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.
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"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
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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. |
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.
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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
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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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
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
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