Afternoon everyone!
Abundant thanks to all of you who came
out last week to our shows, Colin Self and Natural Information Society both
blew us beyond away with their performances. We have footage from both concerts
up on our video channel now if you’d like to re/live how great it was!
Remember, we wouldn’t be able to
organise concerts for artists like these without your support, your
contribution is always valued, thank you endlessly!
This week we have another trio of Upset
The Rhythm events planned. Thursday sees us head to Servant Jazz Quarters for a
night of synth-pop craving and eerie punk actions with CC Dust, Static Palm and
Badaboum. Anyone who caught
Maryjane’s performance style with VEXX last Summer can attest to what an
electrifying experience watching her enact truly is! Tickets are just £5 and
will be available on the door.
Friday finds us at The O2 Forum Kentish
Town with the astonishing Ty Segall
& The Muggers and Ausmuteants;
an epic meeting of minds for heavy-hitting riffage, kinetic thrills and all
things punk vs offbeat. The Muggers feature members of Wand, Cairo Gang and
King Tuff himself, so looks set to be dizzyingly special indeed. The Ausmuteants
show last year was also one of our favourites, even though Harry Potter didn’t
turn up on the band’s guestlist! Tickets available from the links below,
amplifiers on from 8pm.
Finally, this Saturday we’re delighted
to be back at Café OTO, this time accompanied by the stratospheric, crystalline
balladry of Eartheater, visionary
sound abstraction from Gabriel Saloman
and enigmatic, pastoral psych-outs from Common
Eider, King Eider. Literally a triple headline show, this is the concert
that just keeps coming up with the goods! Tickets for this are £9 in advance
from the link below, plus there’s paragraphs galore on each of these events to
follow.
It’s time to close those diaries and
open your wardrobe! With our new TERRY
album coming out next week, we’re celebrating early with this brand new t-shirt
design by James Vinciguerra of Total Control. These were printed by The Positive Press this week on 100%
cotton Anvil shirts and are available from our webstore in multitude sizes
right now! This is a limited run of 100 shirts, with all proceeds going towards
bringing over the band on their debut tour this September! Available to purchase
here:
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CC DUST
STATIC PALM
CC DUST is a new duo from Olympia, Washington
featuring Maryjane Dunphe and David Jaques. Channeling an elemental life-force
hewn straight from the heart, Dunphe’s voice bursts into every melodic line, a
cracked, soulful instrument powered by conviction, duetting, duelling and
dancing with Jaques’ crisp electronic production. A light that casts shadow, a
doomed, romantic music anchored by Jacques’ live bass and powerful performance
values Dunphe has honed both in her punk group Vexx and in various film and
performance projects. Musically, CC Dust’s precedents might be considered the
European synth pop originators of the early 80s, there’s also an abundance of
low-end hooks played on baritone and bass guitars that teases the ear like
early New Order productions, but in Dunphe’s passionate vocal performances
there’s a close-to-the-bone reality that bypasses cool detachment. CC Dust play
real songs lived.
STATIC PALM is the solo project of James Burgess,
joined live by Sealings' Michael & Liam. Synth & drum-machine led
brooding post-punk. Fans of John Maus, Total Control, Tuxedomoon and other
practitioners of ice-cold post-punk will enjoy.
BADABOUM are a French
all-star group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and Solene
(Dudu Geva). They play a form of post punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and
Malaria adding their own reverbed idiosyncracies and eerie organ lines,
chanting in indecipherable italian, mock german and plain french. Taking turns
on drums and blowing thru severed reeds, Badaboum will bring you as much joy as
spooked chaos. Bruit Direct Disques just released their debut LP.
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TY SEGALL &
THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish
Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS, what are they thinking? Whether under
his own name or from various side projects, Ty Segall has kept new music
waiting around the corner for years. Over a mountain of releases (mainly on
Drag City and In The Red), he's proven that he can shred multiple times over,
and that he can match that intensity in his acoustic singer/songwriter mode.
With new album ‘Emotional Mugger’, we arrived at a turning point for Segall,
now he’s less focused on hitting the exact right notes and more concerned with establishing
an offbeat vibe, one matching the cheerful menace of the smiling doll heads on
the record sleeve. Another major departure for Segall on ‘Emotional Mugger’ is
his team. In addition to his usual co-conspirators Mikal Cronin and Charles
Moothart, he's surrounded himself by heavy-hitters like Kyle Thomas (King
Tuff), producer F. Bermudez (who helmed recent records by Gun Outfit and No
Age), Wand's Cory Hanson and Evan Burrows, and the Cairo Gang's Emmett Kelly.
Ty Segall & The Muggers are addicted to cheap thrills, rooting their songs
with weird punk hooks, droning synths and trippy guitar solos, they want it
rawer and realer because when Candy’s gone, there’s no more fun!
http://emotionalmugger.com/
AUSMUTEANTS are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria (Australia),
raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome and the Screamers. Letʼs not
mention Devo—as a two-piece, Jake Robertson (synth, guitar) and Billy Gardener
(drums) flushed that obsession with the release of their ‘Split Personalities’
album in 2012. They’ve since added Marc Dean and Shaun Connor on bass and
guitar, respectively, and worked ’60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a
subtler brand of heft into finely crafted pop songs, recording 22 in early
2013. Aarght! Records picked the best twelve for ‘Amusements’, reissued on
vinyl by Goner. It's 12 tracks of ripping, captivating, fun synth-punk. As they
shift from a deep buzzing synth to a trembling high end, Ausmuteants
consistently veer far away from anything resembling ‘Computer World’. Instead,
they invoke the kinetic, trashy attack of the essential Killed By Death punk
compilations. "Bad Day" has a persistent synth churn that's bolstered
by Gardener's primitive, hi-hat led stomp. Then there's "Daylight
Robbery", which features a melody that seems appropriately urgent for a
song about breaking a window in order to commit a crime in plain view of the
afternoon sun. Ausmuteants create a specific, slovenly universe with their
music, and while they don't move too far past the couch, they create an
exciting synth barrage from where they sit.
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EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
EARTHEATER is Alexandra
Drewchin, a New York based musician and artist who seeks on a daily basis to
upgrade her mental software. Also known for her shamanic performances
fronting Guardian Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled
solo vessel, a deliberate distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic
production techniques into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline
details. At any given moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between
a folk song, a musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a
cosmic montage that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad
arrangements rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her
dynamic vocal performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities.
Drewchin builds layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to
constitute stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October
2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu
Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.
GABRIEL SALOMAN is a
Vancouver based musician and artist who has been performing experimental,
conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for
his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently composes and performs solo as
GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates temporal abstractions, conceptual
sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel concern with sound art as both
liberating practice and praxis. In recent performances and recordings Saloman’s
music has been composed of percussion, tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar,
keyboards, piano and voice. In particular Saloman has explored the use of found
sound, field recordings, percussion and processed blank cassettes.
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always
been an enigmatic project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and
operating on the fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in
sweeping drones, stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence.
This endeavor (the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback to his will, smoothing out harsh
edges into something soothing, gentle, and quite lovely; nature infuses every
note and every pause, and that the project's latest
album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and its five movements
sound like a dark forest evening is no coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the
latest offering from Common Eider King Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It
comes with a handmade book of poetry, printed with metallic gold ink on blood
red 100% recycled paper.
See you so soon, thanks for reading!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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CC DUST
STATIC PALM
TY SEGALL &
THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish
Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
SONIC BOOM
HAPPY MEALS
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
PROTOMARTYR
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2
6NB
In
collaboration with Constant Flux…
DANIEL WAKEFORD
DOG CHOCOLATE
2DECKS
Saturday 23
July
DIY Space For
London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday
4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631
CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE
CARR
THE
LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ
NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston,
E8 3DL
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
Tuesday 4 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/364535
