Tuesday, 30 May 2017
PRIESTS JOIN DOWNTOWN BOYS TO CO-HEADLINE THE DOME THIS OCTOBER IN LONDON!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
PRIESTS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/405435
PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele (drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash, Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity, Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible, urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what is desired and what is presented.
http://666priests666.tumblr.com/
DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015's Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band's revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock's most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band's righteous assault and captivating presence. The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today.
https://soundcloud.com/subpop/downtown-boys-a-wall
Monday, 29 May 2017
OOIOO and Bamboo in London tomorrow, Nots next week!
Good morning all!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. New date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
OOIOO has always created a
musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a
founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have
subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop
and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel,
their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the
first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient
form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the
past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and
Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed
the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past
and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles,
but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly
shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music
into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric
tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and
texture.
Yoshimi began her music career in 1986
playing drums in UFO or Die with vocalist Eye, and later joined him in
the revolutionary noise-pop group Boredoms. Her explosive drum
performances captivated audiences and even inspired Wayne Coyne to name a
now-famous Flaming Lips album in her honor. While the band's tours of
the United States are infrequent, they are as the New York Times has
stated, transcendent.
BAMBOO is the sublime project
from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of
Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking
into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk
cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo's second studio
album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on
LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of
50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon
Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask
of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion
the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow
and rage. 'The Dragon Flies Away' presents its story in two acts and is
now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric /
artwork sheet. Horwood's evocative paintings are given centre stage with
the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making
the journey all the more immersive.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX,
"nuevo no wavo" band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitars, celestial
synths, and punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful
rhythm section to form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable
but entirely addictive. Drummer Charlotte Watson and guitarist /
frontwoman Natalie Hoffmann are the band's two constants throughout a
handful of roster changes. NOTS' current lineup also includes Alexandra
Eastburn on synth, an instrument she picked up to join NOTS and to
record on their first full-length LP We Are Nots, and bassist Meredith
Lones, another new Memphis musician, and the most recent addition to the
band. NOTS' newest punk-noise-psych-collision LP, Cosmetic,
aggressively follows on the heels of their debut LP, foreshadowing an
ever expanding experiment in direction of things to come for the band.
NOTS have releases on Heavenly & Goner Records, plus a brand new
live 7" on Third Man.
THE WORMS is a stripped-down,
future-primitive negative-capability trio making politely furious snotty
punk minimalism. A snarling update on Messthetics culture with even
more of the fat boiled off and the anger dialed up.
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Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets valid.
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE
FLOWERS MUST DIE
RICHARD DAWSON (Full band show)
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
TERRY
CHILD'S POSE
CHILD'S POSE
HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
SHEER MAG
SPECIAL GUESTS
TV CRIME
Thursday 20 July
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £10 | TICKETS
PIKACYU-MAKOTO
Saturday 12 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
LOWTIDE
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT
Tuesday 21 November
In collaboration with Parallel Lines
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL
7pm | TICKETS
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Downtown Boys back in London this October, new album too!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/405435
DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015’s Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band’s revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock’s most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band’s righteous assault and captivating presence.
The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today.
Monday, 22 May 2017
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Upcoming London concerts for Priests & OOIOO, plus Terry's new album!
Evening everyone!
Thank you for coming out recently to see Ian William Craig and
Ducktails & Co play live, it was great to see so many of you! Our
next concert takes place on Monday with Xiu Xiu, that one has just sold out, so look out below for details of our other two shows in May that are still onsale.
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In terms of other future live shows this week we also announced a further Future Islands performance at Brixton for November 21st. November 20th sold out surprising fast so Baltimore’s finest will be gracing us with a second show. Lucky London!
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I’ll leave you now with a collection of three amazing videos from
the UTR stable that dropped since we last chatted, so much spectacle,
enjoy!
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Terry – ‘Take Me To The City’
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Rattle – ‘True Picture’
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Rat Columns – ‘Blinded By The Shadow’
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
PRIESTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele
(drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor
Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a
valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly
terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious
moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and
Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard
of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister
Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash,
Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like
Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity,
Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible,
urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's
first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon
Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date,
expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from
pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be
understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into
a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the
invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both
the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the
tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what
is desired and what is presented.
THE SNIVELLERS are prime purveyors of groveling punk music from Brighton, featuring members of Joanna Gruesome, Garden Centre & Shecket.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. New date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
OOIOO has always created a
musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a
founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have
subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop
and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel,
their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the
first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient
form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the
past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and
Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed
the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past
and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles,
but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly
shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music
into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric
tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and
texture.
Yoshimi began her music career in 1986
playing drums in UFO or Die with vocalist Eye, and later joined him in
the revolutionary noise-pop group Boredoms. Her explosive drum
performances captivated audiences and even inspired Wayne Coyne to name a
now-famous Flaming Lips album in her honor. While the band's tours of
the United States are infrequent, they are as the New York Times has
stated, transcendent.
BAMBOO is the sublime project
from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of
Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking
into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk
cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo's second studio
album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on
LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of
50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon
Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask
of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion
the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow
and rage. 'The Dragon Flies Away' presents its story in two acts and is
now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric /
artwork sheet. Horwood's evocative paintings are given centre stage with
the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making
the journey all the more immersive.
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Thanks as always for your time!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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XIU XIU
ICE CREAM
SCOTT HARDWARE
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | SOLD OUT
PRIESTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets valid.
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE
FLOWERS MUST DIE
RICHARD DAWSON (Full band show)
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
TERRY
CHILD'S POSE
CHILD'S POSE
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
SHEER MAG
Thursday 20 July
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £10 | TICKETS
PIKACYU-MAKOTO
Saturday 12 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
LOWTIDE
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT
Tuesday 21 November
In collaboration with Parallel Lines
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL
7pm | TICKETS
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
LISTEN - Pega Monstro - 'Cachupa'
Wonderland have just premiered this excellent brand new track by Pega Monstro about a traditional stew called 'Cachupa' that's as hard to digest as a lot of modern life, check it out! 'Cachupa' is taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Casa de Cima', out June 2nd on Upset The Rhythm.
Nots and The Worms playing London next month!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX, "nuevo no
wavo" band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitars, celestial synths, and
punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful rhythm section to
form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable but entirely addictive.
Drummer Charlotte Watson and guitarist Natalie Hoffmann are the band's two
constants throughout a handful of roster changes. NOTS' current lineup also
includes Alexandra Eastburn on synth, an instrument she picked up to join NOTS
and to record on their first full-length LP ‘We Are Nots’, and bassist Meredith
Lones, another new Memphis musician, and the most recent addition to the band.
NOTS' newest punk-noise-psych-collision LP, ‘Cosmetic’, aggressively follows on
the heels of their debut LP, foreshadowing an ever expanding experiment in
direction of things to come for the band. NOTS have releases on Heavenly &
Goner Records, plus a brand new live 7" on Third Man.
THE WORMS
is a stripped-down, future-primitive negative-capability trio making politely
furious snotty punk minimalism. A snarling update on Messthetics culture
with even more of the fat boiled off and the anger dialed up.
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Monday, 15 May 2017
WATCH - Rattle's brand new video for 'True Picture'
Watch Rattle's magnificent video for 'True Picture' premiering now on
Tom Tom Mag! Features significant cameos from Park Hill housing estate
in Sheffield.
Here's the tour poster for their upcoming tour of Spain too!
Friday, 12 May 2017
Future Islands - second show at Brixton just announced!
Second show announced for Future Islands at Brixton later this November!
London is lucky! Looking forward!
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
'Wake Up Your Heart' by BAMBOO
'Wake Up Your Heart' by Bamboo will be released as a
digital single on Friday 12th May along with a Nico Marcel remix of
'Always Running'. 'Wake Up My Heart' is taken from Bamboo's forthcoming
album 'The Dragon Flies Away' out May 26th on Upset The Rhythm.
www.bamboosongs.co.uk
www.bamboosongs.co.uk
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Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Monday, 8 May 2017
Upset The Rhythm playlist of new and forthcoming tracks!
Beautiful Freaks kindly invited us to make a playlist for them, so here it is! Lots of recent and forthcoming new music from Upset The Rhythm.
Here’s a selection of tracks taken from our most recent and upcoming
releases stretching out to September this year. Where better to start
than with ‘Start The Tape’, perhaps Melbourne’s finest ode to Helen
Mirren. Taken from Terry’s new album ‘Remember Terry’ which is coming out at the start of
July, they’ll also be touring Europe around the same time, exciting
times!
Bamboo
are up next with their deeply evocative ‘Wake Up Your Heart’,
technically Act II Scene II from their incredible concept album ‘The
Dragon Flies Away’ out May 26th.
New signing Robert Sotelo dazzles with
‘Bronte Paths’ next, he doesn’t “want to be there when the people come
for change”, fair enough! Look out September as this is when his debut
album ‘Cusp’ will greet the day.
‘Jealous’ by Feature follows, although
no longer an active pursuit Feature have delivered an immense epitaph
with ‘Banishing Ritual’ out now!
Lisbon, Portugal’s Pega Monstro step up
for the next track, whipping up a frenzy of rhythmic excess before
sending their siren calls across the rough sea. Their new album entitled
‘Casa De Cima’ will be released through Upset
The Rhythm on June 2nd, not long now!
Where do you want to go now? How
about Japan? Pikacyu from Afrirampo and Makoto Kawabata from Acid
Mother’s Temple have teamed up to bring us a colossal album of psych pop
oddities. Coming out in August ‘Galaxilympics’ takes you to places on
the fringe of the known sonic galaxy and sounds all the more glorious
for it.
Nearing the finish now we have Rat Columns
who are presently touring Europe in support of their brand new record
‘Candle Power’. ‘Is This Really What You’re Like’ showcases what Rat
Columns do best, mixing upbeat music with downhearted subject matter,
its a tour de force of emotional pull and push.
The final track on this
mix comes originally from 1982 and sees Normil Hawaiians go epic with
one of their earliest long form songs taking in ghostly percussion,
questing synths and Guy Smith’s typically impassioned vocal delivery.
‘British Warm’ is taken from the band’s first album ‘More Wealth Than
Money’ which we will be reissuing later this year. Thanks for listening!
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Saturday, 6 May 2017
Ian William Craig and Resina playing London this Monday!
Evening all!
Thanks for coming out to see Ex-Cult
and Future Islands this week. Our next concert falls on Monday evening at OSLO
in Hackney with a rare appearance from Ian
William Craig. Craig is from Canada and specialises in a swirling
alchemical balance of majestic drone, keyboard zoning and vocal manipulation. Check
out his brand new EP ‘Slow Vessels’, streaming here:
IWC will be joined by his 130701 label-mate
Resina, who will be coming over from
Warsaw to perform her entrancing cello compositions. We’re seriously excited
for the evening, read on for the full story.
In other event news this week we
confirmed a London concert in August for Pikacyu-Makoto,
plus we are also working with them
on an album excitingly! Pikacyu-Makoto is an alliance between two figureheads
of underground Japanese psych/pop, the musically promiscuous Kawabata Makoto
(most famous for his leadership of the legendary Acid Mothers Temple), and
Afrirampo's Pikacyu. Tickets onsale for that one now.
Next week also sees our biggest show yet with Future Islands go onsale at the O2 Academy Brixton for November 20th.
From 10am on Monday the O2 presale tickets go live whilst Wednesday morning at
10am everyone has a chance to buy tickets for this momentous concert, following
on from their barnstorming Dome performance last Thursday! Please find the
ticket link for that one in our programme that concludes this message.
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IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO,
1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
IAN
WILLIAM CRAIG
is a sound artist, award-winning printmaker, classically-trained vocalist,
writer, photographer, composer and performer, who currently resides in
Vancouver. His visual and sonic research has been exhibited and published
internationally, and he has participated in various residencies and
performances across his native Canada and beyond. Drawing out analogies between
his dual practices of music and print-making, Ian's work is deeply informed by
a narrative of impermanence, "notions of life as an act of becoming, and
beauty within degradation and deterioration". Blending choral, ambient and
noise influences together into this customised array of tape decks, Craig moves
you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic improvisations, fields of tape
hiss and haunting pastoral melodies. Running on a combination of classical
vocal training and process-based uncertainty, his music delivers an elegant
balance between theatrical and ambient sentiments, by combining the essence of
a choral album from Angel Records or Deutsche Grammophon with the distorted
spontaneity of experimental home-recording and the likes of Fennesz or William
Basinski.
After moving to Vancouver following his
studies, Ian began creating albums from his new home. His first recordings were
digitally self-released via Bandcamp between 2011 and 2013. Stunningly textured
and vaporous, the majority of these releases are largely voiceless. It was when
Craig turned to his background in musical theatre, avant-classical
orchestration and the choral tradition for A Forgetting Place (2013) and his
first two physical releases, A Turn of Breath (2014) and Cradle for the Wanting
(2015), where the real breakthrough would be made, with Ian's voice rising
firmly to the fore. Both latter albums were issued by the excellent Californian
label Recital Program to widespread critical acclaim, his latest album
'Centres' came out last year through FatCat's 130701 imprint (Max Richter,
Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran, Johann Johannsson, etc).
RESINA is the alias of Karolina Rec, a
cellist and composer based in Warsaw, Poland. Born 1982, Karolina graduated
from the Music Academy in Gdansk and the University of Gdansk. Active in
Poland's independent music scene since the late '00s, she was co-founder /
collaborator of some of Poland's most influential alternative bands: Kings of
Caramel, Cieslak and Princess, Nathalie And The Loners, Anthony Chorale and
more. She has featured on numerous album releases and soundtracks (including
the Oscar-nominated 'Rabbit a la Berlin'), and has been the author of a dozen
music productions for theatre. A compulsive live artist, Karolina's style is
primarily characterized by personal language of improvisation and alternative
approach to melody. She has collaborated with Scott McCloud, Paul Brody, Piotr
Kurek, Coldair, Scianka and many other artists.
Resina was signed to 130701 in February
2016, having sent in a hugely impressive demo. Her self-titled debut album is a
result of experiments with cello and simple electronic tools - sometimes close
to the form of song; sometimes based more on powerful, intuitive impressions
but always marked by the desire to use non-obvious characteristics of the
instrument. It is set for release later in 2016.
Thanks so much for your time!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO,
1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
DUCKTAILS
JAMES FERRARO
SPENCER CLARK
Friday 12 May
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm
| SOLD OUT
XIU XIU
ICE CREAM
SCOTT HARDWARE
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3
Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12
| https://www.wegottickets.com/event/390523
PRIESTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO,
1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3
Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
NB. This is the
new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
NOTS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE
Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396842
Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396842
RICHARD DAWSON
(Full band show)
(Full band show)
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396949
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396949
TERRY
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/393203
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/393203
SHEER MAG
Thursday
20 July
Islington
Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
PIKACYU-MAKOTO
Saturday 12
August
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm |
£7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/401265
SPRAY
PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2
6NB
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village
Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London,
EC2A 3PQ
NB. This is the
new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
LOWTIDE
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel,
London, N1 0XT
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November (In collaboration with Parallel Lines)
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9
9SL
7pm I O2 pre-sale tickets live at 10am Monday, general
public tickets onsale 10am Wednesday here:
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