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Upset The Rhythm presents…
ALEX REX
MYLES MANLEY
11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS
Wednesday 10 April
SET Space, 27A Dalston Ln, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
ALEX REX is the solo project
from Alex Neilson (founding member and songwriter of folk-rock band
Trembling Bells & collaborator with Bonnie Prince Billy) and
friends. Singing songs of love, loss and loathing. This is his first UK
tour to promote new album 'Otterburn' (Tin Angel Records). Known for his
continuing collaborations with Alasdair Roberts and Richard Youngs, and
for his work with the elusive Jandek, Alex grew up in Leeds and now
resides in London. An accomplished drummer, percussionist and singer who
draws from jazz, psychedelia and the darker side of folk music,
'Otterburn' reunites Alex with two of his Trembling Bells band mates,
Lavinia Blackwall and Mike Hastings. Aside from being a staple part of
the folk-rock revival, Rex has performed alongside artists including
Lucky Luke, The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden, Ashtray Navigations,
Alastair Galbraith and Isobel Campbell. He has also toured with several
folk artists who have enjoyed a late rediscovery of their work,
including Scott Fagan, Nick Garrie, Mike Heron and Shirley Collins.
Alex's new release was the product of a cataclysmic event in his
personal life which happened in April 2017. Sadly, Alex's brother
Alastair passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on his canal boat in
Leeds. The youngest of three boys, Alastair embodied all his family's
best qualities and was a charming and spontaneous friend to anyone lucky
enough to cross his path. Forged in pain and made in Glasgow, Otterburn
heaves with sorrow, despair, a sense of humour and a unique perspective
that could only come from experiencing deep loss.
https://alexrex.bandcamp.com/album/otterburn MYLES MANLEY is a consistently inventive pop star from Sligo, Ireland. His provocative and idiosyncratic take on guitar pop makes for a thrilling and vibrant show. ‘Myles Manley’ is currently a three piece guitar band consisting of Myles Manley, longstanding collaborator Christopher Barry and Cork’s drummer Solamh Kelly (Trumpets of Jericho, Dragons of Shandon). They spent the year honing an album of percussive, skeletal protest-pop music which is an exact replica of their joyful live set, which will have value as a historical document when it comes out. http://www.mylesmanley.com/ 11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS are a collaboration between Jasmine Pender (aka solo artist Rotten Bliss) and Jowe Head (ex Swell Maps, Television Personalities). They met ten years ago at a concert by Einsturzende Neubaten, which is a clue to the way that they get their kicks. Their collaboration is one of equal but balancing elemental forces, like hot engine oil poured into freezing water, or volcanic lava thrown high into the arctic air, a weird kind of alchemy. Their debut album together is intoxicating, brewed from their diseased imaginations into a strange synthesis of psych-folk, punk sleaze and ambient drone, but mostly it is simply indefinable. https://11thhouradventists.bandcamp.com |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
IRMA VEP
ES Thursday 11 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
IRMA VEP is a loner, a joker, a
roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and
mercurial songwriting talent birthed by a young Edwin Stevens in
Llanfairfechan, North Wales. Thrust into life after his mum bought a
four track recorder for him, Edwin started recording for the cathartic
process rather than the outcome. Having since fully grown into Irma Vep
and now residing in Glasgow, Stevens' discography has expanded to
document every aspect of his music, from ecstatically free group
experiments to bare, sparse songwriting that cuts to the quick, shorn of
ornament or pretence.
Stevens moonlights in several other groups (Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski, Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, Yerba Mansa), bringing with him an instantly recognisable guitar language. However, it's in Irma Vep that his most life-affirming, troubling and thrilling music is made. Much Irma Vep feels like what "classic" music should feel like if it weren't so Classic. Each record, each song and each performance exists as an evolving drama. Edwin has toured the West Coast of America after being invited by Chris Johanson to play his Quiet Music Festival of Seattle and Portland. Irma Vep's latest offering 'Evil', talks of repression and the consequences of repression,channeling Edwin's influences of The Rebel, Lou Reed, Katherine Dunn, Dennis Cooper, Michael Yonkers, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Cat Power, Smog, Henry Flynt and Nico. https://irmavepirmavep.bandcamp.com/ ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards an album in 2019. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases |
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 |
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