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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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. |
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
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