Alpha Saloon are widely known for their unique style of Ultra Pop: big cinema by means of Zukunftsmusik. Great and bona fide timeless songs in mellifluous wide screen format.
Take-no-prisoners-style.
While reggae bands are usually playing reggae and metalbands are of course
playing metal, Alpha Saloon are playing Ultra Pop-thus simply leaving every single song the right to sound like what it wants to sound like.
Just as heterogenous and flamboyant is their following: it includes art school folks and fashionistas as well as punks, die hard cry-babies, mad cultists and happy goths that regularly come to see the shows and have a good time.
The four young maîtres-musiciens, a collective of hard rocking nuclear physicists as it is, have (altogether) spent almost 200 years playing with the finest orchestras at the worlds leading operahouses but still never quit their dayjobs as teenage russian lesbians.
A night with Alpha Saloon: living and enjoying music at the Château. And then some, of course...
Tracklist:
1. Sun bears gold
2. The great song of inconfidence
3. Drinking in stereo
4. Contro Venezia passatista
5. Mama Alemania
6. Lonesome skymarshals in the sky
7. Pretty dancing person
8. Modern times, modern people, modern talking
9. To avoid the apparently stupid
10. Uber German
Can you imagine Robert Johnson, Dale Cooper, Debbie Harry and Karl or Groucho Marx gathered around a tropical style rattan table (bending under loads of empty and half empty cocktail glasses), on a casino terrace in a blade runner version of Las Vegas, avidly discussing urbanism, vernacular music, party sociology and substance abuse anecdotes - while popular songs from aeon old 78’s are jangling through some distorted P.A.? And intermingling with that the frantic record-scratching carried over from a nearby 80’s New York block party and the muffled noise from a crowded Mexican speakeasy next door (operated by a former ship’s cook from the Bucovina)?
If that sounds like a gathering you’d like to join, then “Hello Weltgeist!” might be just down your alley. A jet propelled rollercoaster ride through Indie-Rock, weird old America, Disco, future-electro, New Wave, Turntablism, 70’s Punk, Country/Western, Glam, Grunge and Mariachi. Well, it’s all Pop after all, isn’t it?
Fortunately, Alpha Saloon have based this eclecticism extravaganza on a groundwork of solid songwriting skills, mostly evading mere novelty. Yes, terribly talented tunesmiths they are: “Hello Weltgeist!” offers a shitload of catchy melodies, lucsious chord changes and elegant, witty lyrics, that go far beyond your usual “songs about love and the weather” fare. And the band seems to be very serious about what they have to say: every song on the recording is performed like they were navigating burning ships or something...
(Erich Zann, 09/2006)
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"LONESOME SKYMARSHALS IN THE SKY"
Get this video and more at MySpace.com "UBER GERMAN"
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UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.workforblingsurveys.com
... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "wo ah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.surveyblingbling.com
... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "wo ah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
you have to watch the entire series!! SO FUNNY!!! I swear, my whole Saturday went by before I knew it, just watching one show after the other. I'm such a loser, I know, lol. Anyways, got any plans for next weekend? ... cuz i doooooooo! oooh, I think the pizza's here, I'm so freakin hungry right now, but it's all good. and that survey thing i was doing - THAT YOU WAS MAKING FUN OF ME FOR DOING!! - i just got paid! $76 for my first check, and since i got paid, I'm gonna do more of em, but I'm already at $184, so I'm loving it. They're so seriously stupid tho - the one I got last night was about my hair and stuff - like what kind of shampoo do I use, do I normally use conditioner ... for real, so easy. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
exactly. im going to see how much money i get for my b-day... which probably won't be much lol. and then i'll see where to go from there. hehhehe im excite! ethan's excited cuz we'll have the same phone. we're such dorks, i know; anyways, yeah i know exactly what u mean i need one too but yeah its the only way to move forward and hey if its true love let it go and if it comes back then ull know for sure!!! and OH I am so jealous that you got to go to Savannah! maybe i'll get to go soon too! i've been saving up my money that i've been getting from taking those survey things online. i'm up to $243 (heh, weird number, i know) so far, so i figure once i hit like a thousand, i'm goin on a va-ca, baby! do em, too! they're like soooo easy. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
just added a new track to our page if you wanna check it out.
it's called SECOND HAND BLUES
also, we just got our album back from the printers. ltd edition of 500 hand numbered copies. it will be available to buy online soon but if you wanna buy an advance copy send me a mail.
Unser Debüt ist jetzt „offiziell raus“ (Label: Popappeal / Vertrieb: Brokensilence) und damit beim Dealer Eurer Wahl oder im Versand erhältlich. Die „IFreaks“ unter Euch können unsere Lieder auch als mp3s z.B. über den shop in unserem Myspace-Profil saugen!
Schön auch, dass die Platte anscheinend auch Anderen gefällt, dann müssen wir uns gottseidank NICHT peinlicherweise selber abfeiern! ;) ... sondern zitieren mal eine kleine Auswahl an Nettigkeiten über unser Album zur besseren Verortung!
Liebe Grüße Marc & Jochen
"...Wie ein warmer Pelz schließen sich diese Songs um die Stimme und betten sie weich. Herrlich." (intro)
"… irgendwie Potential für Filmmusik guter deutscher Kinofilme …“ (www.popkiller.de)
„… erstaunlich authentische Americana-Sounds … Vieles ist sogar so richtig No Depression, es dominieren Twang-Gitarren, Banjo, Dobro, und die Jungs singen auch sehr schön zusammen … alles sehr souverän produziert, so dass die Formel Calexico mit deutschen Texten gar nicht so falsch ist…“ (glitterhouse-mag)
„ … Sparsam, oft nur mit Akustik-Gitarre und Banjo instrumentiert ... Schöne Songs, persönliche Texte … „ (www.gaesteliste.de)
„… motovun beweisen, dass Innovation im deutschsprachigen Indie-Bereich durchaus möglich ist. Bei einem Album wie diesem lässt sich ein Loblied schlichtweg nicht vermeiden …„ (www.alternativmusik.de)
Die Rock Pop Schule Berlin präsentiert Euch wieder eine Live-Session. Bis Ende des Jahres könnt Ihr monatlich in der Oxident Bar mit anderen Musikern zusammenkommen und musizieren. Eingeladen ist jeder, der Spaß an Musik hat und auf der Bühne zeigen will, was er kann. Equipement vorhanden! Eintritt frei!
Wann: Jeden ersten Donnerstag im Monat: 2.8.07, 6.9.07, 4.10.07, 1.11.07, 6.12.07 Wo: Oxident Bar, Frankfurter Allee 53, Friedrichshain
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