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No shortage of fascination and charisma with this next show announcement too. We’ve just added a concert for Ian Svenonius’ Escape-ism project for May 7th at Space 289 in Bethnal Green. Watching Ian wow the audience always makes for a rewarding time, tickets now on sale for that!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
MASSICOT
SLAGHEAP
SHAKE CHAIN
Monday 24 February
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
MASSICOT are a Geneva trio that sound as if they can hardly
contain their own energy. The no-frills bone-dry guitar sounds
oscillates between hypnotically repetitive passages and noisy outbursts.
Simone Aubert plays her rhythm guitar with a manic relentless energy.
Drummer Colline Grosjean works her way from funk to krautrock to
tropical beats and back again. Then over all that, in addition to her
vocals, Mara Krastina plays her charming bright red mini-bass with a
velocity that is guaranteed to ensure bodies start moving. Their new
album is due out about now on the Harbinger Sound / Spurge Recordings
label.
https://massicot.bandcamp.com/
SLAGHEAP are pure unfiltered energetic post-punk nonsense from four women in their pants. In turns melodic, naïve and raucous. The debut album from this Bristol quartet has been winning over fans everywhere and picking up plenty of airplay and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. The 12" was the first release from Spurge Recordings and is a must if you're attuned to the attitude and tunes of The Raincoats or Au Pairs amongst others. But be assured this isn't a simply retrospective sound.
https://slagheapband.bandcamp.com
SHAKE CHAIN formed through a love of thought provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption so they were never going to be your average run of the mill project and the band have delivered unpredictable live shows across London and Oxford since their recent inception. Having recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ (on the day of Neil Young & Bob Dylan Live at Hyde Park) last Summer, with sound artist David Carugo and released by Permanent Slump, the group enter 2020 with a fresh heap of material to take into the studio and on the road around the UK in April. Catch them in the field with their not-to-be-missed fusion of post-punk grooves and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
ISLET
DESPICABLE ZEE
Thursday 5 March Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
ISLET are a Powys trio whose free-spirited invention and
exuberant intensity flows through experimental pop: hypnotic,
exhilarating and defiantly unique. They began in Cardiff in 2009 when
Emma Daman and brothers Mark and John ‘JT’ Thomas resolved to form a
band with one rule: that anything was possible. Soon after, they were
joined by Alex Williams. The band had no lead singer or set roles,
switching instruments from song to song, melding psych rock, ethereal
atmospherics and jagged post punk, with most gigs seeing the walls and
spectators played as instruments. They were soon surrounded by a buzz of
excitement and mystique, cherished locally, then globally. They wrote
about their philosophy in their own zine, started a festival, helped
other bands; they are stalwarts of the Welsh DIY community. Two albums
(‘Illuminated People’, 2012 – shortlisted for the Welsh Music Prize –
and ‘Released By The Movement’, 2013) and a handful of EPs followed,
released on their own label, Shape Records. Now Islet have signed to
Fire Records, with Emma Daman Thomas moving into focus with her
unleashed, mesmerising vocals against a synth-driven sound, unexpected
shifts of rhythm, playful inventive lyrics; an exhilarating, electronic
purr that provokes thought and feeling. They have matured, are more
tender and composed, but still eclectic, mysterious and intriguingly
themselves. Brand new album ‘Eyelet’ will be released on March 6th!
https://islet.bandcamp.com/ DESPICABLE ZEE is the solo project of Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, who has been writing and performing for more than 15 years. She is the director of the Young Women’s Music Project, which continues to inspire her. Zahra specialises in leftfield, electronic lo-fi-pop – wonky yet meditative tunes, punctuated by biting rhythms. With echoes of The Knife, Tirzah, CocoRosie and Madame Gandhi, her recent EP sounds like longing, like searching, like hacking away at old vines to reach what’s behind them. https://despicablezee.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
THE SILVER FIELD
CLEMENTINE MARCH
LOOSE JOINTS (DJ Set)
KATAYOUN JALILI (DJ Set)
Friday 6 March
SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm-2.30am | £6 | TICKETS
THE SILVER FIELD is a sound world of Coral Rose &
friends. Voice, tapes, bass, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big
sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. March 2020 sees
multi-instrumentalist Coral and drummer Kiran Bhatt (Red River Dialect)
take to the road across the UK, sharing songs from their forthcoming
second album, to be announced early 2020, as well as selections from The
Silver Field's debut Rooms. Recorded by Coral at home in south London,
Rooms was brought to the world in January 2019 by Tim Burgess' O Genesis
Recordings and received high praise for its dreamlike tapestries of
tape loops, reverb and folk instrumentation, including plays on BBC 6
Music, BBC 3's Late Junction, NTS and Soho Radio, as well as print and
online love from The Quietus, Electronic Sound, God Is In The TV and
many more.
https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/
CLÉMENTINE MARCH is a London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker, her musical forays portray a very personal approach to the pop song, playing with languages and textures, with a Brazilian savoir-faire and a post-punk edge. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
LIMPE FUCHS - Concert
WATERLESS HILLS
Saturday 14 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
LIMPE FUCHS - Workshop
Sunday 15 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
1pm-3pm | £15 | Very limited places: TICKETS
LIMPE FUCHS is a German sound artist and instrument builder
whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the
ecology of the space at hand. Using wood and granite stone rows, ringing
bronze within pendulum string instruments and employing the percussion,
viola and voice she studied at the Munich Conservatory she sensitises
the process of hearing through an exploration of music-making as a part
of everyday life. An original member of ‘70s Krautrock duo Anima Sound,
Limpe and then husband sculptor Paul Fuchs embodied a radical form of
free living, farming and building instruments like the Fuchshorn,
Fuchszither and Fuchsbass at a professional metal workshop in their
Pfarrhof—a thousand-year-old former priest house—in rural Bavaria. Anima
Musica' epitomised the ingenious marginal freak scene of the sixties
and seventies and are often cited as a key influence on Krautrock. In
1971 they hitched a handmade mobile home and stage to an old Hanomag
tractor and toured Europe bringing their anarchic, uncompromising
improvisations to an impromptu public at 19 kilometers per hour. A
champion of egalitarian performance, Limpe quit the group in the ‘80s
when new experimental theatre work demanded agreement with more members
and she felt that her voice was being compromised. Ever since she has
devoted herself to “making music while listening to the streaming of
time…with simplicity and emotion”, following the influence of soundscape
artists. Whether improvising solo or with other players, Limpe
unfailingly coaxes an otherworldly atmosphere from the sounds and
silence of her surroundings with a childlike wonder, always open to
surprise. Her engaging performances require attention from the audience
as she moves freely in space evoking her natural sound-scapes while
playing her viola woodhorn, bamboo flute, pendulumstring, a four-meter-
steel constructed lithophone, sheet metal, pieces of wood and singing in
her unique ephemeral bird-like style.
We follow up the Saturday night concert with a Sunday afternoon workshop based around a sound installation of Limpe Fuchs. Limpe invites participants to play her instruments in the sound installation and they can bring their own instruments too. Only three are playing, the others are listening. When all have played in different combinations, we decide how to go on. It is important to stay simple, so that the instruments are treated with love and the skill of ones hands is not overstrained. The sound of the ensemble has to be in balance between chaos and order. When the handling of the tools and precision of listening is growing starts nonverbal communication with music. http://www.limpefuchs.de/en/ WATERLESS HILLS is a new project put together by drummer Andrew Cheetham (now playing with Richard Dawson, Kiran Leonard, Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura etc). The group consists of Andrew and two further members of the Manchester Underground wrecking crew - dbh (Kiran Leonard band, Irma Vep band, Jim Ghedi band, his own bad self) on violin; Gavin Clarke (DSDV) on bass – and augmented by Cambridge-based avant-folk musician C Joynes on electric guitar. Their debut album 'The Great Mountain' (out 29th Feb on Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records) was recorded in one day direct to 1/4” tape at Hallé St Michaels, Manchester. All tracks were wholly improvised, and the tapes document a slowly-evolving interplay and, at times, ‘on-the-edge’ exchange between the players. The results were eventually shaped into an imaginary soundtrack to an orientalist western loosely themed around Freya Stark's 1935 travelogue 'The Valleys Of The Assassins' and the surrealist occult art of Ithel Colquohoun. https://waterlesshills.bandcamp.com/ |
Thanks for your time, see you on Monday!
Have a brilliant weekend!
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