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Here’s a quick reminder of our next two upcoming UTR concerts. This
Tuesday at Oslo, Hackney we’ve got a special performance planned for a
next-level collaboration known as Yunohana Variations. Yunohana
Variations, who released a fantastic album on Thrill Jockey earlier this
year, are a trio of luminaries focussed on electronics and double drum
kits. Featuring YoshimiO (from Boredoms, OOIOO and Saicobab), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (of Lichens) and avant-garde percussionist extraordinaire Susie Ibarra, Yunohana Variations open up vast, new universes of sound, and in the words of Ibarra, "enjoy crossing into each others various sonic territories".
Tuesday’s show will be the London leg of the group’s comprehensive
UK Tour as part of the inspired Outlands project. Tickets are £12,
available on the door from 7.30pm and expect live music to commence with
modular-meddler Sam Weaver around 8.30pm.
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Our second show coming up fast on the horizon will be the release party for Gwenifer Raymond’s
new record on Tompkins Square. Gwenifer, a Welsh guitarist living in
Brighton, writes primitive instrumentals drawn from the roots music of
Mississippi and Appalachia. Influenced by the likes of Skip James, John
Fahey and Roscoe Holcomb, Gwenifer’s new album is a revelation of
rhythmic patterns mimicking the swift dynamics of a fiddle with a
country twang.
Experimental Irish guitarist John
McGrath will open this concert with his questing drones and
fingerpicking too. Tickets are £6 and are available in advance from the
link below, read on for the full write-ups on both of these.
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Upset The Rhythm presents...
YUNOHANA VARIATIONS:
YOSHIMIO & ROBERT LOWE & SUSIE IBARRA
SAM WEAVER
Tuesday 26 June
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
Three improvisational luminaries; multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), avant-garde percussionist Susie Ibarra, and artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) shall be performing together as YUNOHANA VARIATIONS
for the first time in the UK. The trio's previous collaborations have
resulted in album, 'Flowers Of Sulphur', released on Thrill Jockey this
February. 'Flower of Sulphur', is a transfixing piece of continuous
improvisational work which explores the direct relationship between the
artists and their individual configurations. The album takes the form of
the trio each playing their principal instruments to explore the space
in that moment. This spontaneous composition showcases the freedom and
musical immediacy of all three artists' ability to interplay as well as
their individual unique techniques to create engaging experimental
sounds. This tour is the second instalment of Outlands' experimental
tour outings, this time produced by Birmingham's Supersonic Festival.
YOSHIMIO is a drummer, vocalist
and founding member of the revolutionary Japanese noise rock group
Boredoms. She is the leader of the experimental rock band OOIOO, a
member of Free Kitten with Kim Gordon, and most recently the singer in
SAICOBAB - a quartet who blend ancient Indian musical traditions and
instruments with electronics and modern sounds. Known for her ability to
improvise in a variety of contexts, YoshimiO has previously performed
and recorded improvisational music with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, Jim
O'Rourke, and recently with Lowe, and then Ibarra during a series of
collaborative performances in New York City, late in 2015.
SUSIE IBARRA, is one of the
most significant percussionists and composers of our time, known for her
work as a performer within contemporary, avant-garde, jazz, classical,
and world music, and performs in the band Dreamtime Ensemble. Ibarra
studied with jazz luminaries Earl Buster Smith (of Sun Ra Arkestra),
Vernel Fournier and Milford Graves, and Philippine Kulintang gong-chime
music with Danongan Kalanduyan. She has performed with the likes of:
John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Yo La Tengo, Ikue Mori and recent works include
a sound installation for Ai Weiwei.
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE is a
multidisciplinary artist whose practice is strongly rooted in
exploration of moments and the hypnagogic state. Movement and gesture
play key factors within this process, and in the performance realm are
focused on by voice and modular synthesizer. A fixture of Chicago's
experimental community throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Robert has
also performed under the name Lichens, is a member of the legendary band
Om, and has an impressive portfolio of collaborations, which extends to
the film world with his score for pseudo-documentary A Spell To Ward
Off The Darkness, directed by Ben Russell and Ben Rivers (which Robert
also appears in).
SAM WEAVER (Cuspeditions) is a
composer and sound artist with a longstanding interest in the studio as a
sort off laboratory for sonic investigation, often re-routing
instruments into abstraction and deliberately misusing his equipment:
the Hordjik analogue modular synthesizer. Weaver’s music lies in the
grey areas between acousmatic music, free improvisation and experimental
electronics, often exploring ways to bring moments of calm and harmony
out of passages of chaos. Weaver is also one half of London outfit
Hungryghost, and has recorded and performed with Charles Hayward, Danny
Saul, Ecka Mordecai, Otto Wilberg, Rachel Goodyear, Konstrukt, Tombed
Visions, Gnod and Kevin Drumm.
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Upset The Rhythm presents...
GWENIFER RAYMOND
JOHN MCGRATH Thursday 5 July The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
GWENIFER RAYMOND is a
Welsh multi-instrumentalist, originally from Cardiff but now residing in
Brighton, England. Gwenifer began playing guitar at the age of eight
shortly after having been first exposed to punk and grunge. After years
of playing around the Welsh valleys in various punk outfits she began
listening more to pre-war blues musicians as well as Appalachian folk
players, eventually leading into the guitar players of the American
Primitive genre. She has since been playing her own moody and
often-times manic original American Primitive styled compositions on
guitar and banjo around the UK. In 2017 Gwenifer signed to the esteemed
label Tompkins Square, who released her first single ‘Sometimes There’s
Blood’ in October of that year. Her debut album ‘You Never Were Much of
a Dancer’ is out in June 29th, 2018. https://gweniferraymond.com/ JOHN MCGRATH
is an Irish guitarist, composer and author based in London. His music
explores the boundaries of the ancient and modern as traditional
elements meet improvisation and experimental tendencies. Rich harmonics,
intricate finger-picking, static drones and glitches combine to
glorious effect. John has performed the UK premiere of Rhys Chatham's
"Die Donnergotter", he’s also performed with Dustin Wong, Sharon Gal,
Cavalier Song, Howard Skempton and the aPAtT Orchestra.
He currently lectures at ICMP and Goldsmiths. www.johnmcgrathmusic.com
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Thanks for reading, have a top weekend and we’ll see you next week!
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