UPSET THE RHYTHM: November 2013

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

MAGIK MARKERS tomorrow!

Afternoon all!

One of our favourite bands, MAGIK MARKERS touch down in London tomorrow, can’t tell you how excited we are! It seems like forever since they were last over in the UK and their new album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ is an incredible record, full of squalling feedback, free-punk gravity and a newfound tender songcraft. Tomorrow’s show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club will also see a special electric set from C JOYNES and William Rees aka VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE both performing too, it’s going to be the best. Here’s all you need to know…

\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////

MAGIK MARKERS

C JOYNES

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

MAGIK MARKERS self-referential improvisations and gritty brand of strutting, spinning and splitting in packed houses, panel trucks, and the underground sound and light discotheques, began in a Hartford basement around the Millennium. Whilst consistently releasing some wild material on their own Arbitrary Signs label the band have also spun out some remarkable records for Ecstatic Peace, Hospital Productions, Not Not Fun and most recently Drag City, who are releasing forthcoming album 'Surrender To The Fantasy'. 'STTF' (never too soon for the acronym) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas and on beyond. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones colour commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete "koan on loan" Nolan has nixed his kit into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed. For these New England nerfherders, whatever terror Hawthorne's wood was meant to hold dissolves in a beer fueled frugging party. 'Mirrorless', the deep-focus track/single-that-never- was/video-that's-about-to-be unspools its jewels and dissolves like all perfect ballads, with a giggle and a casual chorus of whistled free-melody and a sweet outro-solo. 'STTF' builds monolithically in it's penultimate moment, then blazes out with possibly the best prescription cough medicine solo in the history of Elisa Ambrogio's storied career. This is a Mainliner-ish ode to the American underbelly that spawned rock and roll heroes and bad life choices; long a topic of fascination and adoration in the MM camp, and it ends the Fantasy by beginning another.

C JOYNES is an English acoustic guitarist, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE is William Rees, a multi-instrumentalist currently based in London. Having spent six years studying Hindustani classical music in India, as well as being classically trained on the viola, Rees has a keen understanding of both Eastern and Western classical music. Rees’ viola playing is an esoteric blend of his disparate influences, ranging from Indian and Persian classical music, to modern composition and free improvisation. He released a cassette on Night Ritual Recordings in 2013, entitled A Burial Shroud.

Thanks as always for reading,

See you soon!

UTR

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LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10^TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

PETE SWANSON

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

Friday, 15 November 2013

GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS tomorrow and MAGIK MARKERS next week!

Morning everyone!

Thank you for coming to see No Joy earlier this week and for all your support for our new releases by WAY THROUGH, GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS too. Over the last five days we’ve spent most of our time mailing out records to you all over the world! It’s always such an exciting time, never gets old. Tomorrow night we return to the Shacklewell Arms for GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS’ final night of their European tour. Tickets cost only £5, will be available on the door and the show runs early finishing by 10.30pm. Bomber Jackets are no longer able to perform, due to unforeseen circumstances, but we now have ample time to soak up MICKEY GLOSS’ DJ set in full, plus the GW/ PP split LPs will be in attendance in all their silver and black splatter vinyl splendor (easy for me to say). We’re also announcing today our 10th birthday party show featuring JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS on December 18th and our first event of 2014 featuring PETE SWANSON on January 10th. Lots more details to follow, including the full blurb of next Wednesday’s MAGIK MARKERS show too, enjoy…

\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

MICKEY GLOSS (DJ SET)

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect. War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm have released a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.

MICKEY GLOSS is a songwriter, producer, DJ and serial music creep from Australia. His goal as a DJ is to blend his own musical satisfactions into one entity that explores a lineage of abrasive texture, pop gold and arrangement finesse. Expect to hear remixed partitions of songs, odd-ball classics and songs you will that will peak your curious brow.

\\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////

MAGIK MARKERS

C JOYNES

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

Thanks so much for reading!

Have the best weekend,

UPSET

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LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10^TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

PETE SWANSON

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

Monday, 11 November 2013

NO JOY tonight and new records from WAY THROUGH and GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS

Morning everyone!

It’s a busy Monday for us at Upset The Rhythm, tonight we have the brilliant NO JOY and FEAR OF MEN playing tonight at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, plus we also have two new releases leaping into the world today. Our first record is a split LP between GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS who are touring Europe presently (playing London on Saturday!), 180g silver-n-black vinyl, 500 copies only, maximal wave and orbiting melancholia! Our second is WAY THROUGH’s new album ‘Clapper Is Still’, 180g white vinyl and digipak CD, described by Caught By The River as “an ecstatic survey of England: clattering and chopped music of concrete, crops, rosettes and rituals.” Both are available in shops across the land now, including from our webshop where they cost £10 (including postage in the UK).

Listen here!

Thanks for reading, listening, looking…

\\\\\\ TONIGHT /////

NO JOY FEAR OF MEN

Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

NO JOY are a Montreal noise-pop band, rooted heavily in shoegaze ripcurls and devastating melody. Jasamine White-Gluz, Laura Lloyd and Garland Hastings knock down the fence between nostalgia and modernity, chaos and control. On new album 'Wait To Pleasure' you can hear what’s happening under the surface, a work that subverts the expectations of where a latter-day approach to that genre might be able to take the listener. “We get a lot of the obvious comparisons,” Laura says about the band’s music, favorably likened to the stormier side of the pond, where bands like Lush and Swervedriver used to reside, as well as the templates for that sound in groups like Hüsker Dü. 'Lunar Phobia' finds Jasamine’s ethereal vocal harmonies prismatically split in the studio environment, with syncopated and chopped-up rhythms last heard in Alan Moulder’s work with groups of yore like Curve, a seamless blend of digital tricks and analog guitar crunch. Better to drill into your skull before you realize what’s happening – better to let all of their sometimes-stinging, sometimes-syrupy music into that new hole in your head.

FEAR OF MEN draw their inspiration from art and philosophy, deliberately juxtaposes iconic museum imagery and lyrical themes of loneliness and fragmentation with buoyant pop melodies. Fans of Broadcast and Julie Doiron will instantly gravitate toward their tender vocals and melodies. The songs are beguilingly sweet while the lyrics are often bleakly nihilistic, meaning that you’ll find yourself singing along to these intelligent, well-crafted pop songs while unwittingly sinking deeper into Fear of Men’s world. 'Early Fragments' (Kanine Records) was released earlier this year, a reverse chronological collection of their previous single releases, many of which were only available on limited edition 7” and cassette pressings.

\\\\\\ SATURDAY /////

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

BOMBER JACKETS

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect. War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.

BOMBER JACKETS are the London based trio of Russell Walker, Daniel Bolger and Sian Dorrer. The former two names you may recognise from their roles in prolific post-punk nitwits The Pheromoans, whilst the latter has played in various groups in London’s thriving DIY scene and opened the notorious London venue Power Lunches. 'The Lister’ is their first full length and the most focussed statement of their singular and somewhat awkward aesthetic. Musical reference points could be directed towards early Legendary Pink Dots, Hype Williams, early European minimal synth and even Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, whilst evoking a scenario that feels a somewhat uneasy - a hungover / slightly drunk train journey to somewhere you don’t really want to be but at the same time can’t avoid, trying to step outside of yourself to raise a wry and knowing smile at the misfortune along the way.

One last thing before we sign off, our friends at Baba Yaga’s Hut and Bleed are organizing a show for JAMES FERRARO tomorrow at Corsica Studios, interested parties, check this out interesting party.

See you soon!

UTR