Afternoon everyone!
Huge thanks to all of you who came to see Magik Markers last week, what
a solid show, so resplendent! We find ourselves back at Café OTO tomorrow for
our final instalment of MISSISSIPPI
RECORDS ON TOUR, which sees Eric Isaacson from the influential label
present a talk / presentation on the history of recorded music. Eric’s talk
takes into account everything from the unintentional sound recordings found in
Greek pottery to the Victorian craze for laughing records and is a fun,
homespun and knowledgeable insight into the same spirit which guides
Mississippi to release the exceptional music of MARISA ANDERSON, LORI
GOLDSTON and DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH
WATER, who will all be performing afterwards. We will have some tickets
available on the door and please make sure you get there early for the film/talk
commences from 7.30pm. Read on for the whole story plus our show listing for CHIPSY and CONTAINER next month!
Exciting times…
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MISSISSIPPI RECORDS
ON TOUR…
'A
Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music
according
to Mississippi Records'
(A film & talk presentation)
Including live
performances from…
MARISA ANDERSON
LORI GOLDSTON
DRAGGING AN OX
THROUGH WATER
Tuesday 30 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/286496
A once in a blue moon
showcase that features a brand new live film/talk/slide show presentation by
Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records label boss and store owner) plus three live
acts, all of whom have released records on the Mississippi Record label. Marisa
plays emotive acoustic and electric whirlwinds, Lori wanders across borders
with her atmospheric cello playing and DAOTW gloriously ruptures songs rooted
in folk and country traditions.
Mississippi Records
is modern day record phenomena, where there is never a dull moment and run with
the care and passion that it is hard to suppress. Based in Portland, Oregon,
USA it is a very local shop and a very outernational record label that has
released unheralded lost classic's from all over the globe, collections of
Harry Smith's anthologies as well as Alan Lomax's recordings, some truly
amazing compilations that wear the compilers tastes loud and proud as well as
some punky and quick off the shelf undercover albums that sell out pretty much
as soon as they are made. Eric Isaacson who helped set up and runs a lot of the
Mississippi Records labels and shop activities is also a wonderful, playful and
sincere guide through the highs and lows of music history with a keen eye on
the marvellous outsider types. For this tour he will introduce a brand new show
film/talk presentation and his fellow travellers are three musicians with super
strong ties to the label, all on the bill and performing.
'A
Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to Mississippi Records' is Eric Isaacson's new concoction, a
combination of film, slide show, lecture and soundscape. It instinctively and
idiosyncratically illustrates a entire history of recorded music (focusing on
Eric's patch, North America!), from the birth of the first star in the universe
all the way to the dark ages of the 1980's. The ultimate intention of this
travelling exhibition is to give the audience a sense of wonder; that anything
is possible and art is worth doing. Tonally, the presentation navigates into
the outer reaches, bypassing academic stuffiness in favour of entertainment
value and immediacy. All materials will be from Mississippi Records vast and
seldom seen archive of film, music and art.
This whirlwind 90
minute sound and visual representation will attempt to sum up as many important
points in the evolution of recorded music that can be done in such a short
amount of time. Subjects hit upon include:
* The cosmic patterns
that resemble music generated by stars being born and dying.
* The musical
patterns in the natural world that work on the same principals as music.
* The untold early
history of recording technology. Including tales of Archeoacoustic technology
that allows us to hear recordings from 2,000 years or more ago, cat
pianos, the phonautogram which reproduces sounds from dust and much more.
* The rise of the
blues, rock and roll, and other revolutionary American music forms and their
subsequent destruction by the powers that be.
* 45 minutes of
incredibly vibrant archival footage of some some the greatest musicians on
Earth (as well as some novelties) including Bo Diddley, Rosetta Tharpe, The
Collins Kids, Gary Davis, and the Staple Singers.
MARISA ANDERSON is a composer, guitarist and
multi-instrumentalist from Portland, Oregon who works both solo and in
beautiful tandem. Inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, country and
western radio from the 60′s and 70′s, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles,
mortality, and praise. Featuring an impressive 12 improvisations for guitar and
lap steel Marisa has released two albums on Mississippi. In the past two years,
Anderson’s music has landed her slots with artists including Godspeed You!
Black Emperor, The Devil Makes 3 and Sharon Van Etten.
LORI GOLDSTON is a cellist, based in Seattle, with
an emotional and magic touch. Classically trained and rigorously de-trained,
possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist,
composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher . Her voice as a cellist,
amplified or acoustic is full, textured, committed and original. She wanders
recklessly across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography,
performing in clubs, cafes, galleries, arenas, concert halls, sheds,
ceremonies, barbecues, and sanctuaries. Collaborations famously include being
thrown in the dark end with Nirvana and enjoying the songs of David Byrne and
Cat Power. Lori also co-founded Black Cat Orchestra and has been key to Earth
live shows. She has received commissions to do live scores for several silent
films.
DRAGGING AN OX
THROUGH WATER
is a solo project from Brian Mumford, performing songs rooted in folk and
country traditions, though ruptured, complicated, and complimented with broken
textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and homemade oscillators. Chance
elements and candlelight sensitive instruments destabilize customary
electro-amplified-tightness & introduce improvisation to the recitation of
these songs. Brian also plays in Sun Foot, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Deep
Fried Boogie Band, & Jewelry Rash. He runs a small cassette & CDR label
called Musical Impressions. Brian has collaborated with TJO, Chris Johanson,
John Wiese, Makino Takashi, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Vic
Chesnutt, Pete Swanson, and many others.
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E.E.K. featuring
ISLAM CHIPSY
CONTAINER
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
Saturday 11 October
Tufnell Park Dome
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288663
CONTAINER
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
Saturday 11 October
Tufnell Park Dome
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288663
E.E.K.
featuring ISLAM CHIPSY come direct from Cairo,
launching their Shaabi keyboard sounds with deadly accuracy at your pineal
gland via the irresistible propulsion of two raging drum kits. Chipsy's new
wave Chaabi and Nile Delta synth has erupted out of the recent change in the
social structures of Egypt, that disrupted existing power structures (to a
certain degree) and created a whole new way of distributing art, politics and
philosophy. E.E.K.’s debut album came out on the brilliant Nashazphone label in
January this year, furnished with sleevenotes by Alan Bishop (of Sun City
Girls) and mastering by his Sublime Frequencies ally Mark Gergis. Chipsy’s
shameless yet dazzling showboating rides atop the gigantic dual rhythms,
creating a riotous North African dance music that could send any audience into
an absolute frenzy. The keyboards sound like sirens and there's a pure, violent
virtuosity present. Traditional piano players use all their fingers to play a
chord. House music revolutionised this, by allowing the producer to use only
one finger. Chipsy introduced a new approach: he fires tone clusters with his
fists, palms and edges of his hands all over the keyboard, and slamming down
the keys, but still in a controlled manner. It's psychedelic and pumping. It 's
tight and distorted. Sometimes there's cheers and yells, but nothing disrupts
the very smart compositional glee lurking beneath.
"I saw him at a street party in Giza where a few hundred people had amassed to dance and scream into the night. Flanked by Khaled Mando & Islam Tata, his two drummers pounding furiously as the signature tone of his synth intensified for almost two hours, Islam Chipsy demonstrated his completely revolutionary take on modern Egyptian Shaabi. The sound was raw and distorted, the volume was deafening, and the energy was high. 30 minutes into the set, the trio pulled out blindfolds and put them on, only to continue their virtuosic performance without missing a beat, synced to the max, playing forwards, backwards, sideways psychedelic noise and showmanship projected through the distortion of a jet engine taking flight for some unknown location in the distant future of Shaabi sound. They were smiling and are very nice cats indeed, but when the PA system is blazing with their audio explosions, you best get up off your ass to dance or get the hell out of the way!" Alan Bishop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlUXXlc_eUU
CONTAINER is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI’s Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts viscious punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, capable of both rushing the high-end dancefloors of Unsound, Donau and Berghain, and banging the below-stairs basements of Europe into submission. After a string of various cassette releases, the debut full length “LP” was released by Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools in 2011, and has since been followed up by a second Spools LP and the Treatment 12” on the Morphine label…a steaming new 12” pulled in earlier this year on Liberation Technologies, as well as the thrillingly violent mauling of Four Tet‘s Kool FM as linked to below.
https://soundcloud.com/gentledefect
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/
"I saw him at a street party in Giza where a few hundred people had amassed to dance and scream into the night. Flanked by Khaled Mando & Islam Tata, his two drummers pounding furiously as the signature tone of his synth intensified for almost two hours, Islam Chipsy demonstrated his completely revolutionary take on modern Egyptian Shaabi. The sound was raw and distorted, the volume was deafening, and the energy was high. 30 minutes into the set, the trio pulled out blindfolds and put them on, only to continue their virtuosic performance without missing a beat, synced to the max, playing forwards, backwards, sideways psychedelic noise and showmanship projected through the distortion of a jet engine taking flight for some unknown location in the distant future of Shaabi sound. They were smiling and are very nice cats indeed, but when the PA system is blazing with their audio explosions, you best get up off your ass to dance or get the hell out of the way!" Alan Bishop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlUXXlc_eUU
CONTAINER is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI’s Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts viscious punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, capable of both rushing the high-end dancefloors of Unsound, Donau and Berghain, and banging the below-stairs basements of Europe into submission. After a string of various cassette releases, the debut full length “LP” was released by Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools in 2011, and has since been followed up by a second Spools LP and the Treatment 12” on the Morphine label…a steaming new 12” pulled in earlier this year on Liberation Technologies, as well as the thrillingly violent mauling of Four Tet‘s Kool FM as linked to below.
https://soundcloud.com/gentledefect
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/
Thank you for
reading,
See you
tomorrow,
UTR
x
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THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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Mississippi Records
on tour: 'A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to
Mississippi Records' (A film & talk presentation)
Including live
performances from…
MARISA ANDERSON
LORI GOLDSTON
DRAGGING AN OX
THROUGH WATER
Tuesday 30 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/286496
E.E.K. featuring
ISLAM CHIPSY
CONTAINER
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
Saturday 11 October
Tufnell Park Dome
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288663
CONTAINER
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs
Saturday 11 October
Tufnell Park Dome
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288663
SPRAY PAINT
THE GUTTERS
TENSE MEN
Friday 31 October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
Friday 31 October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
RODION G.A.
Wednesday 5 November
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288581
Wednesday 5 November
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288581
FUTURE ISLANDS
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
CELEBRATION
Thursday 6
November
O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT
7pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT
SEX HANDS
SEX HANDS
DOG CHOCOLATE
Monday 10 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/289619
Monday 10 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/289619
TY SEGALL
MOVIE STAR JUNKIES
Wednesday
12 November
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | £15.00 | SOLD OUT
7.30pm | £15.00 | SOLD OUT
DARK BLUE
Monday 24
November
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/289897
GUERILLA TOSS
Tuesday 25 November
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/290255
Tuesday 25 November
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/290255
WHITE
FENCE
Thursday
29 January
100 Club,
100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL
8pm | £9
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/287769
