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Pivotal to this new album, ‘Horizon’
is sleeping giant of a title track, forever reaching out and
intensifying throughout its lively five-minute lesson in reinforcement.
Trash Kit’s approach to life as with music is one of openness, inclusion
and potential and Horizon is an album with that in dutiful abundance.
It’s an album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you
once more beyond the vanishing point.
‘Horizon’ is available now in all the best shops and from our webshop now!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take
on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving
out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within
the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys
towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the
weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left
behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous
faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were
all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild
and redolent new dimensions. Within three years the band went on to
record three astonishing records, their ambitious double-LP debut ‘More
Wealth Than Money’, ‘What’s Going On?’ with its radical collage of
movements and ‘Return Of The Ranters’ which teamed up their free
experiments in compelling arrhythmia with a more confrontational
approach. Upset The Rhythm have released ‘More Wealth’ and ‘Ranters’
recently in remastered form, and this special live manifestation at Cafe
OTO celebrates the reissue of 1984’s ‘What’s Going On?’ masterstroke
(out June 28th). Lucid, candid, politically engaged, rarely metronomic
but always humane, Normil Hawaiians conjure vast clouds of atmosphere.
Their songs are bedecked with exalted synth trails, clustering guitar
rapture, motorik beats, and spun-out raw polemics. Still light years
ahead of us all!
http://normilhawaiians.com/ RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days when we're saturated with so much music. Rattle's impressive ‘Sequence’ album came out last November through Upset The Rhythm. https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/ ERASERS deliver up rhythmic and mood-driven music that sits between kosmische and post-punk. Forming as a home recording project in 2009 the Perth, West Australian based Erasers (Rebecca Orchard, Rupert Thomas) released a steady flow of cd-rs, tapes and a 7” before eventually releasing their debut full length ‘Stem Together’ in 2015. In 2017 the duo followed up with the tape release ‘Fault Lines’. In the live sphere Erasers have shared the stage with the likes of Low, Grouper, Acid Mothers Temple, Prince Rama, High Wolf and The Soft Machine as well as multiple shows with long time musical heroes My Disco, Love Of Diagrams and Pikelet. After an extensive recording and mixing process, 2019 sees Erasers with two new releases to share; a 5 track tape titled ‘Forecast’ (through Solid Melts) and the duo’s second full length ‘Pulse Points’ (through Fire Talk and Pouring Dream). https://erasers.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
RAYS
DESIGN A WAVE
MAEDCHEN 84
Tuesday 16 July Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
RAYS returned to the fray with
their second album, You Can Get There From Here, their first release
since their eponymous Trouble In Mind debut in 2016. Rays formed in the
fertile crescent of the California Bay Area, a hotbed of musical growth
in the past decade, and Rays' members pull not only from that recent
miasma but also from a wealth of Bay Area musical history. You Can Get
There From Here represents a turning point for the band, angling their
scrappy, post-punk fury into a more refined & melodic pop
sensibility, drawing inspiration from UK DIY pop & punk like Dolly
Mixture, Cleaners From Venus, Television Personalities & more.
Straight from the gate, songs like "Fallen Stars" & "The Garden"
temper their sonic crunch ever so slightly, relying more on the harmonic
wallop of a solid hook than the sheer volume of guitars & cymbal
crashes. This is urgent, chiming guitar pop of the highest order that
clangs with a sonorous melancholy & a ramshackle grace. Rays can
still lay it down with the rest of 'em; tunes like "Subway" & "Work
of Art" shuffle & stumble forward, skirting chaos in a flurry of
strums, recalling recent antipodean pop groups like UV Race, Dick Diver
or The Shifters who cull inspiration from idiosyncratic UK greats like
Mark E. Smith or Robyn Hitchcock. With You Can Get There From Here, Rays
add their voice to the chorus. The new album finds the core group of
Stanley Martinez, Eva Hannan, Troy Hewitt & Alexa Pantalone
augmented by new member & keyboardist Britta Leijonflycht, whose
synth flourishes add melodic embellishments, sonic heft or psychedelic
swirl where needed.
http://www.troubleinmindrecs.com/artists/rays/ DESIGN A WAVE aka Tom Hirst is a London based artist who has recently released music on Rush Hour’s No Label, as well as contributing to Ravioli Me Away’s opera. Design A Wave also has past releases on Alien Jams, Subsubtropics and the Alter label. Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90s, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it’s time, informed a particular vision of an idealised weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride. https://soundcloud.com/deswav MÄDCHEN 84 put a dent in ya head! A sample square of vinyl from wickes and a tearout guardian review of minaj's latest is available to be sent in the post for anyone who needs to feel real. https://maedchen84.bandcamp.com |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
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
DANIEL HIGGS is a musician and
artist from Baltimore, Maryland on whose behalf superlatives are
destined to fail. It’s not that his artistic output - spanning three
decades, numerous albums, books of poetry and collections of drawings -
simply eludes classification, it defies it. Often we hear that a true
work of art is meant to speak for itself, and with the work of Daniel
Higgs the maxim rings truer than ever. Higgs is known primarily for his
work as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, a
four-piece dedicated to charting, in this listener’s estimation, nothing
short of the evolution of all species, known and unknown. They are
enshrined as one of America’s last true folk bands, and Higgs anointed
as a patron saint to artistic purity. In recent years, Higgs has
released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the
ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of
his band. Higgs weaves meditative, casually ruptured drones using
acoustic and electric guitar, upright pianos, banjo and jew’s harp,
recorded entirely at home on cassette recorder. He pairs the music with a
series of paintings that call to mind religious iconography passed
through the disfiguring surrealism of Miro. His art is of the cosmos.
https://danielhiggs.bandcamp.com/ ETERNAL BROADCAST are a collective from Sheffield harnesses the background noise of the Universe; the radio waves rippling into space at the speed of light; the fallout from the Big Bang. A cosmic symphony of crackled transmissions. Featuring past and present members of Boring Men, Sister Wives, Feature, Night Flowers, Acid Mass. https://soundcloud.com/eternalbroadcast/sets/notebooksoep |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
PRISON RELIGION
HYPERSTITION DUO Friday 19 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
PRISON RELIGION are a hardcore
noise project from Richmond, Virginia, comprised of Poozy and False
Prpht. Though the two are solo artists in their own right, they
collaborate regularly to make collages together that are indebted yet
flippant to hip hop, punk, and techno. Working together since 2016, the
duo have dived deep into the space between blown-out trap (2016’s Cage
With Mirrored Bars) and contemporary destructive club music (2018’s O
Fucc Im On The Wrong Planet). Since linking up with Texas-based
experimental label Halcyon Veil, they've connected a global crewsof
likeminded collaborators for a remix album including Rabit, Endgame,
Swan Meat, Lee Gamble and Bonaventure. The production destroys any
notion of comfort afforded in dance music, with cold industrial and
glitchy hip hop textures serving as the stylistic anchor of the record.
With close ties to NON Worldwide, Prison Religion are also ushering in a
new wave of vocal-based club performance.
https://prisonreligion.bandcamp.com/ "The barely tonal beats of tracks like "Shots Fired" have this way of making it feel like the 808s are falling apart or dissociating, like a crowd dispersing as Jones and Black spin kick in the centre… acid drenched tracks draw on the history of industrial music, metal iconography and experimental club music." (Noisey) "Prison Religion are one of the most hardcore, rap-related acts we've heard in years. Philip Best levels of mic-burning bile and vitriol shrieked and expectorated over bludgeoning beats, field recordings and charred electronics." (Boomkat) HYPERSTITION DUO plunge deep to deliver a maximalist collective immersion into their own lysergic phonosphere. Lurching, polyrhythmic pathways crumble and re-assemble; elastic dynamics snap; propulsion sparks from the nerve-centre of machine and corporeal entanglement. Featuring ex-members of Blood Sport, templexing, möbius loops and cybernetic subjectivities abound in an attempt to conjure escape vectors in a world of ubiquitous sound. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
ADVANCE BASE
ALICE HUBBLE
Monday 22 July Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
ADVANCE BASE is the electronic
solo project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of
electric pianos, autoharps, Omnichords, loops, samples & drum
machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, &
nostalgia-obsessed tunes around his conversational, baritone vocals. The
sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" &
"weirdly uplifting." Advance Base has supported live dates for The
Postal Service, Pedro the Lion, The Mountain Goats, Dean Wareham, Alan
Sparhawk, Mark Kozelek & Stephin Merritt. The debut Advance Base
album, ‘A Shut-In's Prayer’ (2012), was released by Caldo Verde Records
& Ashworth's own Orindal Records. ‘Nephew in the Wild’, the second
album by Advance Base, was released in 2015 by Orindal Records &
Tomlab Records. PopMatters named ‘Nephew in the Wild’ the number 1 Indie
Album of 2015. ‘Animal Companionship’, the third & most recent
album by Advance Base, was released last September. The sound of the
album is soft and thick and comforting. And when we’re working with
songs as sad as the ones that Ashworth writes, that level of comfort
really comes in handy. He used to write sad love songs, or sad songs
about love. He’s still doing that, really, except that he’s now
middle-aged, with a wife and kids, living in suburban Chicago, and the
songs reflect that. The songs on ‘Animal Companionship’ are full of a
whole life’s worth of regrets and missed opportunities and moments of
acceptance and dead friends. It’s not as bleak, either; there are
moments of happiness, or at least sustenance, sprinkled all through
‘Animal Companionship’. But in its sharp and unrelenting and empathetic
specificity, this is some real masterly heart-wrecker music.
http://advancebasemusic.com/ ALICE HUBBLE is the new project of Alice Hubley (Mass Datura, Cosines, Arthur and Martha), the product of one lady locked at home with her collection of analogue synthesisers. Inspired by 70’s recordings by Tangerine Dream, Delia Derbyshire, Mike and Sally Oldfield, hers is a distinctly feminine take on the sometimes pompous 70’s sound. Her new album will be available on Happy Robots in Summer 2019. https://www.facebook.com/alicehubblemusic/ |
Thanks as ever for reading and for all your support!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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NORMIL HAWAIIANS
RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
RAYS (Members of The World, Trouble In Mind)
DESIGN A WAVE
MAEDCHEN 84
Tuesday 16 July
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 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
MOUNT EERIE
Thursday 8 August EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS
J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST
THE PHEROMOANS
Wednesday 14 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | 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
MARY LATTIMORE
NUMMO TWIN
Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
DOG CHOCOLATE
DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance)
BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
KURWS
HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
LANKUM
Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS
THE GOTOBEDS
Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS |
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