Hello there!
What a week of giant bumblebees in flight and baking sunshine, it feels
like we’ve skipped spring and ended up slap in the middle of summer
with bbq smoke in our hair.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
DOG CHOCOLATE
CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA
Monday 7 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT are Ed
Schrader and Devlin Rice - a minimalist punk duo from the fair city of
Baltimore, Maryland. In the beginning there was only Ed: a man unhinged,
channeling to the world a sacred message in the form of song. His only
divining instruments: a single floor tom, one light, and a commanding
baritone. He's a master songsmith who has reduced pop and punk to their
most basic building blocks. Ed was soon joined by Devlin on bass, who
proved to be an acute match for encapsulating the space-time from whence
they came. Their union quickly brought about the release of their 2012
debut album 'Jazz Mind' and 2014's 'Party Jail' through Upset The Rhythm
which The Wire said recalled "the percussion-heavy chants of Liars",
with Ed "affecting a mournful Arthur Russell tone on the a cappella
songs" whilst "roaring like Rollins" on the album's faster numbers.
Since then, Ed Schrader's Music Beat have toured frequently in North
America and Europe, notably alongside their friends Future Islands.
New album, 'Riddles' begins their new
life. In search of a fresh direction, Ed and Devlin invited their close
friend, electronic-pop maestro Dan Deacon, to expand their sound and
experiment with them as the album's producer, arranger, and co-writer.
Working steadily in Dan's studio for two years in total collaboration,
three evolving musicians pushed through an intense period of personal
tumult and found purpose in the sounds they were committing to record.
The result: a polished and passionate masterpiece of nuanced alt-rock.
From driving opening track 'Dunce' and the soaring single 'Riddles' to
the disarmingly gorgeous closer 'Culebra', Ed and Devlin
unapologetically channel a personal pantheon of pop and rock gods while
growing into the band and people they'd previously kept caged inside.
'Riddles' is out now through Carpark Records.
DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a
crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Abandoning
notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the
ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their
music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur
falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and
staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog
Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last.
Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's
guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing
all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them
round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out May 15th)
is readying for release through Upset The Rhythm, who also released
their debut 'Snack Fans' in 2016.
CHARISMATIC MEGAFAUNA are a
trio from London making party punk for the politically minded. They are a
thunderous tribe on the brink of total collapse, intelligent, shouty,
the whole she-bang. Check out their debut album ‘Semi-Regular’ out now,
you won’t regret it!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
NAP EYES
HALEY HEYNDERICKX
Tuesday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia
and Montreal and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the
gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs
are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt
and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where
odes to NASA and the Earth's magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics
about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday
details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter,
singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels,
struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both
real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order;
solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and
small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art,
and science. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a
tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety,
archness and earnestness. Following on from their 2014 debut 'Whine of
the Mystic' and last year's 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' on Paradise of
Bachelors, Nap Eyes will release their third album 'I'm Bad Now' on
Jagjaguwar. 'Im Bad Now' achieves a new sonic clarity, depth, and range
to match the group's effortless melodies and extraordinary writing. It's
the band's most transparent and personal set of songs to date, in which
singer Nigel Chapman interrogates social, psychological, and spiritual
milieus for clues about the elusive nature of knowledge.
HALEY HEYNDERICKX is an
emphatic singer/songwriter from Portland. Through soft acoustic guitar
picking and deftly accented trombone sighs, Heynderickx's music
immediately recalls folk music of the '60s and '70s mixed with a love of
jazz radio. But Heynderickx's singing, her vocals that range from
sultry to operatic, belie a tenacity in her soul. Her debut album, named
'I Need to Start a Garden' is due out March 2nd via Mama Bird Recording
Co.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
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
Internationally renowned US composer,
saxophonist, mixed-media practitioner, and sonic voyager Matana Roberts
(perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, ongoing and
unfolding via Constellation Records) and British sound artist/improviser
Kelly Jayne Jones. Roberts and Jones will weave their own approaches
into live collaborative works informed by deeply expressive playing,
tactile electro-acoustic interplay and a broader shared politics of
resistance/defiance. This Upset The Rhythm show is part of the first in a
series of special live shows commissioned by OUTLANDS, a new national
experimental music touring network.
MATANA ROBERTS is an
internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound
experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many
contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and
theatre, and has released a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under
her own name on Constellation Records and Central Control over the past
decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a
multi-chapter work of "panoramic sound quilting" that aims to expose
the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions
of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive
engagement with narrativity, history, community and political
expression within improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began
documenting the Coin Coin project in 2011 and has released the first
three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.
KELLY-JAYNE JONES makes use of
varying combinations of prepared recordings, text, rocks, found sounds
and flute. Her work beckons a tussle with uncertainty, inviting exposure
and vulnerability in performance, chasing experiences that open our
chasms within, without restraint. Searching for humble principles of
growth; physics; sound, connecting with others in the same space/moment,
customary experimental play, with threads and beads of improvisation
and interactivity. KJJ has had residencies at Arnolfini in Bristol UK
and Kunstalle Bergen, Norway, and has produced commissioned works for
Haris Epaminonda at dOCUMENTA13, Tate Modern, ICA London, Schirn
Frankfurt, Point Centre Nicosia. She has performed, solo and with part
wild horses mane on both sides, at CCA Glasgow, Trieze Gallery Paris,
Borealis Festival, Tectonics Reykjavik, Hangar Bicocca in Milan and at
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
COBY SEY is a vocalist,
musician and DJ, who, after years spent buzzing around the DIY artist
circuitry of South East London, has developed a distinctive presence as a
performer and producer offering a shifting, disorienting vision of club
music. A long-time collaborator with Mica Levi, Tirzah, Babyfather,
Klein and Kwes, Coby's recorded work - as best evidenced on the 'Whities
010: Transport for Lewisham' 10" - spans the realms of live
instrumentation, sample-based productions and experimental music,
melding recognisable motifs of hip hop, drone, jazz, grime and more into
a dubbed-out anaesthesia. Live, these dreamlike compositions are imbued
with a heavy, uneasy dancefloor energy, often abetted by live vocals as
well as saxophone interjections c/o regular cohorts Ben Vince and
Calderwood. Coby's open-door approach to sharing and making music
stretches to his work with London collective Curl, who release records
and host events with a collaborative, improvisatory approach, as well as
a regular slot on NTS which offers a portal into his appealingly murky
musical world.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
PROTOMARTYR
ANA DA SILVA
RATTLE
Thursday 10 May
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR return to London
next May for their biggest show yet! Protomartyr play a taut, austere
rock that's been incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with
beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed occasionally by space heaters.
Short songs made for short practices, and the band learned quickly not
to waste time. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that
is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter. With respect to
the local predecessors, this isn't the primitive stomp of The Dirtbombs
or The Stooges' greasy roar. Punk works, kind of, even if it leaves the
hardcore kids confused. Post-punk suggests something too retro; indie
rock, something too precious. What Protomartyr is, is "stuck between the
cracks." If that's the case, though, they aren't alone. Protomartyr's
economical rock elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere
Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or
Tyvek (whose frontman Kevin Boyer played bass in an early iteration of
Protomartyr). Singer Joe Casey's dry declarative snarl serves as a
reliable anchor, granting his bandmates (guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer
Alex Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson) the opportunity to explore
textures and reinforce the rhythm section. This is never more apparent
than on the band's brand new album entitled 'Relatives In Descent', out
now through Domino. This show follows on from the band's long sold out
Tufnell Park Dome show planned for next month.
ANA DA SILVA is a founding
member of the pioneering female punk band The Raincoats. Ana has
continually worked on music, in some shape or form, since the group
disbanded in 1984. Soon after the release of The Raincoats' final album
album, 'Moving', Da Silva collaborated with This Heat drummer Charles
Hayward on a project called Roseland; they recorded a few demos
together, but the duo faltered after that. She also wrote music for
choreographer Gaby Agis' productions, but spent much of the '80s and
early '90s painting and working in an antique shop. The Raincoats'
reunion spurred Da Silva and the rest of the group to write new songs,
resulting in the band's fifth album, 1996's 'Looking in the Shadows'. Da
Silva resurfaced in 2005 with her solo record 'Lighthouse', a largely
electronic collection of songs that she wrote, recorded, and produced
herself for Chicks On Speed records.
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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Keep keeping on, thanks for spending your time with us!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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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
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
COLDNOSE
STAL KINGSLEY |
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