Upcoming London shows for Joshua Abrams, Jamie Stewart & Eric Chenaux!

Hello there! Thanks for coming out this week to see Brigid Mae Power, what a fantastic show that was.   Our next Upset The Rhythm concert falls on Easter Monday at OSLO in Hackney with Joshua Abrams and his spectacular Natural Information Society. With NIS, Abrams crafts simple loops with a three-string African lute called a guimbri, the group then build these motifs up through percussion, harmonium, autoharp etc. into vast, tonally abundant studies in entrancement. Their songs, often nearing the 10 minute mark, surge forward with an energy unique their own, in short it’s immensely hypnotic, multi-layered and deeply contemplative. Can’t recommend this show enough, plus Oblate will open the show with their shifting, cryptic electronics and rhythmic plasticity. Tickets can be bought below from the show link or on the door from 7.30pm this coming Monday.

We’ve also detailed here our upcoming event for Jamie Stewart and Eric Chenaux on Monday 9 April. Taking place at The Lexington, this very special joint headline show will feature Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu interpreting his songs in intimate solo mode, upping the drama and the vulnerability, which promises to be as intense as it will be exultant. It’s always a pleasure to have Eric Chenaux play too, especially off the back of his stunning new album ‘Slowly Paradise’ (Constellation). Expect some serious frazzled fretwork and softly sung vocals, making for a masterful take on sculptural sound, warped jazz and free balladry.   This is going to be a memorable one! Read on for a more in depth look.

Upset The Rhythm presents… JOSHUA ABRAMS (NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY) OBLATE Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS 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/   OBLATE is Lindsay Alexander Corstorphine’s solo electronic project. Best known as Sauna Youth’s guitarist, as well as a member of Primitive Parts and Cold Pumas, Corstorphine continues to showcase his love of repetition and its curious phasing subtleties with Oblate. Building up songs that pulse and cascade with rhythmic fluidity is central to Oblate’s focus, his music shape-shifts and enters a trance-like world of its own mutable complexity. https://soundcloud.com/oblatesound

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 | TICKETS   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. http://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/

Have a terrific Easter, see you on Monday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

JOSHUA ABRAMS (NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY) OBLATE Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS   NO AGE MIAUX VITAL IDLES Wednesday 4 April Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £12 | SOLD OUT   JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu) ERIC CHENAUX Monday 9 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT DOG CHOCOLATE CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA Monday 7 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   NAP EYES HALEY HEYNDERICKX Tuesday 8 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY-JAYNE JONES COBY SEY Wednesday 9 May Ghost Notes, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR ANA DA SILVA RATTLE Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   MARY OCHER Friday 18 May Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES WITCHING WAVES Wednesday 23 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   APOSTILLE Saturday 26 May The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS Thursday 14 June Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP 7.30pm | £15.00 | TICKETS

 

Vital Idles album! Plus upcoming London shows for Joshua Abrams, Jamie Stewart & Eric Chenaux!

Hello Friday!   This week we unveiled another new record that’ll see release over the summer. Joining Dog Chocolate and Apostille’s excellent new albums we’re also presenting the debut LP from Glasgow’s Vital Idles in all its serenely oblique charm. Entitled ‘Left Hand’, the album crackles with a raw, punk approach to writing warped pop songs that don’t just talk of disorder but often actively demonstrate it. At once lyrically complex yet minimal in terrain, ‘Left Hand’ bears a tension that threatens to fall apart into dissonance or resolve into sweetness but thankfully does neither, rather it keeps Vital Idles moving ever forward down new paths of meaning. Have a listen to opening number 'A Premise' now and catch your breath!

For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Playing their first shows in Glasgow in 2015 during a summer that never threatened to show up, Vital Idles’ origins are closely tied with a tireless underground culture, a culture that informs the band’s refusal to take it easy. Matthew Walkerdine, Nick Lynch and Higgins are responsible for Glasgow DIY publishing institution Good Press - an independent volunteer-staffed zine and art book shop - while Guitarist Ruari MacLean’s pedigree stretches back to breakneck-indie-pop group Golden Grrrls and the Rose McDowall band.

Following two self-released demos and a sold out debut 7”, Vital Idles arrive on Upset The Rhythm with ‘Left Hand’, a bare manifesto layered with meaning and non-meaning. The group can conceivably be called artists, or Artists, but in approaching their debut album Vital Idles have stripped away all extraneous ornamentation to sculpt an incredibly life-like, vibrant pop music completely détourned and re-thought.   'Left Hand' is available to pre-order now on yellow and black vinyl editions here!

In terms of live shows on the horizon, Brigid Mae Power and No Age are both sold out now. So look out below for our other events in April that are still on sale.   On Easter Monday we’re very much looking forward to welcoming back the brilliant talent that is Joshua Abrams and his stunning Natural Information Society group back to London.   Then on April 9th at The Lexington we have an incredible double headline show planned from Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Constellation’s Eric Chenaux. Both of those events promise great things, can’t wait for them to roll round. Full listings for both follow below along with our programme which features a newly added concert for Apostille in late May.

Here’s a soundtrack for your weekend. Spring has arrived with the seventh installment of our Upset The Rhythm radio show for CAMP. Two hours of all our favourite sounds from Orbidöig to Paul Ngozi via Eric Chenaux. Lots of new Upset The Rhythm tracks from Apostille, Dog Chocolate and Vital Idles feature, plus some recent live snippets from past shows too.   LISTEN!

Upset The Rhythm presents… JOSHUA ABRAMS (NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY) OBLATE Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS 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/   OBLATE is Lindsay Alexander Corstorphine’s solo electronic project. Best known as Sauna Youth’s guitarist, as well as a member of Primitive Parts and Cold Pumas, Corstorphine continues to showcase his love of repetition and its curious phasing subtleties with Oblate. Building up songs that pulse and cascade with rhythmic fluidity is central to Oblate’s focus, his music shape-shifts and enters a trance-like world of its own mutable complexity. https://soundcloud.com/oblatesound

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 | TICKETS   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. http://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/

Thanks for reading, have a great weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BRIGID MAE POWER DANIEL O'SULLIVAN Tuesday 27 March Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | SOLD OUT   JOSHUA ABRAMS (NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY) OBLATE Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS   NO AGE MIAUX VITAL IDLES Wednesday 4 April Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £12 | SOLD OUT   JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu) ERIC CHENAUX Monday 9 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT Monday 7 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   NAP EYES HALEY HEYNDERICKX Tuesday 8 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY-JAYNE JONES COBY SEY Wednesday 9 May Ghost Notes, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR ANA DA SILVA RATTLE Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   MARY OCHER Friday 18 May Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES WITCHING WAVES Wednesday 23 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   APOSTILLE Saturday 26 May The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS Thursday 14 June Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP 7.30pm | £15.00 | TICKETS

Upset The Rhythm - RADIO SHOW 7

Alright there!
Spring arrives with the seventh instalment of our radio show for CAMP. Two hours of all our favourite sounds from Orbidöig to Paul Ngozi via Eric Chenaux. Lots of new Upset The Rhythm tracks from Apostille, Dog Chocolate and Vital Idles feature, plus some recent live snippets from Rattle, Chain And The Gang and Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano, here you go!




Upset The Rhythm - Episode 7
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01. Apostille - Thirteen Minutes
02. Orbidöig - Nocturnal Operations
03. Legendary Pink Dots - Surprise, Surprise
04. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society - Sideways Fall
05. Vital Idles - A Premise
06. Dog Chocolate - Tesco Flag
07. Yximalloo - Fuli Fuli 11
08. Rattle - Live at Upset The Rhythm
09. John Surman - Prelude and Rustic Dance
10. Eric Chenaux - Wild Moon
11. Oliver - Off On A Trek
12. Itsuroh Shimoda - Everybody Anyone
13. Chain And The Gang - Live at Upset The Rhythm
14. Ed Schrader’s Music Beat - Culebra
15. Kuny - I Can See The Changes
16. Paul Ngozi - Suicide
17. The Particles - Dresses And Shoes
18. Lithics - Photograph
19. Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano - Live at Upset The Rhythm
20. Galliard - I Wrapped Her In Ribbons
21. Mikhail Chekalin - Bucolic Tunes

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk

Apostille - London show and UK tour announced!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

APOSTILLE
Saturday 26 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/434857

APOSTILLE is a man who’s torn through enough sound-systems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label, Glasgow native, Michael Kasparis has spent the last few years making forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture, Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. His audacious 2015 debut album ‘Powerless’  self-released through Night School set the template by hooking up his honest delivery to some manic expositions in electronic pop. At once minimal and courageous with intent to connect, Apostille songs race off with unchecked abandon, skittering drum machines, thick walls of sequenced synth and decidedly elastic basslines. ‘Choose Life’ (out June 8th on Upset The Rhythm) is both the album Apostille chose to make and had to make. He dialled down the clown, built up a new-found confidence in his voice and melody in general and began to feel more at home in the refuge of pop music (with a capital P). All the truest pop music speaks to us of escape and through this new album Apostille allows its transformative power to fully manifest. It’s an album full of life and energy, and like his live show as disobedient as it is heroic in its pursuit of liberation.
https://apostille.bandcamp.com/ 







UK TOUR DATES
APOSTILLE

23/05 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
25/05 - Bristol, UK @ Stag And Hounds
26/05 - London, UK @ The Victoria
27/05 - Brighton, UK @ The Pipeline
28/05 - Cardiff, UK @ The Undertone
31/05 - Leeds, UK @ Wharf Chambers
01/06 - Newcastle, UK @ Star & Shadow
02/06 - Glasgow, UK @ The Art School
 

Vital Idles - 'Left Hand' album announced!

Beyond excited to announce that we're releasing VITAL IDLES debut album entitled 'Left Hand' in a few months time. They've been one of our favourite UK groups since we saw them play with Vexx and Sauna Youth in Manchester a few years back, so we're thrilled to have this record in the works. Clash have just premiered the opening track from the album, have a listen to 'A Premise' now and catch your breath!



'Left Hand' is available to pre-order now on yellow and black vinyl editions here:
http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/product/vital-idles-left-hand-pre-order

Catch Vital Idles at the following shows:

March
30 Liverpool The Buyer's Club £
31 Manchester Soup Kitchen £

April
1 Glasgow Mono £
3 Birmingham Hare & Hounds £
4 London Bethnal Green Working Men's Club £
6 York The Crescent Community Venue $

£ with No Age
$ with Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

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Apostille album detailed! Plus Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt this weekend in London!

Good morning!   This week Upset The Rhythm announced our forthcoming album by Apostille. Alongside running his own DIY record label, Glasgow native, Michael Kasparis has spent the last few years making forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture, Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. His audacious 2015 debut album ‘Powerless’ self-released through Night School set the template by hooking up his honest delivery to some manic expositions in electronic pop.

Now, Apostille’s intrepid new album Choose Life updates the mission statement with its courageous intent to connect, becoming a triumph of substance. ‘Choose Life’ will be released on LP, CD and digitally through Upset The Rhythm on June 8th, plus our webshop has just opened it’s pre-order for a special limited transparent red vinyl version of the record too. Here’s the first track to greet the ear from the album, ‘Feel Bad’.

‘Choose Life’ is both the album Apostille chose to make and had to make. He dialled down the clown, built up a new-found confidence in his voice and melody in general and began to feel more at home in the refuge of pop music (with a capital P). As Kasparis explains “Choose Life began as a chronicle of a bad time. Many of the songs were written as some sort of catharsis, an escape from a tumultuous couple of years. The album title was intended as ironic at first but as the writing process went on the album began to feel more playful, I was finding revelatory threads in it I hadn’t intended. Choose Life became an imperative.” All the truest pop music speaks to us of escape and through this new album Apostille allows its transformative power to fully manifest. It’s an album full of life and energy, as disobedient as it is heroic in its pursuit of liberation.

This weekend is going to be a very ‘Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt’ weekend in London! On Saturday night the electrifying guitar-n-drums duo kick off their short European tour at The Lexington with a performance of their mind-frying, polyrhythmia, intersecting improv-jazz, acerbic noise and free-punk. This duo’s performances always leave you breathless, it’s going to be totemic! In support we have the excellent vocal/drum tessellations of Nottingham’s Rattle who entrance and intrigue in equal measure.   Then on Sunday at The Islington, Bill and Chris will perform again, this time presenting two rare solo sets more electronic in mindset. These are the only two concerts in the UK for the pair, plus they’re bringing over copies of their exclusive new tape ‘ONE DOLLAR HIT$’ for these shows too. Tickets are available for both in the links found below, with live music starting each night from 8.30pm. Read on for all the particulars.

Upset The Rhythm presents… CHRIS CORSANO & BILL ORCUTT DUO RATTLE Saturday 17 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS CHRIS CORSANO and BILL ORCUTT have spent the last five years flaying eardrums and blowing minds worldwide with a wildly polyrhythmic, high-register wail that splits the difference between rock, noise and jazz. As a co-founder of free-punk demolition crew Harry Pussy, Orcutt inspired entire genres of noise rock, and a decade after Harry Pussy's demise, re-emerged as a solo performer, creating a singular guitar lexicon suited for both discursive improvisation and cracked reinvention of the American songbook. Chris Corsano is the rim-batterer of choice for some of the heaviest contemporary purveyors of both jazz (Evan Parker, Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee) and rock (Bjork, Sir Richard Bishop, Jim O'Rourke), and is a formidable solo performer in his own right. When playing as a duo their avant drum-and-guitar improvisations provide the illusion of chaos. The longer you listen however to the onslaught of drum rolls and pock-marked notes, the more the communication (and, what's more, control) become abundantly clear. Their explosive mayhem has been documented on Orcutt's Palilalia label over the course of several live releases, most recently on the double LP "Live at Various/Various Live". Their first ever studio recording is scheduled for release later this year. https://youtu.be/9kMo7hrR5qQ 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. Rattle's debut self-titled album will be released on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You, look out this Summer for it's follow up. https://www.facebook.com/rattleandrattle/      + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +     Upset The Rhythm presents… BILL ORCUTT (SOLO) CHRIS CORSANO (SOLO) Sunday 18 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS BILL ORCUTT has been developing an open source computer music program called "I Dropped My Phone the Screen Cracked" since 2014 and has employed it to record two recent LPs, 2016's "Cracked Music" and 2017's "An Account of the Crimes of Peter Thiel and His Subsequent Arrest, Trial and Execution" which Wire magazine described as "maddening", "hypnotic" and "oddly pleasant." For this solo performance, Orcutt will present the UK premiere of a new algorithmic piece for Cracked entitled 'Neu Bros/OK Phone/Rural Beatles'. http://palilalia.com/ CHRIS CORSANO is arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz, for this rare solo set he strips things back to just the bare minimum. His amplified hi-hat set-up first debuted at the No Fun Fest in 2009 and has resurfaced only rarely since. Tiny Mix Tapes described the performance as "nothing short of hi-hat surgery. The hats stood alone, contact-mic'd, amped, and ravaged with distortion; Corsano tore in with sticks, mallets, and metal rods, prying tones from the bowels no one knew existed". His work with Mick Flower, Paul Flaherty, and others is well known; alone, though, Corsano answers to no one, and his clinic realigned every facile give-the-drummer-some heuristic underwriting our approach to percussive or non-tonal technique. http://cor-sano.com/

Thanks for spending your time with us, See you over the weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO: * DUO PERFORMANCE RATTLE Saturday 17 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO: * SOLO PERFORMANCES Sunday 18 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   BRIGID MAE POWER DANIEL O'SULLIVAN Tuesday 27 March Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS   NO AGE MIAUX VITAL IDLES 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, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT Monday 7 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   NAP EYES HALEY HEYNDERICKX Tuesday 8 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY-JAYNE JONES COBY SEY Wednesday 9 May Ghost Notes, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR ANA DA SILVA RATTLE Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   MARY OCHER Friday 18 May Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES Wednesday 23 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS Thursday 14 June Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP 7.30pm | £15.00 | TICKETS

Apostille - Choose Life!

Apostille's incredible new album 'Choose Life' is announced today! Coming out on LP/CD this June 8th, it's a colossal pop album of substance, have a first listen to 'Feel Bad'!



Available to pre-order now on limited transparent red vinyl, black vinyl and CD!
http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/product/apostille-choose-life-pre-order

Joshua Abrams LONDON concert next month!

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/

No Babies NEW ALBUM released, plus London shows for Alan Licht and Bill Orcutt / Chris Corsano!

Great news!   Today No Babies excellent, new album ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ is released through Upset The Rhythm. Featuring thirteen tracks that implode and empower in equal measure it’s a truly jaw-dropping listen. This stunning LP is pressed on red marbled vinyl and is available now in all good record shops as well as through our webshop here.

"Oakland, CA’s No Babies return with their second LP, another furiously ecstatic exploration of the overlapping margins of punk, hardcore, and no wave. The pieces we’ve come to expect are all here: Jasmine Watson’s invectives against capitalism, binaries, police; Ricky Martyr’s inimitable and always surprising stop-start guitar; horns of all stripes breaking through the noise (Misha Poleschuck on tenor sax, clarinet); a nimble and powerful jazz-influenced rhythm section (Laura DeVeber on bass, Sean Nieves on drums). Their particular brand of composed/improvised noise/music has never been chaos at all (they’ve always known exactly what they’re doing), and this time around the band seems more at one than ever, aided by the crispness and brightness of Jack Shirley’s able production. These are walls of sound, something like a runaway train, or a writhing sea serpent, and we are along for the ride. This is music that feels necessary. These are songs that sound vital to survival." - Grace Ambrose

Also, whilst we have your attention, this Sunday Upset The Rhythm have a concert prepped for The Islington with the illustrious American avant-guitarist Alan Licht. For this performance Licht will present some feedback drenched free guitar similar to his Editions Mego album ‘Four Years Older’. Joining Licht on the bill will be James Sedwards and Steve Noble too with an improvised duo set of rock histrionics.   Full details on this event and next week’s Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano duo and solo concerts can be found below, thanks for reading!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ALAN LICHT JAMES SEDWARDS / STEVE NOBLE Sunday 11 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 6.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   ALAN LICHT is an American guitarist, composer and writer, revered for his work in the Blue Humans and Text of Light, and a key figure in the pantheon of experimental solo guitar players (such as Jim O'Rourke, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Bill Orcutt and Oren Ambarchi). Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968, began taking guitar lessons at the age of ten and went on to enrol at Vassar College, where he studied electronic music with Linda Fisher and composition with Annea Lockwood and Richard Wilson. By the time he graduated in 1990, Licht had already published articles on Minimalist composers La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Charlemagne Palestine, and had recorded with former John Coltrane drummer Rashied Ali (on Rudolph Grey's Mask of Light LP). Licht then relocated to New York City, focusing on pursuing free improvisation (with Rudolph Grey's group the Blue Humans and guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors) as well as indie rock (the bands Love Child and Run On), as well as a brief stint with legendary 60's psychedelic rock band Arthur Lee & Love. Licht then began developing a repertoire of structured improvisation pieces for solo electric guitar, documented on a series of albums starting with 1994's 'Sink the Aging Process'. These brought together his interests in re-harmonisation, process, repetition, extended duration and the textural vocabularies of rock and noise music. The albums also include tape pieces and organ works. In 2001 Licht co-founded the ensemble Text of Light with Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, a project that brought together free improvisation with screenings of historic examples of experimental cinema. Some of Licht's most recent activities include recording and touring with Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, an improv trio with Aki Onda and artist/filmmaker Michael Snow, a duo with Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase, and a book-length interview with Will Oldham, 'Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy'. For this performance Licht will be performing a set similar in style to his Editions Mego album 'Four Years Older', a set of compelling guitar pieces that mine the rich seams of minimalism, noise and avant-garde, equal parts lyrical and corrosive. http://alanlicht.tumblr.com/ JAMES SEDWARDS / STEVE NOBLE DUO will present a special improvised set of guitar and drums. James Sedwards is known for his work in the avant-rock scene. He leads his own band Nøught and has collaborated on projects including Guapo, The Devil, Zodiac Youth, Alex Ward & The Dead Ends and Chrome Hoof. He currently plays guitar in the Thurston Moore band. Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and countless more. https://www.discogs.com/artist/458047-Steve-Noble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sedwards

Upset The Rhythm presents… BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO DUO RATTLE Saturday 17 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS CHRIS CORSANO and BILL ORCUTT have spent the last five years flaying eardrums and blowing minds worldwide with a wildly polyrhythmic, high-register wail that splits the difference between rock, noise and jazz. As a co-founder of free-punk demolition crew Harry Pussy, Orcutt inspired entire genres of noise rock, and a decade after Harry Pussy's demise, re-emerged as a solo performer, creating a singular guitar lexicon suited for both discursive improvisation and cracked reinvention of the American songbook. Chris Corsano is the rim-batterer of choice for some of the heaviest contemporary purveyors of both jazz (Evan Parker, Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee) and rock (Bjork, Sir Richard Bishop, Jim O'Rourke), and is a formidable solo performer in his own right. When playing as a duo their avant drum-and-guitar improvisations provide the illusion of chaos. The longer you listen however to the onslaught of drum rolls and pock-marked notes, the more the communication (and, what's more, control) become abundantly clear. Their explosive mayhem has been documented on Orcutt's Palilalia label over the course of several live releases, most recently on the double LP "Live at Various/Various Live". Their first ever studio recording is scheduled for release later this year. https://youtu.be/9kMo7hrR5qQ 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. Rattle's debut self-titled album will be released on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You, look out this Summer for it's follow up. https://www.facebook.com/rattleandrattle/      + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +     Upset The Rhythm presents… BILL ORCUTT (SOLO) CHRIS CORSANO (SOLO) Sunday 18 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS BILL ORCUTT has been developing an open source computer music program called "I Dropped My Phone the Screen Cracked" since 2014 and has employed it to record two recent LPs, 2016's "Cracked Music" and 2017's "An Account of the Crimes of Peter Thiel and His Subsequent Arrest, Trial and Execution" which Wire magazine described as "maddening", "hypnotic" and "oddly pleasant." For this solo performance, Orcutt will present the UK premiere of a new algorithmic piece for Cracked entitled 'Neu Bros/OK Phone/Rural Beatles'. http://palilalia.com/ CHRIS CORSANO is arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz, for this rare solo set he strips things back to just the bare minimum. His amplified hi-hat set-up first debuted at the No Fun Fest in 2009 and has resurfaced only rarely since. Tiny Mix Tapes described the performance as "nothing short of hi-hat surgery. The hats stood alone, contact-mic'd, amped, and ravaged with distortion; Corsano tore in with sticks, mallets, and metal rods, prying tones from the bowels no one knew existed". His work with Mick Flower, Paul Flaherty, and others is well known; alone, though, Corsano answers to no one, and his clinic realigned every facile give-the-drummer-some heuristic underwriting our approach to percussive or non-tonal technique. http://cor-sano.com/

Thanks for listening, see you soon! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

ALAN LICHT JAMES SEDWARDS / STEVE NOBLE DUO Sunday 11 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 6.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO: * DUO PERFORMANCE RATTLE Saturday 17 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   * SOLO PERFORMANCES Sunday 18 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   BRIGID MAE POWER DANIEL O'SULLIVAN Tuesday 27 March Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS   NO AGE MIAUX VITAL IDLES 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, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT Monday 7 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   NAP EYES HALEY HEYNDERICKX Tuesday 8 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY-JAYNE JONES Wednesday 9 May Ghost Notes, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR ANA DA SILVA RATTLE Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   MARY OCHER Friday 18 May Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES Wednesday 23 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS Thursday 14 June Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP 7.30pm | £15.00 | TICKETS