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Upset The Rhythm presents...
JANDEK
KOOKEN: A ONE ACT PLAY (film)
Tuesday 2 April Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £18 | TICKETS
JANDEK is the mysterious musical project of Corwood
Industries, a record label that operates out of Houston, Texas. Since
1978, Jandek/Corwood Industries has independently released over 100
albums/DVDs of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk, rock and blues
songs without ever granting an interview or providing any biographical
information. Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently
atonal form of folk, rock, punk, country, classical and blues music, at
times using an open and unconventional chord structure. The name
'Jandek' is most commonly used to refer specifically to the project and
not an individual.
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Upset The Rhythm presents...
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
MOSQUITOES Friday 5 April Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS are a touchstone punk jazz/brutal
prog/no wave group who steadily deconstructed music and reality between
1991-2007 with their 16 releases and more than 400 performances around
the world. Now, in 2019, the band is back with a new lineup, new music
and a new full-length album out soon. In the interim, leader and
composer Weasel Walter shifted his expansive energies into the world of
free improvisation, recording dozens of albums and playing with hundreds
of internationally known musicians, as well as touring the planet with
Lydia Lunch, Cellular Chaos, XBXRX, Behold The Arctopus and many others.
In 2017, The Flying Luttenbachers reformed and made a week long tour of
France, performing an hour long set of classic material from the entire
catalog. The latest incarnation of the band is based in New York City,
featuring Tim Dahl (Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways, GRID) on bass guitar,
Matt Nelson (GRID, Elder Ones, etc.) on tenor saxophone, Brandon
Seabrook on guitar and Weasel Walter on drums. For this April 2019 tour,
Seabrook will be replaced by UK guitar strangler Alex Ward, who cut his
teeth playing as a teen with legendary improviser Derek Bailey. The
band was recently invited to open a run of three sold out New York shows
headlined by The Oh Sees last October. The Flying Luttenbachers have
recorded a brand new double LP entitled ‘Shattered Dimension’ which will
be released on ugEXPLODE and Ty Segall’s imprint GOD? Records this
April.
http://www.theflyingluttenbachers.com MOSQUITOES are a crypto, avant rock trio, who have captured the attention of more than a few heads over the past couple of years. After two self-released offerings, their latest EP on Ever/Never Records sealed the deal with its swarming mass of dubwise, no wave indebted confusion. https://soundcloud.com/user-703056763 |
Upset The Rhythm presents...
COOLIES
THE RENDERERS
FUN FUN FUNERAL Saturday 6 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
COOLIES have been blurting out random batches of high order
avant garage spew since 1997. Sjionel Timu and Tina Pihema are the core
of the band. Formed in the sprawl of South Auckland, New Zealand while
they were still teens, Coolies were ostensibly a “punk” unit, but their
sound was never doctrinaire. Through sheer weirdness and strength of
vision, they created music that paralleled aspects of underground noise
from the forests of Olympia Washington, the squats of West London, and
the basements of Dunedin. Without resorting to formal revisionism,
they’ve managed to take the basics of the early Rough Trade sound and
smudge it with fingers dipped in the art-readymades of NZ’s underground
pop groups and their own fevered experimentalism.
For a good chunk of the last decade, Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) was their drummer. This line-up cut a great LP, Master, for Chapter Music, and an even more dastardly EP, Punk Is Bread, for Epic Sweep. Most recently they presented, Kaka, gruntily produced by Neville on Feeding Tube Records. The tunes on Kaka were recorded in a couple of long jam sessions, then teased and smooshed into “shape” over the course of a year or so. The results, much like their live show are both propulsively fetching and utterly fried. https://lecoolies.bandcamp.com/ THE RENDERERS deal in ghostly folk songs, free-form freak outs, a head-spin of psychedelic hammering; anything goes. The New Zealand group have released nine albums since they formed in 1989 on labels as diverse as Flying Nun, Ba Da Bing, Siltbreeze and Merge. The Renderers feature legendary guitarist and songwriter Brian Crook and his wife, songwriter and artist Maryrose Crook, with a rotating group of members. The Crooks have been lucky enough to support a pile of great artists; Thurston Moore, at Zebulon, Los Angeles, 2018; Will Oldham, as his backing band, following which he subsequently released his own recording of A Dream of the Sea; Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, and Wooden Wand's James Toth. In The Sodium Light: “apocalypse and dread”, Magnet Magazine, the best of 2016, Essential Music) “They invite you right inside the emotional engine room, giving an opportunity to witness their raga-psychedelic psychosis up close.” This is their first UK concert. https://therenderers.bandcamp.com/ FUN FUN FUNERAL make brightly coloured songs like beautiful collages, always with a little glue overlapping. Bold songwriting, dense lo-fi arrangements, a dark and happy poem. With their specially crafted samples, scraped and scratched strings, high voices, percussions, the duo exhibits original pop songs of yesterday and tomorrow. https://soundcloud.com/funfunfuneral |
Thanks for your time as always, it is beyond appreciated.
See you sooner than soon.
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