Eric Chenaux - London show announced for March 2022!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ERIC CHENAUX
Friday 4th March
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £12 | https://link.dice.fm/V5e79467840a

ERIC CHENAUX lives in Paris but was a fixture of DIY and experimental music in Toronto throughout the 1990s and 2000s, progressing from local postpunk legends Phleg Camp and Lifelikeweeds towards a highly distinctive technical and gestural mastery of amplified acoustic guitar. Eric Chenaux operates among various musical ‘traditions’ but perhaps most broadly, his records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in very particular, unique, idiosyncratic ways – and quite without irony or cynicism, through love. Because fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzes, chortles, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his mellow, dexterous crooning and his highly experimental (and equally dexterous) guitar explorations, explodes even unconventional notions of singing and accompaniment, of tonal and timbral interplay between guitar and voice.

Constellation has been home to Eric's "solo" records since 2006 – a brilliant discography of adventurous, sumptuous, mostly languorous deconstructed folk, jazz and pop-influenced balladry rooted in the juxtaposition of Chenaux's fried guitar playing and his gorgeously clear and lyrical singing voice.

Eric also composes and performs music for film and contemporary dance, and collaborates on numerous sound installations with visual/sound artist Marla Hlady, including Smedaholmen Tourist (with Amplifiers) (2012) for The Thousand And One Birds festival in Norway, and with filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, including a two week residency at Bristol's Cube Cinema, where they produced and performed the film Play The Cube in 2014. Chenaux has also performed and recorded with countless other artists over his 25-year career, including membership in Sandro Perri's band and appearances on Perri's albums, in duo with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (a celebrated 2012 release on Grapefruit Records), Eloise Decazes, Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Martin Tetrault, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren, Norberto Lobo, Nathaniel Mann and many more.

http://ericchenaux.com/

 

 

 

Seasons Felicitations!

Seasons Felicitations!
Upset The Rhythm turns 18 years old today and to celebrate with suitable festive panache we’re offering you all 18% off our entire catalogue for the next 18 days. Just use the code UTR18 at the checkout of our UTR webshop here: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

XMAS = SORTED

2021 saw Upset The Rhythm release an astounding armful of 9 records by Buffet Lunch, Screensaver, Philip Frobos, Robert Sotelo, Kaputt, Bertie Marshall, Clear History and Normil Hawaiians! We could not be prouder of these essential outpourings of underground culture. Thanks so much for all your kindness and support in making our record label and concerts possible this year, you put the baubles on our tree!

May merriment abound and all your Christmases be happy and healthy,
UTR
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'Deviation' video by Nicfit!

Japanese punks Nicfit have a restive (and decidedly not festive) new single out now called ‘Deviation’! Here’s the brilliantly tensile video.

‘Deviation’ is also streaming on all the usual digi-platz and features on the band’s debut LP ‘Fuse’, out Jan 14th through Upset The Rhythm.

 

Hen Ogledd next Tuesday in London!

 

Alright, we made it to December!   Upset The Rhythm tiptoes into 'last show of the year' territory next Tuesday with a very special, festive visitation from Hen Ogledd.   Featuring the combined talents Richard Dawson (bass, vocals), Sally Pilkington (electronics, vocals), Rhodri Davies (electric harp, vocals) & Dawn Bothwell (electronics, vocals), Hen Ogledd are the most remarkable pop group. A little bit wonky, sci-fi focused, genre-leaping, improv-peppered pop group! Pop first and foremost, triangulating from the distant corners of joy and sensibility.   Tuesday's concert will also mark our 18th birthday as Upset The Rhythm too, now we can legally attend all these shows we've been plotting.   So yes, Corsica Studios is our chosen hub for celebrations and the conceptual pop powerhouse known as Jenny Moore's Mysic Business are set to stun all and sundry too.   See you there with bells on!

In other London show news, this week we announced a corker of an event for April 16th with the bowl-you-over lineup of Protomartyr, Traams and Rattle!   This concert will take place at Islington Assembly Hall and tickets went on sale this morning no less, whoo! We've been waiting ages to see Protomartyr again, it will be cathartic.   We also managed to reschedule our recently postponed Buffet Lunch concert which will now take place on April Fool's Day at MOTH Club. Me Lost Me and Shake Chain are still confirmed to perform and original tickets for Cafe OTO's Nov 6th event are still valid.   Coby Sey was also confirmed to support Grouper at our Barbican concert next April too, perfect!

Upset The Rhythm presents… HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb HEN OGLEDD are a band comprising Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington, Hen Ogledd’s meaning comes from the Welsh name for The Old North. Following on from the quartet’s previous album Mogic, with its digital overtones and themes of artificial intelligence, Hen Ogledd's second album Free Humans takes a deliberately organic and natural approach. Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary... it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvellous whole. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world and also a sense of hope and liberation in their hands at the same time. https://www.henogledd.com/ JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS is a London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up listening to in the Canadian prairies. A testament to the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing, the band features members of Bas Jan, Trash Kit, F*Choir and Bamboo as well as solo singer-songwriter Rubie. They draw inspiration from artists such as Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, as well as feminist poets like Sharon Olds and Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne’s musical use of language, breaking down words into rhythmic tools. ‘He Earns Enough’ EP out on Lost Map Records now! https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-moores-mystic-business

Have the best weekend! Thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

HEN OGLEDD
JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS

Tuesday 7 December
Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb

 

CLEMENTINE VALENTINE
(PURPLE PILGRIMS)
KINLAW
Monday 7 March 2022
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cDMTPCt5Dkb

 

FUZZ

(Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich)

Friday 18 March 2022

Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP

6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4

(This show is rescheduled from July 22^nd 2020 & March 31^st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

DAN DEACON

Friday 25 March 2022

Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY

6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb

(Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines)

BUFFET LUNCH
ME LOST ME
SHAKE CHAIN
Friday 1 April 2022
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb
(Tickets still valid from the postponed Cafe OTO, Nov 6th 2021 show)

 

GROUPER

COBY SEY

Thursday 14 April 2022
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £20 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/uBMlbma5ykb 

(Promoted in collaboration with our friends at Barbican)

 

PROTOMARTYR
TRAAMS
RATTLE
Saturday 16 April 2022
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I78d1a3906de

KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio)
FRED ABONG
Thursday 21 April 2022
The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb

 

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

Saturday 7 May 2022

OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL

6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3

(This show is rescheduled from May 12^th and Sep 8^th 2020 & May 7^th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)

Protomartyr in London next April!

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PROTOMARTYR
TRAAMS
RATTLE
Saturday 16 April
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I78d1a3906de 

(Tickets on sale from 10am Fri 3rd Dec)

PROTOMARTYR play a taut, austere rock that's been incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed occasionally by space heaters. With respect to the local predecessors, this isn't the primitive stomp of The Dirtbombs or The Stooges' greasy roar. Punk works, kind of, even if it leaves the hardcore kids confused. Protomartyr's economical rock elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek. Singer Joe Casey's dry declarative snarl serves as a reliable anchor, granting his bandmates (guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson) the opportunity to explore textures and reinforce the rhythm section.

Next April sees Protomartyr finally touring the UK in support of their 2020 album ‘Ultimate Success Today’! The group’s epic fifth album moves like a river, with waves of sound that are quiet, loud, empty, full, but flowing together and shaping itself around the words. To see these songs performed live finally will be a cathartic release, this is what we’ve been waiting for!
http://www.protomartyrband.com/ 

TRAAMS formed in late 2011 via their shared love of groups like Television, Battles, The Stooges, Can & Women. Having released EP Ladders & LP Grin via FatCat Records in 2013 they saw through the year playing shows with bands such as Wire, Fidlar, Parquet Courts, & Temples. 2014 saw TRAAMS support Drenge on a sold out UK tour, before venturing to the states for SXSW and releasing the Cissa EP. 2021 witnessed Traams release ‘4-songs’ (FatCat), a collection of some of their stand alone tracks plus the never before released ‘Karma Kat’. TRAAMS' music is a distinct form of post-punk leaning Krautrock that is in equal parts catchy and hypnotic.
https://traams.bandcamp.com/  

RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo who 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. 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 recently through Upset The Rhythm.
https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/

Buffet Lunch - London concert rescheduled!

This show is rescheduled! Was at Cafe OTO - Nov 6th, now at MOTH Club - April Fool's Day!

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

BUFFET LUNCH
ME LOST ME
SHAKE CHAIN
Friday 1 April 2022
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb
(Tickets still valid from the postponed Cafe OTO, Nov 6th 2021 show)

BUFFET LUNCH are a Scottish group who make it their mission to craft satisfyingly imperfect pop songs filled with imagery and humour. The group's elementary parts are Perry O'Bray (Vocals/Keys/Guitar), Neil Robinson (Bass), John Muir (Lead Guitar) & Luke Moran (Drums), united by a shared love of music on the ABBA-to-Beefheart axis. These four ricochet between Glasgow and Edinburgh, creating music that bristles with DIY spirit and upbeat wonkiness. Their tracks are vigorous excursions, meandering into clattersome terrain as often as hiking up into the breezy, melodious foothills. The desire to lead the listener along a curious tale helps tie things together, showcasing a lyrical playfulness that pins down their puzzle of sound. Following on from their excellent ‘The Power of Rocks’ album (Upset The Rhythm), the band return this November with a vigorous new 7” EP featuring the tracks ‘Mild Weather’ and ‘Cheeks’.
https://buffetlunchband.tumblr.com/

ME LOST ME is the electronic music project of Newcastle based musician Jayne Dent. Described by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise", Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with genre, taking influence from folk, electronica, art pop, ambient and noise music to create a beguiling mix of soaring vocals, synth, field recordings and hypnotic rhythms. Her live shows are atmospheric, dark and playful, with a repertoire that explores storytelling through original songs, improvisations and reworkings of traditional ballads. She recently released her second album 'The Good Noise’, out November 2020, was described as 'stunning' and 'remarkable' by NARC Magazine demonstrates a maturing of her sound and a deepening of her exploration of site and experiments with genre.
https://www.melostme.com/

SHAKE CHAIN are a 4-piece experimental group formed of artist Kate Mahony (Vocals), Joe Fergey (Drums), Robert Eyres (Guitar/Synth) and Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth) hailing from Bournemouth, London and Oxford. Formed through a love of thought-provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption, they recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ in 2019 with sound artist David Carugo at Oxford Brookes University, released by Permanent Slump. Shake Chain provide a fusion of post-punk grooves, noise samples and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. 

https://katemahony.com/Shake-Chain

Brigid Mae Power tomorrow in London, new music from Nicfit and Kaputt announced!

 

Hello everyone! Huge thanks to all of you for coming to see Shannon Lay, Astrid Sonne and The Microphones last week, was wild to see so many of you. Some of our favourite shows to date too, we were blown away, far away! Only just got back to London.   Upset The Rhythm now have just two concerts left for 2021, tomorrow's stunning evening of songcraft with Brigid Mae Power & her full band at The Lexington, supported by Marta Del Grandi no less! Whoooo, what a treat! We'll have tickets on the door from 7.30pm for this one, live music starting 8.20pm.   Then on December 7th we're lucky enough to have Hen Ogledd (Richard Dawson, Sally Pilkington, Rhodri Davies & Dawn Bothwell) triangulating around Corsica Studios. Jenny Moore's Mysic Business are going to perform at this concert too, so quite the festive knees-up is planned! Mince pies for all!   Read on for full details on both of those crucial forays.

UTR label news next!   Glasgow post-punks Kaputt return today with an early taste of their new album in the form of surprise digital single ‘Gone West’! A restless riot of sax breaks, fidgeting drums and guitar riffage that continually swims against the tide. Cal from Kaputt shared that “Gone West is about the migration of affluence, when industry clashed with the living standards of the wealthy. The smoke blows East, so the money moves West.” Such choice lyrical concerns and their pointed address are set off against ‘Gone West’s needling impulse to dance its way into your brain. ‘Gone West’ is just the tip of the iceberg though, Kaputt’s new album looks set to sink us all! ‘Gone West’ is released digitally today through Upset The Rhythm on all the usual digi-platz. It is taken from Kaputt’s as yet untitled second album, due out in the first half of 2022. Kaputt will be playing the following shows in the coming months, including a spree of dates with Squid in January: NOV 2021 25th - Manchester @ The White Hotel 26th - Sheffield @ Delicious Clam 27th - London @ Sebright Arms 28th - Bristol @ The Lanes 29th - Leeds @ Wharf Chambers 30th - York @ Fulford Arms DEC 2021 1st - Newcastle @ Cumberland Arms 10th - Glasgow @ Stereo JAN 2022 13th - Glasgow @ St Luke’s 26th - Belfast @ Empire w/ SQUID 27th - Galway @ Roisin Dubh w/ SQUID 28th - Cork @ Cyprus Avenue  w/ SQUID 30th - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID 31st - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID

We also proudly announced in the last few days Nicfit's gleeful nervous itch of a debut album 'Fuse'! Our 144th Upset The Rhythm release (what?!) and our first confirmed title for 2022, coming out in mid-Jan!   Nicfit are from Nagoya, Japan and flip between head-down tumbles of hardcore bounce and freaked feedback clamber. ‘Fuse’ is a flexing wonder of a debut, packed with browbeaten stomp, taut breakouts, guitars that sound more akin to warning sirens and an astute railing vocal delivery.   These ten original blasts of song, and one cover of the Urinals (‘Ack, ack, ack’) are as pummelsome as they are keen to race against the clock. Total life-affirming trample, with pointed metallic moments and glammy undercurrents that forever soar out of the sprawl.   'Fuse' is released on UTR on Jan 14th. Available to pre-order now.

Best news! Very happy to say Bertie Marshall's strikingly original album 'Exhibit' is now available on 180g black vinyl! Available through all the best shops and our very own webstore! Really is a thing of beauty in sound and vision.

Upset The Rhythm presents… BRIGID MAE POWER MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB £10 | 7.30pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4   * Nb. This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets still valid   BRIGID MAE POWER paints expansive songs that are effortless, hypnotic and folk-oriented like Judee Sill, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten. The third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter, ‘Head Above The Water’ is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country - an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power’s distinctive vocal make this an achingly beautiful body of work. Recorded in analogue studio The Green Door in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing alongside Brigid and Peter Broderick. It’s a continuing tale of everyday survival; more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes. Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics. After two lauded albums for Tompkins Square, Brigid Mae Power releases her new album on 5th June via Fire Records. www.brigidmaepower.com   MARTA DEL GRANDI is an award-winning jazz vocalist navigating new territory, crossing borders of genre and style from West Coast ‘60s to ambient exotica, from plaintive Lynchian etherealism to dramatic Morricone scores. Newly signed to Fire Records, the eclectic Italian-born singer songwriter releases her new album ‘Until We Fossilize’ on November 5th 2021. Filled with thoughts and emotions, stories, rumours and beliefs, ‘Until We Fossilize’ is an unraveling of time and distance; a self-produced gem filled with lush strings, electronic ambience and eclectic vocals. https://www.firerecords.com/artists/marta-del-grandi/

Upset The Rhythm presents… HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb HEN OGLEDD are a band comprising Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington, Hen Ogledd’s meaning comes from the Welsh name for The Old North. Following on from the quartet’s previous album Mogic, with its digital overtones and themes of artificial intelligence, Hen Ogledd's second album Free Humans takes a deliberately organic and natural approach. Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary... it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvellous whole. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world and also a sense of hope and liberation in their hands at the same time. https://www.henogledd.com/ JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS is a London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up listening to in the Canadian prairies. A testament to the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing, the band features members of Bas Jan, Trash Kit, F*Choir and Bamboo as well as solo singer-songwriter Rubie. They draw inspiration from artists such as Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, as well as feminist poets like Sharon Olds and Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne’s musical use of language, breaking down words into rhythmic tools. ‘He Earns Enough’ EP out on Lost Map Records now! https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-moores-mystic-business

See you tomorrow at The Lexington! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BRIGID MAE POWER (full band) MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4 (This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb   SHOPPING - CANCELLED (refunds now available) Monday 14 February 2022 The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/43JnT6NN71   CLEMENTINE VALENTINE (PURPLE PILGRIMS) KINLAW Monday 7 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cDMTPCt5Dkb   FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 18 March 2022 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from July 22nd 2020 & March 31st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   FUTURE ISLANDS DAN DEACON Friday 25 March 2022 Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY 6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb (Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines) GROUPER Thursday 14 April 2022 Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/uBMlbma5ykb  (Promoted in collaboration with our friends at Barbican)   KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio) FRED ABONG Thursday 21 April 2022 The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Saturday 7 May 2022 OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3 (This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)

 

Kaputt return with 'Gone West'!

Glasgow post-punks Kaputt return today with an early taste of their new album in the form of stand-alone digital single ‘Gone West’! A restless riot of sax breaks, fidgeting drums and guitar riffage that continually swims against the tide. Cal from Kaputt shared that “Gone West is about the migration of affluence, when industry clashed with the living standards of the wealthy. The smoke blows East, so the money moves West.” Such choice lyrical concerns and their pointed address are set off against ‘Gone West’s needling impulse to dance its way into your brain. ‘Gone West’ is just the tip of the iceberg though, Kaputt’s new album looks set to sink us all!

‘Gone West’ is released digitally today through Upset The Rhythm. It is taken from Kaputt’s as yet untitled second album, due out in the first half of 2022. Kaputt will be playing the following shows in the coming months, including a spree of dates with Squid in January:


NOV 2021
25th - Manchester @ The White Hotel
26th - Sheffield @ Delicious Clam
27th - London @ Sebright Arms
28th - Bristol @ The Lanes
29th - Leeds @ Wharf Chambers
30th - York @ Fulford Arms

DEC 2021
1st - Newcastle @ Cumberland Arms
10th - Glasgow @ Stereo

JAN 2022
13th - Glasgow @ St Luke’s
26th - Belfast @ Empire w/ SQUID
27th - Galway @ Roisin Dubh w/ SQUID
28th - Cork @ Cyprus Avenue  w/ SQUID
30th - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID
31st - Dublin @ Button Factory w/ SQUID

Exhibit on LP!

  

Best news! Bertie Marshall's strikingly original album 'Exhibit' is now available on vinyl! Available through all the best shops and our very own webstore too:

https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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Robert Sotelo released & concerts for Astrid Sonne & Shannon Lay next week in London!

 

Hello again!   Q. Who’s the man behind the mask? A. Robert Sotelo!   Q. Did you know his incredible new album of pristine DIY pop 'Celebrant' is released by Upset The Rhythm digitally today? A. Now I do! I heard there’s a vinyl version coming in the next few weeks too, lovely stuff!   Q. Shall we celebrate with this video for ‘The Currency is Love’? A. You bet!

'Celebrant’ is a plucky synth-centric collection of unbridled songs at times surefooted at others threatened by disconnect, skilfully steered by Sotelo with typical classy touch. ‘Dear Resident’ is divinely metronomic, ‘Behaviour’ luxuriates in pitching a silken saxophone into a frenzied drum-off. ‘The Currency Is Love’ swaggers with 80s vibes aplenty: “all the globe is listening as a system of concern” sings Sotelo in clipped manner, enjoying the placement of each word in each song precisely, however seemingly stumbled upon and surreal their selection might seem. With ‘Celebrant’ Robert Sotelo has made an album that sounds as big as its heart and imagination, true depth of feeling, true depth of connection. It’s an ornate album, complex and thoughtful, a fitting tribute to love in unsettled times.

In other label news this proper humdinger of a 7" by Buffet Lunch is now in stock in our webshop!   Gigantic in sound and vision and wit, what a treat!   We also have new records from Philip Frobos, Normil Hawaiians, Bertie Marshall and Screensaver all available to order too!

We also wanted to share this fantastic in-depth chat with the inimitable Bertie Marshall with you. Bertie was featured in last week's Hello Goodbye special for Resonance FM, many tracks from ‘Exhibit’ were aired and even a live bootleg from our Cafe OTO launch party too. Bertie talks about his whole career so far with many fascinating insights cropping up as an eye-witness to punk in the UK. Enjoy!   Listen again here.

OK, shows, shows, shows!   We have some tremendous concerts coming up in London as we wend our way into the Xmas season. Next week is no exception.   We have Shannon Lay and Naima Bock on Monday at St Pancras Old Church bringing their reflective musings, acoustic poignancy and ethereal clouds of song.   Then next Tuesday night we're lucky enough to have Astrid Sonne performing at Iklectik with Nexcyia playing a set too! Astrid Sonne is a Copenhagen-based composer and viola player. Astrid excels at opening up an electronic space to channel different perceptions of sensory and emotional states of being through open, melodic compositions. Sublime!   Read on for lots more show-related  gubbins, including full listings for Brigid Mae Power (Nov 23rd, Lexington) and Hen Ogledd (Dec 7th, corsica Studios) too.

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON LAY NAIMA BOCK Monday 15 November St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/LWiCXICpNib    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 few years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Shannon’s new album, 'Geist', is tender intensity, placeless and ethereal. It exists in the chasms of the present - a world populated by shadow selves, spiritual awakenings, déjà vu, and past lives. “Something sleeps inside us,” Lay insists on the opening track, and that’s the guiding philosophy throughout. A winding, golden, delicate thread of intuition that explores the unknown, the possibility. Lay tracked vocals and guitar at Jarvis Tavinere of Woods’s studio, then sent the songs out to multi-instrumentalists Ben Boye (Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in Los Angeles and Devin Hoff (Sharon Van Etten, Cibo Matto) in New York; trusting their musical instincts and intuition. She then sent those recordings to Sofia Arreguin (Wand) and Aaron Otheim (Heatwarmer, Mega Bog) for additional keys, while Ty Segall contributed a guitar solo on “Shores.” As a whole, 'Geist' is both esoteric and accessible. There’s the concise, pared-back cover of Syd Barrett’s tilt-a-whirl-esque 'Late Night', while 'Rare to Wake', inspired by Dune, is existential and meditative, a circular guitar riff looping at the core of it.  'Awaken and Allow', is ancient-feeling and mainly a cappella, its melody channels her deep Irish roots, a moment of reflection, before a drop happens - its intensity mirroring the anticipation and anxiety that come with taking the first step to accepting change. 'Geist' is released on October 8th through Sub Pop. https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/ NAIMA BOCK co-founded Goat Girl with friends at age 15, and after releasing their debut album on Rough Trade Records she left the band to explore other musical avenues. Her music now combines folk influenced songwriting with jazzy instrumentation, partially inspired by Naima's childhood growing up in Brazil. https://soundcloud.com/naimabock

Upset The Rhythm presents… ASTRID SONNE NEXCYIA Tuesday 16 November IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG 7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/VcvM72ssNib ASTRID SONNE is a Copenhagen-based composer and viola player, using playing and listening as the foundation of her compositional practice. Her third album “outside of your lifetime” (September 2021) is a precisely created record that Sonne arrived at via improvisation, trimming and reassembly. It is made with keys, strings, voice and buttons. Many of the instruments and inputs on the record are carefully processed to efface their personality, so their origins are never exactly clear. One may follow seamless transitions between pure generated oscillating waves and true ten-finger choral organ work. Other tracks present fierce waveforms through a shimmery rotary pulse, heated and perfectly suited for live experience of the music. Hands-on and hands-off effects bleed into each other, and one often can’t tell the difference. The compositions appear like sculptures. With “outside of your lifetime”, Astrid Sonne presents physical music, further developing an expression formed through previous releases. Melodies and deliveries that conjures a clear image of movement, like a sound that has and is humanity. A computer can coat that sound, beautifully, but it cannot make it. And physical music sounds different. It doesn’t sound like music built from yesterday’s ghosts and memories in the machine; it doesn’t sound like a forecasting of the future as we worship the tomorrow that technology will bring us. It sounds like today, in the space around us. https://astridsonne.bandcamp.com/ NEXCYIA is an African-American/French sound artist and experimental ambient musician based in London and Paris. Working with found sound, Nexcyia weaves together harsh sound design and swooping soundscapes into works that bridge many moods, emotions and places through noise, granular synthesis, textures and rhythms. https://linktr.ee/nexcyia

Upset The Rhythm presents… BRIGID MAE POWER MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB £10 | 7.30pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4   * Nb. This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets still valid   BRIGID MAE POWER paints expansive songs that are effortless, hypnotic and folk-oriented like Judee Sill, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten. The third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter, ‘Head Above The Water’ is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country - an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power’s distinctive vocal make this an achingly beautiful body of work. Recorded in analogue studio The Green Door in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing alongside Brigid and Peter Broderick. It’s a continuing tale of everyday survival; more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes. Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics. After two lauded albums for Tompkins Square, Brigid Mae Power releases her new album on 5th June via Fire Records. www.brigidmaepower.com   MARTA DEL GRANDI is an award-winning jazz vocalist navigating new territory, crossing borders of genre and style from West Coast ‘60s to ambient exotica, from plaintive Lynchian etherealism to dramatic Morricone scores. Newly signed to Fire Records, the eclectic Italian-born singer songwriter releases her new album ‘Until We Fossilize’ on November 5th 2021. Filled with thoughts and emotions, stories, rumours and beliefs, ‘Until We Fossilize’ is an unraveling of time and distance; a self-produced gem filled with lush strings, electronic ambience and eclectic vocals. https://www.firerecords.com/artists/marta-del-grandi/

Upset The Rhythm presents… HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb HEN OGLEDD are a band comprising Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington, Hen Ogledd’s meaning comes from the Welsh name for The Old North. Following on from the quartet’s previous album Mogic, with its digital overtones and themes of artificial intelligence, Hen Ogledd's second album Free Humans takes a deliberately organic and natural approach. Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary... it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvellous whole. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world and also a sense of hope and liberation in their hands at the same time. https://www.henogledd.com/ JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS is a London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up listening to in the Canadian prairies. A testament to the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing, the band features members of Bas Jan, Trash Kit, F*Choir and Bamboo as well as solo singer-songwriter Rubie. They draw inspiration from artists such as Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, as well as feminist poets like Sharon Olds and Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne’s musical use of language, breaking down words into rhythmic tools. ‘He Earns Enough’ EP out on Lost Map Records now! https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-moores-mystic-business

Thanks for reading, see you next week! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHANNON LAY NAIMA BOCK Monday 15 November St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LWiCXICpNib    ASTRID SONNE NEXCYIA Tuesday 16 November IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG 7.30pm | £11.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rxWz0lUxNib   THE MICROPHONES caroline Tuesday 16 November EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 6pm - 10pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wqbAwjtt1hb   BRIGID MAE POWER (full band) MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4 (This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb   SHOPPING - CANCELLED (refunds now available) Monday 14 February 2022 The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/43JnT6NN71   CLEMENTINE VALENTINE (PURPLE PILGRIMS) KINLAW Monday 7 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cDMTPCt5Dkb   FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 18 March 2022 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from July 22nd 2020 & March 31st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   FUTURE ISLANDS DAN DEACON Friday 25 March 2022 Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY 6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb (Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines) GROUPER Thursday 14 April 2022 Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/uBMlbma5ykb  (Promoted in collaboration with our friends at Barbican)   KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio) FRED ABONG Thursday 21 April 2022 The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Saturday 7 May 2022 OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3 (This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)