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Upset The Rhythm presents…
SHANNON LAY
EMMETT KELLY
NO HOME
Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/1gnIYwwCXY
SHANNON LAY is a L.A.
singer-songwriter whose work is of a plainspoken mysticism that goes to
the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting
and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local
scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who
witnesses completely breathless. Her new album for Sub Pop is called
‘August’, the title referring to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day
job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an
artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her
listeners. “It’s a thank you to the universe,” says the L.A. artist. The
title track is a mystical, folk-psych expression that builds into a
gentle gallop. “Open the doors that you cannot,” she sings with a
feathery lightness. In keeping with the humbled, contemplative nature of
‘August’, most tracks clock-in at three minutes or less. She saved
indulgence for the production. “Some songs as they were had this room to
grow,” says Lay, who recorded the album with her longtime friend,
musician Ty Segall at his home studio on the East Side. “I believe
whoever you record with tends to affect the mood of music and Ty really
brought this jovial sense that I hadn’t really explored yet,” she says.
“Once you get rolling with him, he just throws these ideas at the wall.
And you’re like, ‘I would never have thought of that!’ I couldn’t have
hoped for a better guide and energy to help create this record.”
https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/ EMMETT KELLY is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Van Nuys, California. He is the primary songwriter and recording artist of The Cairo Gang, and has contributed vocal and instrumental work to a variety of international musical projects, appearing on recordings by the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Azita, Joan of Arc, Ty Segall, Edith Frost, Women and Children, John Webster Johns, Jeff Harms, Chicago poet/singer Marvin Tate, Matteah Baim, Japanese musician Takuma Watanabe, Angel Olsen, and Joshua Abrams. Kelly has toured in several of the aforementioned acts in addition to with Sonny Smith, Baby Dee, Beth Orton, and Terry Reid, and in other instances, performed live with Scott Tuma and Pillars and Tongues. https://thecairogang.bandcamp.com/ NO HOME is the lo-fi rock solo project of Charlotte Valentine, who fuses the grunge and ambient songs of early 00s new york rock, with an urgent, captivating call to self preservation. Having enthralled audiences at Decolonise Fest and support slots with Downtown Boys, Moor Mother and Big Joanie, No Home's third EP 'hello this is exploitation' is full of unease and disorientation, modal melodies interwoven with rolling rhythms and noise. https://nohome.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
CARLA DAL FORNO
CUCINA POVERA
LOW COMPANY DJs
Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO has entered a new era with her forthcoming album ‘Look Up Sharp’, pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative move towards crystal clear vocals and sharpened production, ‘Look Up Sharp’ is an evolutionary leap from the thick fog and pastoral stillness of her Blackest Ever Black missives, You Know What It’s Like (2016) and The Garden EP (2017). Three years since her plain-speaking debut album, the Melbourne-via-Berlin artist finds herself absorbed in London’s sprawling mess. The small-town dreams and inertia that preoccupied dal Forno’s first album have dissolved into the chaotic city, its shifting identities, far-flung surroundings and blank faces. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is the story of this life in flux, longing for intimacy, falling short and embracing the unfamiliar. Dal Forno connects with kindred spirits and finds refuge in darkened alleys, secret gardens and wherever else she dares to look. In her own territory between plaintive folk, pop and post-punk, dal Forno conjures the ghosts of AC Marias, Virginia Astley and Broadcast through her brushwork of art-damaged fx and spectral atmospheres. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is a singular prism in which sound and concept bend at all angles. A deeply personal but infinitely relatable album its many surfaces are complex but authentic, enduring but imperfect, hard-edged but delicate. A diamond. Released on dal Forno’s own imprint Kallista Records this October. https://www.facebook.com/carladalfornoyes/ CUCINA POVERA is from Glasgow via Finland and Luxembourg. Maria Rossi's project utilises looped and layered vocals, field recordings and minimal synthesis to create alternately earthy and celestial raptures. Working from a dual framework of fortuity and precarity, Maria creates her own uniquely textured and ever-evolving world with sound. Trained at the Conservatoire Nationale de Luxembourg, she moved to Scotland in 2009 and became involved in the music scene in Glasgow through promoting nights and making radio shows, before learning music production at Green Door studios. Her solo project has taken her all over the UK, Europe and as far as Canada and the U.S., with more shows and a third record due out in 2019. https://cucinapovera.bandcamp.com/ KENNY WHITE (Low Company / DJ set) https://soundcloud.com/kenufeelit |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
LANKUM
JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN
Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS
LANKUM have an alchemical
ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary
undercurrents to forge music that is dark, mysterious and
transcendental. Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin
whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac
Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum
channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a
beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people. Born of
years criss-crossing Dublin's folk and experimental scenes, their two
albums Cold Old Fire (2013, recorded under former name Lynched) and
Rough Trade debut Between The Earth and Sky (2017) breath new life into
ancient/modern rituals with urban punk fervour, rural psycho-geography
and, underpinning it all, the eternal drone of the uilleann pipes. This
new live show will be in support of their much-anticipated 3rd album,
'The Livelong Day', out 25th October through Rough Trade Records.
http://lankumdublin.com/ JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN is a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. He is a founding member of the band, Skipper's Alley, with whom he has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. John is an active session musician around Dublin and has recorded with artists such as Lankum and Ye Vagabonds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuIIIOBr0M |
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