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Upset The Rhythm presents…
ROSE MCDOWALL
JETSTREAM PONY
Monday 1 October St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
ROSE MCDOWALL’s trajectory from
punk provocateur to chart-subverting pop star to underground neo-folk
musician has been one peppered with unknowns and adventure. McDowall
began her career in her hometown of Glasgow, operating within the
nascent punk scene with her first group The Poems. After a meteoric rise
to pop stardom with Strawberry Switchblade (along with friend Jill
Bryson), McDowall submerged herself in the post-industrial landscape,
becoming a member of Current 93 during their purple patch and a guest on
records by artists as diverse as Psychic TV, Felt, Coil and Nurse with
Wound, McDowall's status as the unofficial queen and muse of the
underground is well deserved. After the recording of several demos which
resulted in the 'Cut With The Cake Knife' album (Night School/Sacred
Bones, 2015), McDowall formed Sorrow to further explore her interest in
psychedelic, folk music. Considerably darker in tone than Strawberry
Switchblade, but still resplendent in McDowall's angelic, heartfelt
vocal, 'Under the Yew Possessed' is a cult album that belies a classic
pop song writing sensibility. Issued in a limited gold vinyl edition for
Record Store Day 2018, 'Under the Yew Possessed' enjoys a full Night
School reissue later this summer, followed swiftly by 'Gem'( in October)
a new album of recordings with Canadian musician Shawn Pinchbeck. This
Oct 1st concert will be a rare performance from Rose with her new live
band, comprising of several members of Scotland's ever burgeoning music
scene featuring Russel Burn ex of Fire Engines/WIN/Spectorbullets and
Jeremy Thoms ex-Revillos/Strawberry Tarts and currently The Cathode Ray
amongst them.
https://rosemcdowall.bandcamp.com/ JETSTREAM PONY write and perform shambling post punk and pulsing indie pop, featuring former Wedding Present drummer Shaun Charman (who featured on the band’s early classic albums George Best and Tommy) on guitar, with vocals by Beth Arzy of Trembling Blue Stars and former Sarah Records artistes, Aberdeen. The band’s line-up is completed by Kerry Boettcher on bass and Sarah Boyle on drums. Kerry and Shaun were previously in the John Peel-supported Turbocat, during the late ’90s. Shaun and Beth have also previously been in Fireworks. Check out their recent 7” on German label Kleine Untergrun Schallplatten. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
VIRGINIA WING
TRASH KIT
VIRGINIA WING are an inventive
psych-pop duo based in Manchester, who take their name from Grace
Slick's mother. Consisting of Alice Merida Richards (Vocals, Synths,
Organ) and Samuel Pillay (Synths, guitar, noises, bass), their music is a
sprawling amalgamation of experimental pop songs with texture, depth
and nuance; daring, progressive and forever bold. After two previous
stunning albums, Virginia Wing return on June 8th with renewed strength,
optimism and clarity for their new album 'Ecstatic Arrow' (Fire
Records).
'Ecstatic Arrow' borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard's 'Fourth Wall', the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. The voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith's Will Powers. It's with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of the album - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. https://virginiawingmusic.bandcamp.com/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Gill Partington. They have a wild feel for melody, writing songs that pull at the reins with a spontaneous charm. Their music is primal yet thoughtful, affirming yet sincere, drawing on the potential of post-punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like X-Ray Spex, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is very much their own take on facing forwards. Galloping polyrhythms, overlapping sung-spoke lyrics and entwining guitars are all drawn together into a taut unity, sounding wilfully alive. Both Rachels tangle their vocals with each other whilst expressive drumbeats and restless guitar flurries provide the rhythmic drive. Trash Kit's music is full of pauses, woven silence and punctuation too, and this is where the resonant bass lines find a perfect home. With two albums under their belt for Upset The Rhythm, Trash Kit are currently adding the finishing touches to their incredible third record.
https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/
MICH COTA’s identity has always been ingrained with the language of sound. As a two-spirit woman, raised by a native father and a white mother in Southern Ontario, Cota began composing small melodies on the piano from the age of three to create her own sacred space in an intensely religious home. Inspired by her countryside surroundings, she would ingrain herself in nature, imagining herself in a place free of theology and restraint. This is something Cota has carried with her throughout her creative existence. Her music is a way of navigating past traumas while exploring her queer experience, with open, unapologetic sincerity. It's through her artistic expression that she relates to others, to build collective understanding and empathy, with the intention to heal and to challenge normative ways of being. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
HEKLA
INGRID PLUM / YONI SILVER / ALEX WARD TRIO A LILY Monday 15 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
HEKLA is a Berlin-residing
Icelander whose sparse, delicate, fractal music exists within these two
worlds: dark and magical as Iceland’s permanight folklore; and as deeply
sonic and intense as Berlin’s electronic scene. A long-term scholar of
solo theremin, Hekla (shortened from her own name Hekla Magnúsdóttir)
uses her instrument as an otherworldly and highly evocative Siren-call. A
spectral, wailing, howling, lamenting yearning second-voice that
underpins a soft vocal delivery, as if her studio had been haunted with a
chorus of ghostly backing singers. Hekla’s debut album for solo
theremin and voice ‘Á’ is out on September 14th through Phantom Limb
Records (this show is the album launch). The album was written and
self-recorded by Hekla in her home studio in Berlin around her son’s
daycare schedule. Icelandic super-musician Mr Silla (a part-time múm
member) guests on a number of tracks. Tallinn-based engineer Jose Diogo
Neves - a stalwart of Icelandic and Portuguese music - mixed and
mastered the record.
While a handful of reference points share similar ground, Colleen’s interplay of voice and instrumentation; the richly immersive filmscore work of sadly passed fellow Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson; “grandmother of theremin” Clara Rockmore’s close relationship with such a singular instrument; Julia Holter’s intelligent and classically-aligned songwriting - Hekla’s music still exists singularly. A one-off talent, emerging from no particular scene, ascribing to no particular rules.
https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/-
INGRID PLUM uses her voice with extended technique, improvisation, field recordings and electronics, to create layered soundscapes, spoken word and songs. Described by The Guardian as “gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings & electronics” she has performed and exhibited installation art internationally since 2002, creating work that combines sound art, contemporary classical and folk music. Incorporating her research into folk traditions with field recordings and studying directly with Meredith Monk her recent performances have been described as “succinct and nourishing... a luxuriant space between almost excessive precision and looser improvisation" by The Wire.
http://www.ingridplum.com/
YONI SILVER is a bass-clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist whose activities include hyper-spectral adventures with Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble; a bass clarinet and percussion duo with Steve Noble; a bass clarinet/violin and possessed vocals duo with Sharon Gal; Denis D’or with Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley; bass clarinet and drums duo with Crystabel Riley, and solo performances on amplified bass clarinet. He has appeared on labels such as Creative Sources, Confront Recordings, Wasted Capital, Chocolate Monk and Edition Modern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgtBwE8QLM
ALEX WARD is a composer, improviser, and performing musician, working primarily with clarinet and guitar. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. He subsequently took part regularly in Bailey's Company events, and has gone on to become a major figure in British improvised music. His current work includes the avant-rock duo Dead Days Beyond Help in which he plays guitar, sings and co-writes the material; various groups which perform his compositions-for-improvisers including Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet, and the Item series of ensembles; and improvising collaborations both regular and ad-hoc with musicians including Steve Noble, Dominic Lash, Kay Grant, Joe Morris and Weasel Walter. Besides his own groups and improvisational work, he also performs in ensembles including the Duck Baker Trio/Quartet, Thurston Moore’s recent multi-guitar projects Galaxies and New Noise Guitar Explorations, and Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward’s This Is Not This Heat. He brings a unique energy and inventiveness to all these projects, elevating them far above the ordinary and injecting them with a thrilling sense of danger and possibility. Much of his work is documented on the label Copepod, which he co-runs with Luke Barlow.
https://alexward.bandcamp.com/
A LILY is James Vella, who is also a writer. Based in Brighton, UK, and bringing together influences as diverse as ambient drone, delicate indie-folk, pop songwriting, electronic music and modern classical, A Lily is a solo project with a far-reaching net. James has released a handful of A Lily records with Blank Editions, Kingfisher Bluez, Fierce Panda, Dynamophone Records and Sound in Silence among other labels. The son of a choral / operatic soprano and music theory lecturer, he grew up around music and saw his first record release as a teenager. Using the ‘A Lily’ name to encompass all of his solo music, his releases have covered broad stylistic ranges, from dark alt-pop to piano solos to mechanically-hearted electronica to abstract avant-garde. |
Have a wonderful weekend, thanks for all your time and consideration,
See you on Monday at Rose McDowall!
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