Morning all!
Today sees the
release of Rattle’s debut album, so
from this moment you can now pick it up from all the best shops around the
world or directly through our mail order shop here!
Formed
by Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley, Rattle began as an
experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their
music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through
off-kilter rhythms, phasing patterns and counter melodies.
Often starting by picking out the
ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, their songs reveal themselves
in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral
feel to some of the tracks on their self-titled debut album. ‘Starting’ has a
sense of urgency and a repeated lyric phrase that becomes a mantra, and ‘Click’
is more soothing and meditative. The hi-hat and cymbal hits in ‘Sorcerer’ have
a sword-fighting feel and ‘Stringer Bell’ is more of a cocktail song from a 1950s
city apartment. The fantastic ‘The Girls Are’ blog have just premiered the
whole stream of the album too, happy listening!
Rattle’s live shows conjure all the
magic and excitement from their creative process, taking in all things
hypnotic, monastic and danceable, presenting them anew.
Next
Thursday, Rattle will be performing at a special album launch party we’ve set
up in London, taking place at St Pancras Old Church in King’s Cross. Accompanying
them throughout the evening with their own performances will be boundary-leaper
Charles Hayward (of This Heat,
Camberwell Now etc.) and the ever-inventive Ex-Easter Island Head, debuting
a piece for prepared-guitars and FM radios in solo mode. Charles will be
performing two pieces during the evening, one entitled ‘Thirty Minute Snare
Roll’, the second called ‘The Bell Agency’.
Tickets are £6 and are available from the link below, we hope you can join
us for this unique event!
We also
confirmed this week a new concert for Calvin
Johnson in October. Selector Dub Narcotic in person will be bringing the
party to Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on October 17th with
support from Catenary Wires. Tickets
now onsale! Plenty of time to practice all your best dance moves! Not sure if
I’m addressing that to you or Calvin!
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THURSDAY /////
RATTLE - Album
launch!
CHARLES HAYWARD (Performing 30 Minute Snare Roll / Bell Agency)
EX-EASTER ISLAND
HEAD (SOLO)
Thursday 11 August
St Pancras Old
Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/367858
RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, Rattle
focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of
vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of
Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in
crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves
and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter
rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Often starting by picking out the ghost
notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in
rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a
choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde
with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to
create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days
when we’re saturated with so much music. Their live performances are at once
hypnotic, monastic and danceable, having entranced audiences at Supersonic
Festival, Dot to Dot, throughout the UK during a recent tour with Witching
Waves and in Europe with Zea (Arnold de Boer from The Ex). Rattle’s debut
self-titled album will be released on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You on August
5th, this show celebrates their London record launch!
https://www.facebook.com/Rattle-196974100379051/
CHARLES HAYWARD is an English drummer and songwriting
singer, known primarily as a founding member of the experimental rock group
This Heat and avant-pop unit Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean's
Amazing Band, Radar Favourites, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with old
schoolfriend and "Pooh and the Ostrich Feather" member Phil Manzanera
in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. He was a
session musician on The Raincoats' second album, Odyshape, and on one occasion
played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. For this show Charles will be
performing two pieces for percussion including ‘Bell Agency’ and ‘30 Minute
Snare Drum Roll’.
https://www.facebook.com/charleshayward.official/
EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD will also perform in solo mode with
Benjamin D. Duvall presenting a mesmeric new work for prepared guitars and FM
radios, tuning into the furthermost territories of the groups' unique
vocabulary in pursuit of resonances sympathetic or otherwise. Ex-Easter Island
Head's new LP, ‘Twenty-Two Strings’ is released August 5th by Low Point
records.
https://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/
Have a wonderful weekend, see you
soon!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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RATTLE - Album
launch!
CHARLES HAYWARD (Performing 30 Minute Snare Roll / Bell Agency)
EX-EASTER ISLAND
HEAD (Solo)
Thursday 11 August
St Pancras Old
Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/367858
CHRIS COHEN
PIKELET
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
TERRY
THE REBEL
SARCASM
Monday 12 September
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
PEGA MONSTRO
SOOK
Wednesday 21 September
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
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
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361817
GRUMBLING FUR
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/grumbling-fur-tickets
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
LC PUMPKIN
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
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY
WIRES
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
NAP EYES
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
NEGATIVE
SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge
Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/368119
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