Hash Redactor's debut album out today, upcoming London shows from Bill Nace/Twig Harper, Escape-ism and Calvin Johnson!

Hello everyone!   Look how the sun shines on Hash Redactor’s debut album Drecksound, out today through Upset The Rhythm! This bruising Memphis band is fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with Nots rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, so you bet it packs a punch.   Hash Redactor dive into territory that feels distinctly untethered and wild, producing a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert with this LP!

Drecksound is a flailing, nihilistic quake of buckled, cathartic punk caught on heavyweight vinyl and available in shops as of… now!   You can listen to the whole stunning album up now on Spotify.   Whilst the record is also available to order now on mint green or black vinyl through our webshop here.   Total powerhouse debut!

Back in the London show-promotion hot seat now, we have two events coming up next week for you. On Monday we’re thrilled to be hosting a show at The Islington alongside our friends from the Colour Out Of Space festival.   This inimitable evening will feature live blocks of sound from experimental guitarist Bill Nace (of Body/Head), the one and only James ‘Twig’ Harper and the elusive Glands Of External Secretion. Certainly a lot to wrangle your head around there! Mind-expanding noise-off from three of its most essential practitioners.

Then next Wednesday we’re back at MOTH Club with Ian Svenonius for the return of his new project Escape-ism, an opportunity to rejoice in revolt.   With an economic nod to the surpluses of rocknroll Svenonius brings with gusto all manner of humour and critique to proceedings. These are minimal songs that think big and present Ian in his most raw and vital manifestation. An utter prescription for fulfillment.   The wondrous swirl of guitar, sung-spoken vocals, drums and tapes of Solution Hours will kick off proceedings too. Lucky us!

You can read more about both of those shows and our upcoming concert at HQI in White City on May 6th for Calvin Johnson, The Catenary Wires and Rose Mercie below!   You’ll also find new shows in our listings section for Roxanne Clifford’s synth pop project Patience (June 18th) and noisy Halcyon Veil affiliates Prison Religion (July 19th) too. Remarkable times!

Upset The Rhythm & Colour Out Of Space presents…   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   BILL NACE is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Jooklo Duo, Chris Cooper, Samara Lubelski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. Their critically acclaimed LP 'The Switch' was released on Matador last year. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). Nace's range of guitar playing has been described as "veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves." Recordings found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton, MA), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Holidays (Italy), 8mm (Italy), Throne Heap (VA), HP Cycle (Toronto, ON), as well as on Nace's own label Open Mouth. https://www.discogs.com/artist/610465-Bill-Nace   JAMES TWIG HARPER really pulls out real time-and-space bending tracks. Harper, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nate Young in Nautical Almanac and alongside Daniel Higgs for Thrill Jockey, holds some genuine weirdness within. He has a distinctly unique fidelity and gyroscopic dynamic that makes for a deliciously disorienting experience all of his own conception. There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality. Sometimes Harper's music can enters passages which sound almost like a primitive take on Florian Hecker's plonging, rubbery computer music or Rashad Becker's perplexing notional folk music. Check out his releases on Open Mouth, Planam, Thrill Jockey and Heresee for the full tangle. https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/twig-harper   GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION began when Seymour Glass, inspired by J.D. Salinger's short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', starts publishing the legendary Bananafish Zine in 1987, which for eighteen issues and up until 2004, constitutes a huge and ambitious attempt of presenting underground culture in its every form. Completely unknown experimental branchings, with a preference for the lo-fi, collage aesthetics, Glass's paranoid and absurd manner of writing and the whole structuring of the noise scene, with San Francisco as a starting point and every "tweaked" corner of the globe as a destination, found their home in Bananafish and their main representative in Seymour Glass. Glands of External Secretion began as Glass wanted to testify further via weird monuments of experimental and far-out studio improv, using a surreal collage of songs, sounds, Barbara Manning's vocals, voice samples, loops, out-of-context rhythms, field recordings, electronics, cut-up manipulated noises and anything else which is not considered music. The result is a twisted riot of sound bordering on audacity which the term 'extremely psychedelic' fails to completely encapsulate. https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM is the nom de guerre of mythic rock 'n' roll provocateur / theorist / revolutionary Ian Svenonius (performer, author, filmmaker, etc). Svenonius is known for his work in the music groups The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, XYZ, Weird War and author of underground bestsellers such as The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, and Censorship Now! Recognised by Performer Magazine as the "greatest performer on the planet", Svenonius is profound, prophetic, perverse, and poetic. His debut solo album an 'Introduction to Escape-ism' was released through Merge last year and teamed up a drum machine, guitar, cassette player, and a single voice singing out... for a way out. Svenonius' songs cry out for love, justice, redemption and insurrection, they stomp on convention and clobber notions of what music can be. Live, Escape-ism a new paradigm of performance: raw, gestural, idiotic, sublime, revolutionary, poetic, faux naif, unknowing, a drainage pipe that leads to who knows where.   'The Lost Record' is Escape-ism's new album on Merge and is already a classic, destined to bewitch the minds, hearts, and dancing shoes of any rock 'n' roll fan who happens to discover it, for as long as such creatures exist. Without the high-octane hype machine of the mind-control minstrels who hypnotize the hapless through the mass media, 'The Lost Record' is bound for inevitable obscurity, but-with its timeless tunes, poignant message, and innovative sound-rediscovery and immortal status is equally assured! Music enthusiasts will be thrilled to be the ones clever and kind enough to have rescued this platter from oblivion. This show follows on from last year's appearance at MOTH Club, Ian enjoyed it so much he's coming back this May! https://escape-ism.bandcamp.com/   SOLUTION HOURS are a two-piece band from London, comprised of Charlotte (vocals, drums) and Andrew (guitar, ambience). With spoken word-inspired vocals, dynamic drumming and unique guitar tunings underscored by ambient soundscapes played from a tape machine, the band have devised a sound that defies the usual trappings that a two-piece face, drawing comparisons to Life Without Buildings and bands from the heyday of 90s emo and slowcore in turn. They self-released the double single 'Into the Sea / Pocket' in 2017 and the EP 'Try Again' in 2018. https://solutionhours.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES ROSE MERCIE Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON has been rockin' it hardcore throughout the NW corner of the United States of America since way back. Olympia, Washington is where he hangs his hat. Beats, rhymes and lots of dark chocolate are how he whiles the hours. Calvin’s work in underground culture started as a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM. He moved on to writing for fanzines, organizing music and film events, playing music in various ill-fated bands. Calvin established K Records, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982. In 1993 Calvin founded Dub Narcotic Studio in which he has documented the work of Mirah, the Blow, Versus, Built to Spill, Fitz of Depression, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System. The decade of the double zeroes saw him set out into the world, acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist of musical platitudes. This show sees Calvin as troubadour, baring his soul and playing tracks from his wide-ranging opus ‘A Wonderful Beast’, released last October on K Records. Dig. https://calvinjohnson.bandcamp.com/ THE CATENARY WIRES are Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher. They specialise in emotive indie duets, capturing the spirits of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, and releasing them into modern Britain. In their previous lives, Amelia and Rob featured in indie bands Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Tender Trap, and released several records on Calvin Johnson’s K Records. A new Catenary Wires LP is due this Summer too, look out! https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/the-catenary-wires/ ROSE MERCIE is, above all, the coming-together of Charlène, Inès, Louann and Michèle. The chemistry between these four musicians from Paris is incredible, and propels each song in a swarm of imagery. Melancholic and moving, percussive and vocal, shooting glances to an elsewhere which has never felt so close; a place where Electrelane are dancing to The Shangri-Las. Rose Mercie’s debut album is out now on Jelodanti Records SDZ Records and Monofonus Press. https://rosemerciemonofonus.bandcamp.com/album/rose-mercie

Have a brilliant weekend, thanks for your time! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES ROSE MERCIE Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE ESSEX GREEN TOM O.C WILSON LOWELL THOMPSON Friday 10 May Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD (Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies) RAP (Jolly Discs) Tuesday 14 May Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS   PRIESTS APOSTILLE HYGIENE Thursday 16 May 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   HYGIENE WORMS CHILD’S POSE CHUBBY CHARLES STATIC SHOCK DISCO (from 11pm-1am) Friday 24 May The Stag’s Head, 55 Orsman Rd, London, N1 5RA 8pm | £5 on the door!   ANA DA SILVA & PHEW TARANTULA Monday 27 May St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   LANKUM BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL (May 28) ANDY THE DOORBUM (May 29) Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS   CHRIS COHEN THE JELAS Wednesday 29 May MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   BILGE PUMP WITCHING WAVES Friday 31 May The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SACRED PAWS COMFORT Thursday 13 June Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   PATIENCE Tuesday 18 June MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ELF POWER BAMBOO Wednesday 19 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   CONSTANT MONGREL Saturday 22 June New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   NORMIL HAWAIIANS RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DANIEL HIGGS ETERNAL BROADCAST Wednesday 17 July HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   PRISON RELIGION (Halcyon Veil) HYPERSTITION DUO Friday 19 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   ADVANCE BASE ALICE HUBBLE Monday 22 July Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

Upcoming London shows for Brigid Mae Power, Bill Nace / Twig Harper and Escape-ism! Plus more news on out Bamboo album!

Hello there!

I hope you had a great Easter break and didn't accidentally melt your chocolate eggs by stacking them on a windowsill and forgetting about the life-affirming weather.

Our next show takes place tomorrow at Café OTO and features the worldly talents of Irish songstresses Brigid Mae Power and Aoife Nessa Frances. Power’s songs reverberate with an epic depth of feeling and her voice is at once steadfast and sublime. Every time we’ve had Brigid come through London she’s turned in a performance that really steps over into extraordinary, so we’re really looking forward to seeing her again tomorrow.   We’re equally pleased to have Aoife Nessa Frances play in London for us for the first time too. Tickets to this magical spectacle will be available on the door from 7.30pm at OTO tomorrow, with live music commencing an hour later, read on for all the detail.

We’re also outlining here Upset The Rhythms’ next two live events! Next Monday we’re very pleased to be hosting a show at The Islington alongside our friends from the Colour Out Of Space festival.   This unique night will feature live slabs of sound ushered forth from experimental guitarist Bill Nace (of Body/Head), James Twig Harper and the elusive Glands Of External Secretion. Certainly a lot to tangle with there, three dizzyingly rare outings for London, what a treat!

Wednesday week (May 1st) will see us pitch up a MOTH Club with Ian Svenonius for the return of his new project Escape-ism, a time to rejoice in all things crucially alive and refined in revolt. With an economic nod to the surpluses of rocknroll Svenonius brings with gusto all manner of humour and critique to proceedings. These are minimal songs that think big and present Ian in his most raw and vital manifestation. Underline this one in your diaries, an utter prescription for fulfillment. The wondrous swirl of guitar, sung-spoken vocals, drums and tapes of Solution Hours will further enhance this concert. You’ll find below more specifics on all three of those upcoming ventures, lucky London!   Last time we mentioned our new Hygiene album coming out on May 24th, today we’re happy to announce a launch party taking place at The Stag’s Head on the very same day with Worms, Child’s Pose and Chubby Charles all stepping out too. The world isn’t quite ready for this yet, but there’s still time, check our listings section for all you need to know.

One more gallant item of note here, this June we’re treating the universe to some sensational brand new synth pop from Bamboo. 'Daughters Of The Sky', the band’s fantastic third album, will be released this June 14th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g gold vinyl, CD and digital. It's a vast tapestry of pristine production, featuring Nick Carlisle's colourful synth riffs, over which Rachel Horwood intones her sometimes mournful, often uplifting vocal.   The 405 just premiered the group's first video from the album, featuring a cameo from the Giant’s Causeway, so without further treaty dive right into their world of 'Weeping Idols' here! ‘Weeping Idols’ is out now as a digital single, ‘Daughters Of The Sky’ is available to pre-order now too.

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BRIGID MAE POWER AOIFE NESSA FRANCES Tuesday 23 April Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judee Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland studio of key musical foil Peter Broderick. Themes include transformation, change, motherhood, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. In the words of Power, the album was about "trusting if you lose yourself or your way - you can come back". New album 'The Two Worlds' is another masterful collection of effortless, hypnotic folk, and an album that furthers the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's already stellar reputation. Live, Brigid can encapsulate the timeless magic of her songs either solo or as a duo with Peter. Thus far she has toured throughout Ireland, UK and the US together with artists including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick and Ryley Walker, with performances at Le Guess Who? and TUSK festivals along the way. http://www.brigidmaepower.com/      AOIFE NESSA FRANCES is a Dublin born musician and singer-song writer. She is inspired by the poetic styles of folk music and psychedelic rock. https://www.instagram.com/aoifenessafrances

Upset The Rhythm & Colour Out Of Space presents…   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   BILL NACE is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Jooklo Duo, Chris Cooper, Samara Lubelski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. Their critically acclaimed LP 'The Switch' was released on Matador last year. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). Nace's range of guitar playing has been described as "veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves." Recordings found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton, MA), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Holidays (Italy), 8mm (Italy), Throne Heap (VA), HP Cycle (Toronto, ON), as well as on Nace's own label Open Mouth. https://www.discogs.com/artist/610465-Bill-Nace   JAMES TWIG HARPER really pulls out real time-and-space bending tracks. Harper, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nate Young in Nautical Almanac and alongside Daniel Higgs for Thrill Jockey, holds some genuine weirdness within. He has a distinctly unique fidelity and gyroscopic dynamic that makes for a deliciously disorienting experience all of his own conception. There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality. Sometimes Harper's music can enters passages which sound almost like a primitive take on Florian Hecker's plonging, rubbery computer music or Rashad Becker's perplexing notional folk music. Check out his releases on Open Mouth, Planam, Thrill Jockey and Heresee for the full tangle. https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/twig-harper   GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION began when Seymour Glass, inspired by J.D. Salinger's short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', starts publishing the legendary Bananafish Zine in 1987, which for eighteen issues and up until 2004, constitutes a huge and ambitious attempt of presenting underground culture in its every form. Completely unknown experimental branchings, with a preference for the lo-fi, collage aesthetics, Glass's paranoid and absurd manner of writing and the whole structuring of the noise scene, with San Francisco as a starting point and every "tweaked" corner of the globe as a destination, found their home in Bananafish and their main representative in Seymour Glass. Glands of External Secretion began as Glass wanted to testify further via weird monuments of experimental and far-out studio improv, using a surreal collage of songs, sounds, Barbara Manning's vocals, voice samples, loops, out-of-context rhythms, field recordings, electronics, cut-up manipulated noises and anything else which is not considered music. The result is a twisted riot of sound bordering on audacity which the term 'extremely psychedelic' fails to completely encapsulate. https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM is the nom de guerre of mythic rock 'n' roll provocateur / theorist / revolutionary Ian Svenonius (performer, author, filmmaker, etc). Svenonius is known for his work in the music groups The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, XYZ, Weird War and author of underground bestsellers such as The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, and Censorship Now! Recognised by Performer Magazine as the "greatest performer on the planet", Svenonius is profound, prophetic, perverse, and poetic. His debut solo album an 'Introduction to Escape-ism' was released through Merge last year and teamed up a drum machine, guitar, cassette player, and a single voice singing out... for a way out. Svenonius' songs cry out for love, justice, redemption and insurrection, they stomp on convention and clobber notions of what music can be. Live, Escape-ism a new paradigm of performance: raw, gestural, idiotic, sublime, revolutionary, poetic, faux naif, unknowing, a drainage pipe that leads to who knows where.   'The Lost Record' is Escape-ism's new album on Merge and is already a classic, destined to bewitch the minds, hearts, and dancing shoes of any rock 'n' roll fan who happens to discover it, for as long as such creatures exist. Without the high-octane hype machine of the mind-control minstrels who hypnotize the hapless through the mass media, 'The Lost Record' is bound for inevitable obscurity, but-with its timeless tunes, poignant message, and innovative sound-rediscovery and immortal status is equally assured! Music enthusiasts will be thrilled to be the ones clever and kind enough to have rescued this platter from oblivion. This show follows on from last year's appearance at MOTH Club, Ian enjoyed it so much he's coming back this May! https://escape-ism.bandcamp.com/   SOLUTION HOURS are a two-piece band from London, comprised of Charlotte (vocals, drums) and Andrew (guitar, ambience). With spoken word-inspired vocals, dynamic drumming and unique guitar tunings underscored by ambient soundscapes played from a tape machine, the band have devised a sound that defies the usual trappings that a two-piece face, drawing comparisons to Life Without Buildings and bands from the heyday of 90s emo and slowcore in turn. They self-released the double single 'Into the Sea / Pocket' in 2017 and the EP 'Try Again' in 2018. https://solutionhours.bandcamp.com/

Thank you so much for spending your valued time with us, see you soon! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BRIGID MAE POWER AOIFE NESSA FRANCES Tuesday 23rd April Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES ROSE MERCIE Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE ESSEX GREEN TOM O.C WILSON LOWELL THOMPSON Friday 10 May Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD (Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies) RAP (Jolly Discs) Tuesday 14 May Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS   PRIESTS APOSTILLE HYGIENE Thursday 16 May 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   HYGIENE WORMS CHILD’S POSE CHUBBY CHARLES STATIC SHOCK DISCO (from 11pm-1am) Friday 24 May The Stag’s Head, 55 Orsman Rd, London, N1 5RA 8pm | £5 on the door!   ANA DA SILVA & PHEW TARANTULA Monday 27 May St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   LANKUM BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL (May 28) ANDY THE DOORBUM (May 29) Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS   CHRIS COHEN THE JELAS Wednesday 29 May MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   BILGE PUMP WITCHING WAVES Friday 31 May The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SACRED PAWS Thursday 13 June Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   ELF POWER Wednesday 19 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   CONSTANT MONGREL Saturday 22 June New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   NORMIL HAWAIIANS RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DANIEL HIGGS ETERNAL BROADCAST Wednesday 17 July HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ADVANCE BASE ALICE HUBBLE Monday 22 July Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

BAMBOO AND THEIR DAUGHTERS OF THE SKY!

This June we're in for a stunning treat with some sensational new synth pop from Bamboo. 'Daughters Of The Sky' will be released on June 14th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g gold vinyl, CD and digital. It's a vast, hauntological tapestry of pristine production, featuring Nick Carlisle's colourful synth riffs, over which Rachel intones her sometimes mournful, often uplifting vocal. The 405 just premiered the group's first single from the album, check out 'Weeping Idols' here! Now is the time for hope and rebirth! 'Weeping Idols' is released now as a digital single, 'Daughters Of the Sky' is available to pre-order in our webshop now too.



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Hygiene's new album + London shows for Lea Bertucci, Brigid Mae Power and Bill Nace!

Morning one and all!   This week we unveiled our new record from Hygiene! That’s right, May 24th will bear witness to the release of 'Private Sector'! Hygiene released a slew of singles and an LP on various DIY labels in the US and the UK at the turn of the decade, now the London post-punk stalwarts return from hiatus with their sophomore effort.   Where their debut LP ‘Public Sector’ reflected a nostalgic longing for an unrealised socialist modernist utopia, ‘Private Sector’ finds Hygiene confronting the grim realities of the now.

Hygiene aim their sights against the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, tax havens and most acutely privatised railways, seizing the moment as the current period of interregnum sees the old ideological certainties come into question. The Quietus have just helped us announce the record by posting first track 'Replacement Bus', boasting that signature Hygiene sound, brooding melodies, a choppy, aggressive discipline and restricted pop sensibility.   ‘Private Sector’ is available to pre-order now through our webshop here.   Recommended for all you fans of Real Ale, British Rail Class 55 Deltics, Euston station and Jeremy Corbyn.

This week we also announced new London concerts from Deerhoof, Daniel Higgs and Normil Hawaiians too, check out our listings for dates and ticket links. We’re also focusing on our next three events here in more detail. Below you’ll find us edging towards verbose about next Tuesday’s show at Iklectik in Lambeth for New York composer and alto saxophonist Lea Bertucci (NNA Tapes).   Bertucci’s incredible music explores space, pattern and sensitivity through sculptural textures of sax, layered tape loops and field recordings. Here’s a video of her to get you primed for new composition Projection / Reflection. Chase Coley & Pascal Colman will be opening this show with their improvised duo set too, so make sure you pop down early.

We also outline below our upcoming Café OTO show for Brigid Mae Power and Aoife Nessa Frances (April 23rd), as well as detailing April 29th’s Islington throw-down with the combined forces of Bill Nace & James Twig Harper and Glands Of External Secretion. Enjoy…

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LEA BERTUCCI: Projection/Reflection CHASE COLEY & PASCAL COLMAN Tuesday 16 April IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   LEA BERTUCCI is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Deeply experimental, her work is unafraid to subvert musical expectation. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels and last year she released the critically acclaimed 'Metal Aether' on NNA tapes, as well as a commission for percussion ensemble Tigue and a second edition of her much anticipated graphic score book, 'The Tonebook', on Inpatient Press. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Kitchen, PS1 MoMA, Blank Forms, The Walker Museum, Roulette, ESS Chicago, Sound of Stockholm Festival, and the Le Guess Who Festival. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence. For this special concert in London, Betucci will present her new sensory Projection/Reflection performance. http://lea-bertucci.com/  CHASE COLEY & PASCAL COLMAN are artists and experimental musicians who have been performing as a free improvising duo since 2014 where they have made appearances at a variety of events and exhibitions around London and the UK including 2017’s Supernormal fest and east London’s Dronica series. Blurring the distinctions between noise, ambient music, performance and live sound design they present a mode of improv which is idiomatic but one where the idiom is very much their own. Both see their collaborative practice as an exercise in listening where, by the formation of new and unpredictable sonic relationships comprised of new instrumental voices (literally achieved by the fabrication of new acoustic instruments) they coerce their audience to engage with the sound which is both pure and immediate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3M5KM6B-3s&t=749s

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BRIGID MAE POWER AOIFE NESSA FRANCES Tuesday 23 April Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judee Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland studio of key musical foil Peter Broderick. Themes include transformation, change, motherhood, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. In the words of Power, the album was about "trusting if you lose yourself or your way - you can come back". New album 'The Two Worlds' is another masterful collection of effortless, hypnotic folk, and an album that furthers the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's already stellar reputation. Live, Brigid can encapsulate the timeless magic of her songs either solo or as a duo with Peter. Thus far she has toured throughout Ireland, UK and the US together with artists including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick and Ryley Walker, with performances at Le Guess Who? and TUSK festivals along the way. http://www.brigidmaepower.com/      AOIFE NESSA FRANCES is a Dublin born musician and singer-song writer. She is inspired by the poetic styles of folk music and psychedelic rock. https://www.instagram.com/aoifenessafrances

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   BILL NACE is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Jooklo Duo, Chris Cooper, Samara Lubelski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. Their critically acclaimed LP 'The Switch' was released on Matador last year. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). Nace's range of guitar playing has been described as "veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves." Recordings found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton, MA), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Holidays (Italy), 8mm (Italy), Throne Heap (VA), HP Cycle (Toronto, ON), as well as on Nace's own label Open Mouth. https://www.discogs.com/artist/610465-Bill-Nace   JAMES TWIG HARPER really pulls out real time-and-space bending tracks. Harper, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nate Young in Nautical Almanac and alongside Daniel Higgs for Thrill Jockey, holds some genuine weirdness within. He has a distinctly unique fidelity and gyroscopic dynamic that makes for a deliciously disorienting experience all of his own conception. There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality. Sometimes Harper's music can enters passages which sound almost like a primitive take on Florian Hecker's plonging, rubbery computer music or Rashad Becker's perplexing notional folk music. Check out his releases on Open Mouth, Planam, Thrill Jockey and Heresee for the full tangle. https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/twig-harper   GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION began when Seymour Glass, inspired by J.D. Salinger's short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', starts publishing the legendary Bananafish Zine in 1987, which for eighteen issues and up until 2004, constitutes a huge and ambitious attempt of presenting underground culture in its every form. Completely unknown experimental branchings, with a preference for the lo-fi, collage aesthetics, Glass's paranoid and absurd manner of writing and the whole structuring of the noise scene, with San Francisco as a starting point and every "tweaked" corner of the globe as a destination, found their home in Bananafish and their main representative in Seymour Glass. Glands of External Secretion began as Glass wanted to testify further via weird monuments of experimental and far-out studio improv, using a surreal collage of songs, sounds, Barbara Manning's vocals, voice samples, loops, out-of-context rhythms, field recordings, electronics, cut-up manipulated noises and anything else which is not considered music. The result is a twisted riot of sound bordering on audacity which the term 'extremely psychedelic' fails to completely encapsulate. https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/

Thanks so much for reading and for coming out these last few days to see Irma Vep and Alex Rex too, have a huge weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

LEA BERTUCCI: Projection/Reflection CHASE COLEY & PASCAL COLMAN Tuesday 16 April IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   BRIGID MAE POWER AOIFE NESSA FRANCES Tuesday 23rd April Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE ESSEX GREEN TOM O.C WILSON LOWELL THOMPSON Friday 10 May Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD (Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies) RAP (Jolly Discs) Tuesday 14 May Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS   PRIESTS APOSTILLE HYGIENE Thursday 16 May 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ANA DA SILVA & PHEW TARANTULA Monday 27 May St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   LANKUM BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL (May 28) ANDY THE DOORBUM (May 29) Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS   CHRIS COHEN THE JELAS Wednesday 29 May MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   BILGE PUMP WITCHING WAVES Friday 31 May The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SACRED PAWS Thursday 13 June Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   ELF POWER Wednesday 19 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   CONSTANT MONGREL Saturday 22 June New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   NORMIL HAWAIIANS RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DANIEL HIGGS ETERNAL BROADCAST Wednesday 17 July HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ADVANCE BASE ALICE HUBBLE Monday 22 July Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS