will be available to buy at the gig!!

Electric Penguins Live this saturday with e+s=b, elsewhere and rarely seen above ground at the boom boom room (above Patrick Conways, Parnell St) at this month's 'Wired' Doors 8.30pm / 6 quid in...


Launch night for the cd will be happening at 4 Dame lane(Upstairs) on Thursday October 12th.Support from DJ.Keith Downey(Spin 1038,Psychonavigation)Doors 8pm - 10.30pm Admission €5

 

[psycho]

Electric Penguins have been asked to record a session for Dan Hegarty's show on 2fm.The session will be aired at the end of October!

Also in a few weeks time the boys will perform a 60 minute mix for the 2fm late night sessions.The mix will be aired @ 4am on the 15th of October and will contain exclusive new material from the band.


Thanks,Keith
http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins


Electric Penguins will be performing at Tower records,Wicklow st tomorrow @ 6pm.Copies of their CD 'Goodbye from the Electric Penguins' will be available to buy at the gig!!

Electric Penguins Live this saturday with e+s=b, elsewhere and rarely seen above ground at the boom boom room (above Patrick Conways, Parnell St) at this month's 'Wired' Doors 8.30pm / 6 quid in...


Launch night for the cd will be happening at 4 Dame lane(Upstairs) on Thursday October 12th.Support from DJ.Keith Downey(Spin 1038,Psychonavigation)Doors 8pm - 10.30pm Admission €5

 

[psycho]

Tonight the boys perform at Tower records,Wicklow st @ 6pm.Copies of their CD 'Goodbye from the Electric Penguins' will be available to buy at the gig!

In case you miss the Tower records gig you can also catch them playing later on with e+s=b, elsewhere and rarely seen above ground at the boom boom room (above Patrick Conways, Parnell St) at this month's 'Wired' Doors 8.30pm / 6 quid in...

Hope to see some of you there

Keith
http://www.myspace.com/psychonavigation

 

[psycho]

Electric Penguins 'Goodbye From The Electric Penguins ' (Psychonavigation) *****

Using Old Moog sythesizers and a myriad of vintage electronic equipment,this Dublin based trio has delivered a remarkable debut. Transatlantic(part 1) isn't a million miles away from Gary Numan territory,while the vocoder-heavy Answer The Phone melds two facets of Eno's career together - the playful sprite of Here Come The Warm Jets and the more introspective soul of Before And After Science.The highlight is the gorgeous Too Far with its Air-like opening and a finale that owes much to Kraftwerk.The album is not without its share of filler - the radio-friendly Lonnie is in dull singer-songwriter territory - but on the whole,it's a highly rewarding work and one of the finest domestic releases in months.
Burn it : Answer The Phone;Too Far

John Meagher - The Irish independent (Day and Night)


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Psychonavigation Records,a bright experimental voice in the indigenous dance scene,drops its latest long player this month in the form of 'The Electric Penguins' eerie and quite lovely Goodbye From The Electric Penguins.

Ed Power - Irish Independent (Day and Night)

 

[psycho]

ELECTRIC PENGUINS Goodbye From The Electric Penguins

Electric Penguins are a trio of studio rats schooled in the broad church of electronic, ambient and general esoteric idioms. Their collective pedigree is worth noting - Mark Cummins has worked with associates of both the Floyd and Massive attack; Seán Quinn was previously signed to Eno and Roxy’s E.G. imprint and worked with Steve Hillage; Paul Murphy does TV and radio commissions in his own studio when he’s not moonlighting as a producer and fraternising with Bowie’s band.The ensemble’s debut album is, as you might expect, an accomplished adventure in not-so-modern recording. The Penguins may be numbered among a growing cabal of reactionaries bypassing generic ProTools and digital trickery in favour of analogue bump and grind (Moogs, Mellotrons and Farfisas abound).

The opening ‘Gelb’ is a quite lovely slo-mo glide between Sigur Ros ice sculptures and Edge’s 1986 Captive soundtrack (specifically ‘Rowena’s Theme’), all breathy vocals and cinemascopic piano. It’s colour coded counterpart ‘Blau’ is another beauty - slow Nyman-esque airs punctuated by sonar echo.The collective works best when the vocals are muted and the words ephemeral: ‘Supergirl’ boasts elegantly 80’s vocals and soft synth pop textures that suggest China Crisis by way of Air, ‘Lonnie’ is beguilingly moody (a little heavy on the vocoder mind), while ‘Soft Landing’ as its title suggests, is a sort of light-hearted High Llamas space-off stitched with Duane Eddy guitar.The Penguins excel at atmospheres; orthodox song structures ill become them. For instance,‘Transatlantic’ begins as a masterclass in German precision-engineered motorik and ends up as John Foxxera Ultravox robot pop.Viewed in widescreen, Goodbye From The Electric Penguins is a triumph of sound over songcraft.Next time the intrepid trio might do well to dispense with the songwriterly strictures altogether and just go with the, um, floe. For now though, this is an intriguing debut, rich in ideas and wilfully different.

HOT PRESS - 7/10



ELECTRIC PENGUINS Goodbye From The Electric Penguins

New Irish electronica outfit, Electric Penguins have delivered a debut which had a masretplan - to make a modern record using only 70’s instruments such as Moogs, Mellotrons, organs and guitars, with no samplers or sequencers.The hard work paid off, and the three Dubliners - Mark Cummins, Paul Murphy & Seán Quinn - have turned in one of the years best sets, Goodbye From The Electric Penguins.Released on Keith Downey’s highly-rated Psychonavigation stamp, the opus will appeal to anyone witheven a remote interest in electronic music, not least because of the sweetly melancholic ‘Lonnie’ and thePostal Service-esque ‘Transatlantic’​

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HOT PRESS BEATS + PIECES​

 

[psycho]

Electric Penguins Live This Thursday night!!


Launch night for the cd will be happening at 4 Dame lane(Upstairs) on Thursday October 12th.

Support from DJ.Keith Downey(Spin 1038,Psychonavigation)

Doors 8pm - 10.00pm (Band on stage at 9pm)

Admission €5


Forthcoming Gigs:

The band will be headlining the opening night of D.E.A.F. - Dublin electronic arts festival.The event takes place on Wednesday October 25th @ Pravda,Dublin.More information here : http://www.deafireland.com/nuintro.htm

November 2nd : Trinity College (Private function)

The Spirit Store Dundalk (Date t.b.c.)

More gigs to be confirmed over the next week....

Keith
http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins

 

[psycho]

Friday October 27th :

Electric Penguins (Live) @ The Green Room,The Trinity Rooms,Co.Limerick

Support from DJ.Keith Downey(Spin1038,Psychonavigation)

http://www.myspace.com

 

[Rimbaud]

The mania in this thread is overwhelming!!!

 

[psycho]

 

[psycho]

Shock,horror,scandal this could be determined as 'Mania'

Larry Gogon just played Electric Penguins 'Supergirl' on 2fm!!

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[ernesto]

good luck electric penguins. i will buy your cd in tower if its available there. i have 25 euro in vouchers. hurray!

 

[psycho]

Hi Ernesto,Tower have just been topped up with more copies!

Love to hear your thoughts on the disc?

Cheers,Keith

 

[Rimbaud]

Shock,horror,scandal this could be determined as 'Mania'

Larry Gogon just played Electric Penguins 'Supergirl' on 2fm!!

.|..|

Yea he sure is the Irish John Peel!!!!

 

[psycho]

The Electric Penguins Launch their cd tonight folks!!

Hope to see some of you down there?

All the best,Keith

Venue : 4 Dame lane(Upstairs),Dublin 2

Doors : 8pm - 10pm (Band on stage at 9pm sharp)

Admission : €5

Complimentary Sol beer for the first 50 people.

http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins

 

[psycho]

Just in the door wow that was fun!

Great attendance,thank you very much to all who popped upstairs to catch the Penguins!Hope you enjoyed the free Sol beer?

Next live gig sees the band headlining the opening night of D.E.A.F. - Dublin electronic arts festival.The event takes place on Wednesday October 25th @ Pravda,Dublin.More information here : http://www.deafireland.com/nuintro.htm

Cheers,Keith

 

[psycho]

RTE 2FM October 14/15th Saturday night / Sunday morning 4.00am GMT one hour of Electric Penguins including exclusive new track "Trains"
& a 10 minute Penguins remix of the Interference song "All My Life".

Turn on, tune in & chill out.

http://www.rte.ie/2fm