Afternoon one and all!
Happy days for Upset The Rhythm as
today is a new release day! Ravioli Me
Away’s impressive new album entitled Living
Is A Myth makes its way out in the world. Ravioli Me Away are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway, Alice Theobald and
more recently Monika Krol. Un-defined by genre,
Ravioli Me Away’s high-energy music is stylistically schizophrenic. This is
social realism soaked through with a heady dose of illusion, idiosyncratic
poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described by the band
as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the
sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in
the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.”
Living
Is A Myth is the group’s
second album and it’s a tour de force of surreal pop, exploring symptoms of society through its
overlapping patterns of ideas and music. Always inventive, clatter-some
drumbeats drive the songs onwards, whilst the bass plunges through the fantastical
worlds emerging from the woozy pools of formidable keyboard tone. Melody and
reiteration are at the forefront, with Dorrer’s wordplay and sublime delivery
racing through the songs with effortless style. Their gatefold LP is
accompanied by an A1 poster of the band, an orange slice of vinyl and a lyric
book with download code. You can buy Living
Is A Myth from shops worldwide as of now or from our very own webshop here!
We’ll also be selling copies of Living Is A Myth tomorrow at the remarkable
Independent Label Market in
Spitalfields. From 11am-6pm Upset The Rhythm will be selling our wares
including records, rarities, posters and t-shirts from our stall to all and
sundry. We’ll have some brilliant bargains for your Xmas shopping plans and
mince pies spilling off the table, so feel free to stop by, say hello, drop off
a demo and swig some of our ginger wine from under the table! There are many
other labels participating so it’s always a great event, plus lots of local
breweries will be serving up pints galore, what’s not to like!
Today we’re also announcing a new concert for our good friend Cian Nugent who will be coming back to
London in February. Cian
is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, who combines
suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s-'70s singer-songwriters,
jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school all into his
deeply personal style. In support we are very lucky to have Mega Bog aka Erin Birgy swirling her
lush incantations into your ears too. The full show listing concludes this
message, tickets on sale now.
We’ll leave you with the full listing
of our final show of the year, an Upset
The Rhythm Xmas Party coinciding with our 13th birthday too.
Taking place on Saturday 17th December at Bethnal Green Working
Men’s Club we have a rich pageant of entertainments planned including live
performances from Rattle, Ravioli Me Away, Guttersnipe, Blood Sport
and Apostille! We hope you can join
us!
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17 DECEMBER /////
Upset The Rhythm
Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
APOSTILLE is the recording and performing project of Night
School honcho Michael Kasparis (of Please and The Lowest Form). Having started
as a home-damaged pop music, Apostille has grown into a live-wire synth punk
prospect that bridges physicality with emotive bleed. Insistent flickering
beats hold down a sturdy framework for Kasparis' clouds of echoed vocals and
synth cluster quests. Sometimes Michael's voice soars above the music, hanging
their like an apparition, other times the cloaked notes surge forwards,
bouncing between distorted handclaps, wonky basslines and oblique incantations
to deliriously wondrous effect. Apostille’s debut album ‘Powerless’ was
released last year through Night School, look out 2017 as a new album is well
on the way!
BLOOD SPORT formed in Sheffield in 2010, and ever since the trio have forged an arresting sound practice from within the city’s industrious art/music community. Their blistering guitar dynamics and pointed-yet-pointillist lyrics meshing into rough-house, techno-gilded polyrhythms, with an untrammelled urgency pervading their tightly wound sound and all that surrounds and informs it. Now the band is set to surge and attack. 2016 will see the fruition of a year’s work in both the live and recorded realms, with new record Axe Laid To The Root released on Blast First Petite following three EPs and a strong debut LP Life In Units, all released on DIY labels – Tye Die Tapes, the band’s own Hybrid Vigour Records and via The Audacious Art Experiment, the record-release wing of the independent arts hub they co-run in Sheffield. Blood Sport have a relentless, heavily structuralist live show, a wall of noise and rhythm delivered with ferocious intensity, girding and grinding the audience into movement. With a background playing squats, raves, art happenings and clubs, the band has increasingly sequenced their set for the dancefloor.
http://bloodsportband.tumblr.com/
GUTTERSNIPE are a Leeds drums/guitar duo who dive straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis – imagine the esoteric mayhem of Angel Blood combined with the venue-destroying psychic power of early Boredoms and Naked City, and you ain’t even close. Comprising the duo of Xylocopa Violacea and Bdallophytum, if Guttersnipe don’t blow away your cobwebs, nothing will.
https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/releases
RAVIOLI ME AWAY are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and Alice Theobald and more recently, have recruited Monika Kroll as an intermittent member. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy, dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with stylistically schizophrenic motifs span all-known past, present and future human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.” This November, RMA will release their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The Rhythm.
RAVIOLI ME AWAY are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and Alice Theobald and more recently, have recruited Monika Kroll as an intermittent member. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy, dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with stylistically schizophrenic motifs span all-known past, present and future human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.” This November, RMA will release their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The Rhythm.
http://raviolimeaway.co.uk/
RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, focusing 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, plus their debut self-titled album was released this Summer on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You.
RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, focusing 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, plus their debut self-titled album was released this Summer on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You.
Huge thanks to
all of you who came out to see our Kristin Hersh concerts this week. Have a
fantastic weekend, thanks for reading!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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Upset The Rhythm
Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
CARLA DAL FORNO
GROSS NET
Saturday 4
February
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
7.30pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382700
DEERHOOF
Monday 6 February
Village
Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London,
EC2A 3PQ
CIAN
NUGENT
MEGA
BOG
Saturday 11 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382844
Saturday 11 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382844
MILKY WIMPSHAKE
‘20th Anniversary
Show!’
Saturday 4 March
The Islington,
1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£8 |
7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382704
