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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 & Incredible Society present…
ROBERT SOTELO
BARRY
LIFE DRAWINGS
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London N4 1DN
Friday 15 November
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
ROBERT SOTELO is a cosmic pop
melodist; a heartfelt multi-instrumentalist whose direct songs are
curiously affecting. His debut album ‘Cusp’ from 2017 was packed with
miniature psych overtures and earnest musings, he then followed this up
in 2018 with an album called ‘Botanical’, more keyboard-minded and
playful with its near-absurdist palette of sound and reflective mood.
This September Upset The Rhythm released Sotelo’s third album ‘Infinite
Sprawling’, his first record since relocating from London to Glasgow and
partly inspired by his new city’s inclusive and collaborative musical
world. Recorded with Ruari MacLean (of Vital Idles, Golden Grrrls) and
Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa) at their home studio Namaste
Sound, ‘Infinite Sprawling’ grew out of Sotelo’s sketchbook of skeletal
songs, with MacLean and Stevens developing their own drum, guitar and
keyboard parts. These songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch on a
Sunday morning, flowering with a lightness of touch, sounding both
carefree and brisk.
BARRY are South London’s
quintessential queer guitar pop band and they are here to make you dance
your socks off. Members Bart, Helen, Kathy and Mark made the leap from
spectators to creators in mid 2018, as an extension of their life long
collective obsessions with music. Inspired by a similarly named
antipodean band, Barry take a multi vocal approach to classic jangle pop
and make it their own with tales of public urination, gentrification
and not giving up! Delve into the world of four gay ‘grown ups’ living
in a city that’s becoming increasingly difficult to inhabit freely. Tape
out on Permanent Slump now!
LIFE DRAWINGS are an
un-googleable band of tip-top punks using lo-fi vocals, low key guitars,
catchy bass bits, cheap keyboards, drums and advanced admin for songs
almost exclusively inspired by Country Teasers and The Fall.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
THOR & FRIENDS
MARCEL WAVE
SIMON GOFF
Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
THOR & FRIENDS are an
avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist and all-round
force of nature Thor Harris, following his tenure as a touring member of
monolithic rock ensemble Swans. The project is intended as a vehicle
for experimentation, with the conceptual vocabulary of American
Minimalism explored and expanded on by a rotating cast of musicians from
around the globe. The resultant music is an elongated greeting and ode
to Thor's community, his woodworking shop, and the instruments his hands
shape and bring to life. From the core trio of Harris (sundry
percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising),
Peggy Ghorbani (marimba) and Sarah “Goat” Gautier (marimba, vibraphone,
xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron, piano), the line-up of Thor &
Friends expands and contracts with the flux of compositional and
improvisational contexts. The range of tonal color depends on what
instrumentalists are present or absent from the process at any given
time.
Thor has been announced as the artist-in-residence for Joyful Noise Recordings in 2019. Throughout the year he will release 6 records via the label, including the third full Thor & Friends album in Autumn as well as collaborative material with artists including Bill Callahan, Margaret Chardiet (Pharmakon), Lawrence English and many more. A limited run of 666 boxsets, handcrafted by Thor and containing coloured vinyl editions of all the releases, will then be released at the end of the year. http://www.thorharris.org/ MARCEL WAVE write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council. Featuring members of Cold Pumas and Sauna Youth. https://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com/releases
SIMON GOFF is a musician
working in the fields of classical, experimental and alternative music.
Originally from Yorkshire, UK, he now resides in Berlin, where he can be
found working with a diverse range of artists and ensembles as a
composer, performer and sound engineer/producer. He has worked with
Federico Albanese, Beirut, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran,
Hauschka, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Andrea Belfi, Thor Harris, Aidan Baker and
many more.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
THE GOTOBEDS
HYGIENE
THE TUBS
Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
THE GOTOBEDS are a modern rock
and roll sensation that has always sounded like they have to play. The
group's angular tunes and buzzy guitar-fuelled attack took the sound and
vision of post-punk and indie rock and put the nervy snarl of punk back
into the formula. Never maligned by having the world’s weight on their
backs, The Gotobeds - Cary, TFP, Eli and Gavin - returned this May with
their third full lengther, 'Debt Begins at 30' (Sub Pop). The esprit de
corps and anxiety-free joy that permeates their other LPs and EPs
remains intact. The octane is high-test, the engine still has knocks and
pings and the battery is overcharged. The Gotobeds - as Pittsburgh as
it gets, the folk music of the Steel City - have more tar for us to
swallow. The Gotobeds jump between exuberant jangle, brooding romps with
tribal beats and slash-and-burn guitar and wrecking ball anthems much
like their partners-in-rock-crime Protomartyr.
https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/ HYGIENE released a slew of singles and an LP on various DIY labels in the US and the UK at the turn of the decade, now the London post-punk stalwarts return from hiatus with their sophomore effort, 'Private Sector'. Where their debut LP 'Public Sector' (2011, La Vida Es Un Mus) reflected a nostalgic longing for an unrealised socialist modernist utopia, 'Private Sector' finds them confronting the grim realities of the present. Hygiene rail against the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, tax havens and privatised railways, seizing the moment as the current period of interregnum sees the old ideological certainties come into question. Proving nostalgia to be an inescapable trap, the band continue to hearken back to the kind of post-punk that existed before anybody knew to affix the 'post' prefix. New album 'Private Sector' has the signature Hygiene sound, mixing brooding melodies with a choppy, aggressive approach and a restricted pop sensibility. However, this ever-so-slightly-more mature record finds the band taking advantage of the musicianship of their friends, mixing in the odd viola, glockenspiel, piano and keyboard. Recommended for fans of Real Ale, British Rail Class 55 Deltics, Euston station and Jeremy Corbyn. https://www.facebook.com/Hygiene-126660907380779/ THE TUBS aim to channel "The Tubullar Sound"; a thick soup of influences ranging from antipodean jangle, to needling Post Punk, to traditional British Folk music. The Tubs feature former and current members of Joanna Gruesome, The Estate Agents, Garden Centre and Keel Her, music coming soon! https://the-tubs.bandcamp.com/releases |
Thanks as ever for your valuable time, see you next week!
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