Kristin Hersh - back in London next April!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio)
FRED ABONG 


Thursday 21 April 2022


The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD

7.30pm | £25 | https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb

KRISTIN HERSH, most recognised as the front person for the influential art-punk band Throwing Muses and power trio 50FOOTWAVE, will be touring the UK in Spring 2019 with Rob Ahlers (50 Foot Wave) on drums and Fred Abong (Throwing Muses, Belly) on bass. Throwing Muses first gained traction in the early '80s, playing with similarly singular artists, such as The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. They continue to release ground-breaking music, most recently with 2013's double CD masterpiece 'Purgatory/Paradise'. Kristin's solo career spun off in 1994 with the release of 'Hips and Makers', a widely acclaimed album that included 'Your Ghost', a duet with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. Since then, Kristin has released a steady stream of distinctly individual solo albums, including 2010's 'Crooked', released as her first in the inventive book/CD format for which she is now known.

2016's 'Wyatt at the Coyote Palace', on which Kristin played all of the instruments, received rave reviews; an explosive defined by blistering guitars, powerful drumming and her signature visceral vocal technique. Her poignant true stories bring the listener into what the BBC calls Hersh's "dark and dizzy world". In 2004, Kristin formed the noise rock power trio 50FOOTWAVE, releasing a series of frighteningly intense mini-albums, all available for download free of charge. Their most recent 'Bath White' EP was described as "a series of loud explosions, of velvet like dreams all intermingled at the same time. Bath White takes no prisoners." Kristin's writing career has flourished with the highly acclaimed 'Paradoxical Undressing' (released as 'Rat Girl' in the USA) and the award winning 'Don't Suck, Don't Die', a personal account of her long friendship with the late Vic Chesnutt, as well as the enchanting books which now accompany each of her record releases. Kristin's tenth studio album, 'Possible Dust Clouds' was a highly personalised sociopathic gem delivered as a futuristic rewriting of how music works, a melodious breeze with a tail wind of venomous din. Enveloping the juxtaposition of the concept of 'dark sunshine', a brooding solo record created with friends to expand her off-kilter sonic vision; a squally, squeaky mix of discordant beauty. 'Possible Dust Clouds' is a glorious return to form for one of alternative rock's true innovators.
https://www.kristinhersh.com/

FRED ABONG will be supporting Kristin on her current UK tour dates. Fred is a friend of Kristin’s and former Throwing Muses and Belly bass player. Fred will be touring his new solo acoustic EP, described by himself as sounding like a “ragged Replacements”.
http://www.fredabong.com/music/

'Never Noticed' - new Philip Frobos vid!

Time to waltz with a signature cocktail, here’s the video for Philip Frobos’ third single ‘Never Noticed’, taken from his forthcoming album and novel ‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’! Reach for those celery bitters!

Huge thanks to Ears To Feed for the premiere! ‘Never Noticed’ is out now as a digital single everywhere.
‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’ will be released on October 22nd through Upset The Rhythm (album) and Hex Enduction (book).

 

Hen Ogledd - London concert booked for December 7th!

 

Now we’re increasingly becoming free humans we have a long overdue HEN OGLEDD show to share with you! Dust off your diary for Dec 7th! This will be rhyfeddol!



Upset The Rhythm presents…

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

A band project 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/

 

 

 

Robert Sotelo announces 'Celebrant' album, new single revealed!

Time to celebrate the arrival of ‘Celebrant’, Robert Sotelo’s classy new album of pristine DIY pop out Nov 12th on Upset The Rhythm! 

Today we’re announcing this ambitious synth-centric collection of unbridled songs with Sotelo’s ultra-catchy first single ‘Influencer’. ‘Influencer’ is released today as a digital single in all habitual zones and in this mind-warping video of Sotelo’s cryogenically-preserved head reanimated in song, yes really!

‘Celebrant’ is available to pre-order now in our UTR webshop, heads you win!
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Sotelo is a mercurial melodist building a resplendent world of pristine DIY pop from the ground up. The Glasgow-based artist’s songs are meticulously crafted, patchworked together with eclectic arrangements and ardent vocal performances. ‘Celebrant’ was intended to be and still is to some extent a joyous wedding album (Sotelo is recently married), but in his own words “the pandemic and the death of my aunt Carmen intersected with the original concept so the album is darker than intended in places.” More cinematic and measured than prior albums, Sotelo expounds that “it is purposefully a bigger sounding attempt at my keyboard songs and I felt more ambitious about it in general.” That’s certainly reflected in these twelve sophisticated loops of song, all curiously affecting and catchy, sprinkled with Sotelo’s offbeat musings and keenly accurate observations. Guitars are rarely employed on this record with Sotelo recruiting Iain Mccall, Ross Blake, Celia Morgan and David Maxwell to contribute brass, woodwind, spoken word and acoustic drums respectively. All of these additions blend well with the album’s synthetic core, softening and subtly shaping its pop-first nature into something more nuanced, vulnerable and human.

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 a wedding in unsettled times. What a treat that we’ve all been invited to the reception!

screensaver - Skin (video)

Melbourne post-punks screensaver return with their sparking new single ‘Skin’ today!
Clash have kindly premiered the track with the video over here!

Bringing the gloom to the room and their rapport to the dancefloor, screensaver make sad dancers of us all! We’re hooked.
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Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ya video!

 

"Running with the torches!” Seeing that it’s a new moon we’re sharing Bertie Marshall’s new video for polyrhythmic thrill-ride ‘Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ya’ today! A crush/crash of energy, feedback and colour in sound and vision. The video is also accompanied by a reflection from Bertie on the Behaviour Red 7”s first outing (1982) from his forthcoming memoir too! ‘Ke Ke Ke Ke Ke Ya’ appears on Bertie’s album ‘Exhibit’, out this Halloween on Upset The Rhythm.

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