Two Waterford artists are set to preform together this Saturday, October 15th at Electric Avenue.
Alex Gough and Cal Pacino will join forces for a night full of Hip-Hop and musical experiments.
The gig will feature full live sets by each act followed by a late night DJ set from Waterford’s Jabba collective playing the best of Afrobeat, Dancehall, Dub, Funk, Hip-Hop, Latin, Reggae and World Music.
Drummer/Producer/Artist Alex Gough is helping blaze a trail for Irish hip-hop internationally.
He’s racked up millions of streams for his 2019 debut EP, ‘80%’, and earned a high profile play on the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’.
There’s a variety within Gough’s productions. Graduating from the sample-heavy sound of 2018’s acclaimed ‘Infomercial Tape’, ‘80%’ featured both brilliantly old school beats on ‘Breakfast’ and jazz-influenced understatement in the shape of ‘Dear SJ’.
If you are striving to survive suburbia; not to be anaesthetised and homogenized by a drab age of sameness, Cal Pacino’s lyrical feast will make a home in you.
Pacino’s undeniable talent transcends time, place, and genre.
With a deep rooting in folk music – Cal takes on the soulful role as poet within the funky-fresh 2022’s kaleidoscope of genres.
Pacino hooks us with expertly produced pop sounds, only to reel us into the real, spitting matters-of-fact and eternal truths.
Flowing effortlessly from soul singing, hinting jazz, and then gliding into raw Irish rapping, he tightropes between transcendent and normal life with the playfulness of a man who knows the craic like his own reflection. Cal has just released his solo album ‘Sowing Seeds’.
Tickets are available now on Universe.
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