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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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!
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