Radio show - Episode 4!

Hello 2017!
Before the year bows out, here’s the fourth episode of our radio show for CAMP. 120 minutes of lots of our favourite music from Arthur Lee Harper to Yura Yura Teikoku, including some recent live snippets from Richard Dawson and Spirit Fest, enjoy!





Upset The Rhythm - Episode 4
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01. La Dusseldorf - White Overalls
02. Soft Drinks - Pop Stars in Their Pyjamas
03. The Green Child - Her Majesty II
04. Bunny & The Lakers - Cops on Parade
05. Tickawinda - A Lyke Wake Dirge
06. Colin Thompson - Brisk, Young, Lively Lad
07. Richard Dawson - Live at Upset The Rhythm
08. Crack Cloud - Swish Swash
09. Yura Yura Teikoku - Soft Death
10. No Babies - The Weight
11. Nosferatu - Spectator
12. World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
13. Reiko Kudo - We Maybe
14. Arthur Lee Harper - Valentine Gray
15. Spirit Fest - Live at Upset The Rhythm
16. Greenfield Leisure - L’Orange
17. David West With Teardrops - Cherry On Willow
18. Bobby Brown - The Boy a Sailor
19. Allen Toussaint - Electricity
20. Richard Dawson - Live at Upset The Rhythm
21. Roscoe Mitchell - Sing
22. Sibylle Baier - Wim
23. Donovan - Pebble And The Man
24. Gimmer Nicholson - Venus Cumulus
25. Dr. Strangely Strange - A Tale of Two Orphanages
26. Rexy - Send in the Clones
27. Superstar & Star - No More Sorrow
28. Upp - Thursday
29. Colin Potter - Behind You
30. Buchenfeld - Fragments
31. Morton Feldman - Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara) 9. Legato
32. Chain & The Gang - I Hate Winners

The Green Child - 'Traveler' premieres!

I think Chris De Burgh said it best...

"This lovely music went trembling through the ground,
And many were wakened on hearing that sound,
And travelers…"

Listen to another new track from The Green Child, courtesy of Raven Sings The Blues.

Richard Dawson & Normil Hawaiians play London next Wednesday, plus news on The Green Child album!

Seasonal salutations! We’re getting very near our final show of the year now, this coming Wednesday we have rather excitingly… Richard Dawson & Normil Hawaiians both playing at Islington Assembly Hall. Richard released our favourite album of the year, whilst Normil Hawaiians’ 1982 debut just saw a timely re-issue through Upset The Rhythm this very month. It’ll be a meeting of musical minds that’s for sure. As we’re down to the last few dozen tickets now, it’s well worth picking one up in advance if you haven’t already as it will be the perfect way to see off 2017 in style.

You can also find below the whole write-up alongside our newly announced show listings for Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Eric Chenaux and Joshua Abrams & his Natural Information Society. Grasping the record label baton for a swift passage, this week Upset The Rhythm also announced our first release of 2018. This January we’re beyond happy to help The Green Child release their self-titled debut into the world. 'The Green Child' is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.  Noisey just helped us announce the record by premiering the duo’s colossal closing statement 'Destroyer'! Have a listen here…

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their music is broadly retro-futuristic in scope, with Mikey’s verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpinning most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

We’d like to leave you today in festive company with this Xmas anthem re-imagined, let the bells ring out for Bamboo with their majestic cover of East 17’s classic ‘Stay Another Day’.

Upset The Rhythm presents… RICHARD DAWSON NORMIL HAWAIIANS Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS RICHARD DAWSON can never been accused by listeners of a lack of artistic ambition. Whether they got on at the last stop - the 4 track Tyneside-Trout-Mask-through a-Vic and Bob-filter of 'Nothing Important' - or earlier in the journey, with 'The Glass Trunk's visceral song cycle or 'The Magic Bridge's sombre revels. Devotees of his earlier recordings will be at once intrigued by and slightly fearful of the prospect of a record that could make those three landmark releases look like formative work. 'Peasant' is that album, released on June 2nd through Weird World / Domino. From its first beguilingly muted fanfare to its spectacular climax exploring a Dark Ages masseuse's dangerous fascination with a mysterious artefact called the Pin of Quib, it will grab newcomers to Dawson's work by the scruff of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of life-long allegiance. Driven forward by exhilarating guitar flurries, Qawwali handclaps and bursts of choral ferocity, 'Peasant's eleven tracks sustain a momentum worthy of the lyrics' urgent subject matter. Dawson describes the themes of these songs as "Families struggling, families being broken up by circumstance, and - how do you keep it together? In the face of all of these horrors that life, or some system of life, is throwing at you?" The fact that these meticulously wrought narratives all unfold in the pre-mediaeval North Eastern kingdom of Bryneich - "any time from about 450AD to 780AD, after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire"- only makes their contemporary relevance more enduring. Dawson's objective was to create "A panorama of a society which is at odds with itself and has great sickness in it, and perhaps doesn't take responsibility - blame going in all the wrong directions". But encountering 'Peasant's captivating sequence of occupational archetypes ('Herald', 'Ogre', 'Weaver', 'Scientist'), listeners might find themselves wondering if these multitudes could somehow be contained with one person. Dawson has already supported the release of 'Peasant' with a full UK tour - his first featuring a full live band. After wowing audiences at St John On Bethnal Green this June, it's a pleasure to welcome Richard back for an Xmas show with live band to play the esteemed Islington Assembly Hall. http://richarddawson.net/ NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions. At this very moment the group existed solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the shadow of Foel Studios in the Welsh hills, sharing everything together and working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had discovered between them. This is how the band's debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' was formed, through trial and close listening, through cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were creating something unique. 'More Wealth Than Money' will be re-issued lavishly on double LP this December through Upset The Rhythm, they are celebrating this release by performing t this special Xmas show at Islington Assembly Hall too. http://normilhawaiians.com/

See you next week, thanks for your time! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

RICHARD DAWSON NORMIL HAWAIIANS Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS MOOR MOTHER NO HOME Wednesday 10 January The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DAVID NANCE Monday 5 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS SHOPPING Tuesday 6 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS GUN OUTFIT Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS CHAIN AND THE GANG Monday 26 February OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS SHANNON LAY Wednesday 7 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS NO AGE Wednesday 4 April Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £12 | TICKETS JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu) ERIC CHENAUX Monday 9 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS PROTOMARTYR Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society will visit London next April!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Monday 2 April
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
8pm | £11 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/425607

Joshua Abrams developed his voice in the rich ferment of the 1990s Chicago music world, participating heavily across the city’s jazz, experimental & rock scenes. He co-founded the ‘back porch minimalist’ band Town & Country &, with Matana Roberts & Chad Taylor, the trio Sticks & Stones. In a very busy two decades Abrams recorded & toured with a remarkable range of artists including extended engagements with Fred Anderson, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Hamid Drake, Theaster Gates, Neil Michael Hagerty, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Mike Reed, Matana Roberts, & The Roots. Abrams appears on over one hundred recordings. A film composer, Abrams has scored the music for five feature length films including the award-winning films Life Itself, The Interrupters and The Trials of Muhammad Ali.




Since 2010 Joshua Abrams has toured North America & Europe with a shifting-line up of musicians as 'Natural Information Society’. The group uses traditional & electric instrumentation to build long-form intricately psychedelic environments, composed & improvised, joining the hypnotic qualities of the Gnawan guimbri to a wide range of contemporary musics & methodologies including jazz, minimalism & krautrock. The band's album, Magnetoception (eremite), was selected by The Wire Magazine as the #3 record of 2015 & by Pitchfork as the #2 experimental record of the year. Current & former band members include Lisa Alvarado, Jason Adasiewicz, Mikel Avery, Ben Boye, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Emmett Kelly, Artur Majewski, Nick Mazzarella, Jeff Parker, Frank Rosaly, Jason Stein, Kuba Suchar, Nori Tanaka & Chad Taylor. In 2015, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas collaborated on ‘Automaginary,’ (Drag City). Their latest album, 'Simultonality' continues NIS's exploration of stasis, continuity, repetition and layering. 'Simultonality' was released back in April, 2017 on eremite records & Glitterbeat.
http://naturalinformationsociety.com/ 

LISTEN: Bamboo - Stay Another Day

Let the bells ring out for Bamboo, here they are with their festive take on East 17's classic Xmas anthem, enjoy!

Jamie Stewart & Eric Chenaux to play London next April!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu)

ERIC CHENAUX

Monday 9 April

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/425102

JAMIE STEWART has spent 2017 showing how skilled he is at multi-tasking, having toured the most recent Xiu Xiu album 'Forever', piled on the sonic pressure with Lawrence English as HEXA and having paid final homage to The Music Of Twin Peaks. 2018 sees that all change with Jamie committing to some rare solo performances. The format is simple: Jamie, electric guitar and voice, reducing the Xiu Xiu songs you know and love down to their most fragile husk state. As the principle songwriter, musician and vocalist behind avant-pop legends Xiu Xiu, Jamie Stewart is very much one of UTR's favourite artists. Jamie draws heavily from wildly disparate sources - cacophonous noise, gamelan, folk and the lush hooks of 80s UK post-punk, to name a few - while his tortured lyrics and anguished delivery consistently deal with the morose, suspected and the taboo. Expect new material, unusual covers and favourite tracks from the Xiu Xiu back catalogue, making for a truly memorable experience.

www.xiuxiu.org

ERIC CHENAUX is an adventurous guitarist, singer and composer based in Paris. Having been an active player in Toronto experimental music circles with a host of group and collaborative works, Chenaux has more recently amassed a body of solo work across five albums on the Constellation label, centering around his dextrous, fried guitar playing as juxtaposed with a gorgeously lyrical vocal style. An ingenious recombinant use of traditional folk, psychedelic pop and consort music in earlier albums has over time evolved into a wholly uncategorisable form of balladry, shot through with a singular vernacular of guitar improvisation.

http://cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux/

The Green Child - debut album announced!

Noisey just helped us announce out next record, The Green Child's self-titled debut album, by premiering colossal closing statement 'Destroyer'!

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The Green Child. 

With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.

The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?

‘The Green Child’ is due for release on January 12^th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

Available to pre-order here now!

Artist:  The Green Child

Title: The Green Child

Label: Upset The Rhythm

Catalogue Number:  UTR102

Formats: LP / DIGITAL

Running Time:  39 mins

Release Date:  Friday 12 January

Track listing:

01. Traveler

02. Her Majesty II

03. Bertha

04. New Years Eve

05. 46 Timelines

06. Walking Distance

07. Marie Elene

08. Destroyer

Normil Hawaiians - 'More Wealth Than Money' released today!

Morning everyone!   What a brilliant day, flecked with snow and ice and sharp winter light. Thirty-five years ago Normil Hawaiians released their debut album 'More Wealth Than Money', today we’re thrilled to re-release this stunning album so it can stride out into its unique field of sound again.   ‘More Wealth Than Money’ takes the listener on a quest over its four sides of vinyl as the group’s communal take on post punk starts sprouting leaves from its mouth, beginning to carve out a new furrow of dark psychedelia, industrial folk and a peculiarly British kosmische.

Alongside the re-mastered original double-album, our new re-issue includes a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners.

Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions for this record. As a result ‘More Wealth Than Money’ still feels truly expansive, brave, cinematic even as it documents the band’s travels into a plaintive pastoralism awash with waking dreams.   ‘More Wealth Than Money’ sings anew today, getting its first proper UK release ever. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. It is truly a thing of beauty! Available in all good record shops as of now, or if you prefer our webshop here.

We’ll also be selling copies of ‘More Wealth Than Money’ at the Café OTO Xmas Fair this Sunday too. We’ll be proffering many potential Xmas presents in the form of records, cds, t-shirts etc from noon through to 5pm.   Lots of our favourite labels and imprints will be there too including Skire, Golden Lab, Chocolate Monk, Penultimate Press, Where to Now?, Strange Attractor, Kye, Ecstatic Peace Library, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Treader. Please stop by, listen to something new, share a mulled beverage with us and say hello!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   RICHARD DAWSON NORMIL HAWAIIANS Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON can never been accused by listeners of a lack of artistic ambition. Whether they got on at the last stop - the 4 track Tyneside-Trout-Mask-through a-Vic and Bob-filter of 'Nothing Important' - or earlier in the journey, with 'The Glass Trunk's visceral song cycle or 'The Magic Bridge's sombre revels. Devotees of his earlier recordings will be at once intrigued by and slightly fearful of the prospect of a record that could make those three landmark releases look like formative work. 'Peasant' is that album, released on June 2nd through Weird World / Domino. From its first beguilingly muted fanfare to its spectacular climax exploring a Dark Ages masseuse's dangerous fascination with a mysterious artefact called the Pin of Quib, it will grab newcomers to Dawson's work by the scruff of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of life-long allegiance.   Driven forward by exhilarating guitar flurries, Qawwali handclaps and bursts of choral ferocity, 'Peasant's eleven tracks sustain a momentum worthy of the lyrics' urgent subject matter. Dawson describes the themes of these songs as "Families struggling, families being broken up by circumstance, and - how do you keep it together? In the face of all of these horrors that life, or some system of life, is throwing at you?" The fact that these meticulously wrought narratives all unfold in the pre-mediaeval North Eastern kingdom of Bryneich - "any time from about 450AD to 780AD, after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire"- only makes their contemporary relevance more enduring.   Dawson's objective was to create "A panorama of a society which is at odds with itself and has great sickness in it, and perhaps doesn't take responsibility - blame going in all the wrong directions". But encountering 'Peasant's captivating sequence of occupational archetypes ('Herald', 'Ogre', 'Weaver', 'Scientist'), listeners might find themselves wondering if these multitudes could somehow be contained with one person. Dawson has already supported the release of 'Peasant' with a full UK tour - his first featuring a full live band. After wowing audiences at St John On Bethnal Green this June, it's a pleasure to welcome Richard back for an Xmas show with live band to play the esteemed Islington Assembly Hall. http://richarddawson.net/   NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions.   At this very moment the group existed solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the shadow of Foel Studios in the Welsh hills, sharing everything together and working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had discovered between them. This is how the band's debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' was formed, through trial and close listening, through cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were creating something unique. 'More Wealth Than Money' will be re-issued lavishly on double LP this December through Upset The Rhythm, they are celebrating this release by performing t this special Xmas show at Islington Assembly Hall too. http://normilhawaiians.com/

Have a fantastic weekend, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

RICHARD DAWSON NORMIL HAWAIIANS Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS   MOOR MOTHER NO HOME Wednesday 10 January The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   DAVID NANCE Monday 5 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SHOPPING Tuesday 6 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   GUN OUTFIT Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CHAIN AND THE GANG Monday 26 February OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY Wednesday 7 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   NO AGE Wednesday 4 April Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

Get Shopping in February! New show announced!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SHOPPING

Tuesday 6 February

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/424325

SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche, look out for a new album ‘The Official Body’ through FatCat imminently!
https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband

Shannon Lay is heading to London next March!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SHANNON LAY
Wednesday 7 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/424308

SHANNON LAY is a L.A. singer-songwriter whose new album, ‘Living Water’, is a work of plainspoken mysticism that goes to the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. ‘Living Water’ was recorded by Emmet Kelly (Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in his Los Angeles home studio and you can even hear the room reacting to the music taking shape around it. Shannon has a voice that transcends time and space. You can’t tell if she’s old or new, if she’s sitting next to you, on a mountain top, or down in some canyon. Already her second LP to be released in 2017, Shannon is a prolific songwriter, one who lives and breathes melody and with guitar skills to boot. Despite it’s 14 tracks, Living Water comes in well under 40 minutes, but like Pink Moon or Just Another Diamond Day before it, this is music so potent it exists outside the realms of time – but in a world specific only to itself and the new feelings it creates. ’Living Water’ is a life-affirming celebration of the wounds we all wear, captured with Shannon’s deceptively straightforward approach. Like a late-summer sky the colour of a robin’s egg, the album’s outward simplicity masks the vastness of what lies behind. Having just finished a tour with Ty Segall, Shannon is set to support Kevin Morby on a national tour this winter.
https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm's RADIO SHOW - Episode 3!

Hello December!
Pass the time away with our third installment of Upset The Rhythm’s radio show for CAMP. Spend two hours in our company whilst we play lots of favourite records alongside a plethora of live recordings from the past month’s concerts too. Hope you enjoy the music!



Upset The Rhythm - Episode 3
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01. Oppenheimer Analysis - Subterranean Desire
02. The Green Child - Destroyer
03. Agincourt - Mirabella
04. Normil Hawaiians - An Old Standard
05. Spirit Fest - Hitori Matsuri
06. Alice Coltrane - Keshava Murahara
07. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pioneers Over C
08. Roy Montgomery - Live at Upset The Rhythm
09. Ghedalia Tazartes - IX
10. Gary War - Retrograde Reality
11. No Age - Soft Collar Fad
12. Escape-ism - Live at Upset The Rhythm
13. Odwalla88 - Giggle
14. Departmentstore Santas - W
15. Amazing Space Frogs - Nuns Of Destruction
16. Rapid Dance - Fragments Of Youth
17. The Plan - Live at Upset The Rhythm
18. Doof - (Treat Me Like) The Man I Am
19. Sonny Sharrock - Bialero
20. Bill Orcutt - Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
21. Bachdenkel - Come All Ye Faceless
22. Hoelderlin - Erwachen
23. Eyeless In Gaza - Snow Theme
24. Chaos U.K. - The End Is Nigh

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk