Morning all!
Just a quick reminder that
tonight we have the monumental LITURGY
performing for us at Electrowerkz, they will be joined by CIRCUIT DES YEUX, whose potent balance of the eerie and melodic
matches up in intensity to the ritualistic metal epics coming later. We will
have some tickets on the door from 8pm and live music commences shortly after
8.30pm. Also, seeing we have your attention, we’ve also included below the full
show listing for our DAN DEACON (with
live drums!!!), YEAH YOU and WUME technicolour extravaganza taking
place at Oval Space next Tuesday, that’s going to be an equally awe-some event.
We’ve also just this minute confirmed a show with Café OTO for OBNOX next month too, best news. Read
on for all the pertinent detail…
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LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
LITURGY is a Brooklyn-based,
self-styled “Transcendental Black Metal” band whose yearning, energetic music
exists in an uncanny space between avant rock, black metal, fine art and
shamanic ritual. Led by songwriter and conceptual architect Hunter
Hunt-Hendrix, who is joined by guitarist Bernard Gann, bassist Tyler Dusenbury
and drummer Greg Fox, the band exists as a 21st century total work of art
(gesamtkunstwerk): activating divine potencies by means of music and culture
even as it underscores the contradictions inherent in such a project during the
internet era. Their third full length, ‘The Ark Work’ (Thrill Jockey), is a
quantum leap forward, a radical change in sound that paradoxically sounds more
like Liturgy than ever. The album hums and churns with Hunt-Hendrix’s inventive
arrangements - drenched with glockenspiels, bagpipes, strings, ritual chanting,
and MIDI horns. It supplements its metal energy with motifs from unlikely,
disparate genres; cross-fertilizing hardstyle beats, occult-oriented rap, and
the glitched re-sampling of IDM and with structures from Medieval sacred music,
Romantic classical music, and minimalism. The result is a rich, seething cyber-fantasia
that is improbably listenable, conveying the disarming, authentic emotion that
is Liturgy’s hallmark - a blend of startling invention, high caliber
musicianship, raw energy, and profound, cosmic sadness.
https://liturgy.bandcamp.com/
CIRCUIT
DES YEUX is the solo project of Chicago-based
artist Haley Fohr. Named for the nerve in the eye that supplies power to the
act of seeing, Circuit des Yeux launched in 2008 following a stint with the
autodidactic duo Cromagnon. A combination of folk chanteuse and noise maven,
Fohr’s sound vacillates seamlessly between lo-fi and effortless-sounding
songwriting sophistication. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies
the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and grief, ecstasy and
horror, using sounds as representations of the emotional spectrum that we all
experience. Fohr’s striking voice, an impassioned baritone, is the music’s
centerpiece and guiding force. Between 2009-13 Fohr released three solo records
and a series of EP’s and 7-inches with De Stijl and Ba Da Bing, gaining
international momentum with literally hundreds of live appearances around the
world. On new album, ‘In Plain Speech’ (Thrill Jockey), Fohr is joined by some
of the most progressive musicians in the Chicago music community; Cooper Crain
(Cave, Bitchin Bajas), Whitney Johnson (Verma), Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Adam
Luksetich (Little Scream), and Kathleen Baird (Spires That In The Sunset Rise).
Fohr cements her reputation as a fearless songwriter and inventive arranger
with this stirring collection of songs that are both gorgeous and emotionally
potent.
https://circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/
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DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
DAN
DEACON is an absurdist composer and
electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Musically influenced by Devo,
Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond Scott and Conlon
Nancarrow, Dan's music strives to take modern experimental composition and
electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and
hipster communities, placing it into the more informal "fun time".
Dan's music is about community and how to organise and inspire it. With the
success of Deacon’s 2007 album ‘Spiderman of the Rings’, came an opportunity
for the electronic-music iconoclast to increase the breadth and depth of his
entire musical project. Deacon moved from self-contained computer music to
orchestral epics. His interactive live show, honed in DIY spaces, was taken to
museums and concert halls. He frequently expanded his performances to include a
horde of side musicians. After a string of large ensemble projects (including
2009’s ‘Bromst’ and 2012’s ‘America’) Deacon started longing for the simplicity
of the days when he did nearly everything himself. Now he’s back touring in
support of a new album entitled ’Gliss Riffer’, an entirely self-produced
record of almost all electronic sounds, which was “easily the most fun [he’s]
ever had making a record.”
While ‘Gliss Riffer’
contains all the instrumental layering we’ve come to expect, the vocals are
mixed with a prominence and, at times, a clarity that have never been heard on
a Dan Deacon record before. Lyrical images of lightning, oceans, lakes, and
roads crop up frequently as stand-ins for freedom and self-realisation. The
tracks were started on the ever-changing landscapes that greet a touring
musician. This new record also marks the first time Deacon replaced his
digitally realised parts with analog synthesisers, giving Deacon the
opportunity to experiment in the same way he did with strings and wind
instruments on ‘America’. What makes Dan Deacon such an impressive musician has
always been his aesthetic directness and ecstatic energy, all of this along
with the heightened ‘focus on fun’ of his absorbing live shows has finally been
translated onto an album. It’s a euphoria tempered by yearning and set in
defiance of life’s nagging anxiety. “Happiness takes time,” we are reminded by
tremolo vocals in the middle of the supremely danceable “Mind on Fire.” The
ecstasy achieved on this new album and throughout Deacon’s live shows is always
well-earned.
YEAH
YOU make full improv / full pop music -
everything is made up on the spot, songs are composed as they are performed,
all struggles negotiated at the point of production. Hailing from Newcastle,
Yeah You are an edgy electronics duo consisting of Ekasilikon (voice) & MYKL
JAXN (beats). Each rehearsal and live performance is documented, and as such
they have a back catalogue of (literally) hundreds of songs, from which six
have been cherry-picked for their very first release called ‘Yantra’ (via Good
Food) coming hot on the heels of a host of recent, beyond brilliant live
performances.
WUME is a project from
Baltimore consisting of Al Schatz (who was a member of Bird Names) along with
Wham City transplant April Camlin. On their first 12-inch, called ‘Distance’
out now on Rotted Tooth records, they traverse the well-worn tundra of ambient
minimalism and stone cold Kraut-crafted beats. ‘Ciesla Swing’ is a refreshing
sub-three minute slice of undulating tones and trippy, buried utterances. Wume
also feel at home in long-form 15 minute track terrain, allowing them to
display the full power latent in their controlled morsels, allowing the vocals
to glide and dive throughout.
Thank yous for coming to see No Babies
and Ausmuteants this week, and of course thanks as always for reading. Have a
terrific week!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | SOLD OUT
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1
July
Montague Arms,
289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
PEGA MONSTRO
DEERHOOF
PEGA MONSTRO
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
RICHARD DAWSON & ASIQ NARGILE
Monday 14
September
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A
Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823
DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
MATANA
ROBERTS
‘Coin Coin Chapter Three’
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central,
E8 1LL
