Friday 26 August 2022

Deerhoof and Max Tundra - next week in London!

 

 
 
How you doing?
 
Upset The Rhythm have two London shows coming up next week so we thought we'd remind you in timely manner before the long and luxuriant weekend.
 
Next Wednesday we pitch up at Electric Ballroom for a whirlwind of a show with Deerhoof and Sacred Paws. Hot on the heels of their 18th studio album 'Actually You Can', Deerhoof are coming to London to share their exuberant, agile and tirelessly creative rock music with us all! 'Actually You Can' is packed with lean, punk cacophonies so we're expecting the roof to be blown off. We're beyond happy to have Glasgow group Sacred Paws playing too, shooting more technicolour joy into proceedings! Tickets still available, amps on from 8.15pm FYI.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Our second show next week falls on Friday 2nd September with unique electronic-pop wizard Max Tundra! This concert celebrates the 20th anniversary of his classic 'Mastered By Guy at the Exchange' album and his current clutch of reissues on Domino Records.This will be his first headline show in a decade and will hopefully summon a renaissance in all things maximalist and tundra-like, his time has arrived! Hypnotic group Bas Jan are playing this event too, plus Gus Bonito will be DJ-ing, result.
 
Read on for lots more detail below, including full listings for our forthcoming double evening spent in the pleasure of Jenny Moore and her piano and our concert for Jake Xerxes Fussell on October 14th at St John on Bethnal Green.
 
We also have terrific new events for Tara Clerkin Trio, Liiek and Miltown announced in our upcoming programme too!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Now onto some UTR record label news!
 
Robert Sotelo has an immense new album entitled 'Indoors' coming out digitally through Upset The Rhythm on September 16th. It's a synth-bleached collection of lean pop potions and hillsides of emotion. Technically a sister album to his recent 'Celebrant' mastermove, 'Indoors' has more life about it than a simple companion piece. Ten hugely reflective bops that cascaded into being during The Great Reset's life eclipse.
 
Check out 'Caught In A Shape' out now on all digital zones and premiered this week by Raven Sings The Blues! 'Indoors' is available to pre-order now on our bandcamp page too.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
DEERHOOF
SACRED PAWS
Wednesday 31 August
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden, London, NW1 8QP, UK
7pm | £17 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/pc5188b40f90

DEERHOOF have continually quested for daring storytelling and radical sounds over their eighteen boundless albums, as experimental as they are pop. 2020’s critically acclaimed, overwhelmingly prescient Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale visions of post-apocalypse, welding intrinsic melodies with absurdist digital recording methods. Its immediate sequel Love-Lore, a live covers medley, channeled futurist mid-century artists - Parliament, Sun Ra and Stockhausen, to name a handful - into a patchwork love letter to the anti-authoritarian expressions that inspire the band.

Deerhoof's latest, Actually, You Can, is a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalism’s purgatorial hold. The band says, “Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that gets deemed ugly, negative and hateful by the self-proclaimed guardians of 'common sense.' We'd hardly be destroying society by dismantling their colonial economics and prisons and gender roles and aesthetics. We'd be creating it!”
https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/
 
SACRED PAWS are a fantastic, intuitive dream punk duo, comprising Eilidh Rodgers of Golden Grrls on drums, and Rachel Aggs from Trash Kit and Shopping on guitar. Raw Soweto high-life riffs and rolling Afrobeat grooves are filtered through post-punk sass and ramshackle K Records charm. It’s an utterly joyous sound, the duo trading giddy melodies and righteous chants over febrile rhythms and chunky, infectious riffage. Rock Action released the band’s debut album ‘Strike A Match’ in 2017 and it received a slew of incredible reviews from the likes of Q, DIY, Clash, Loud & Quiet, The Skinny and was voted Scottish Album of the Year too! In 2019 they followed that up with ‘Run Around The Sun’ (out May 31st on Merge / Rock Action) brimming with upbeat reflections on growing up and looking back.
http://www.sacredpaws.co.uk/
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

MAX TUNDRA
BAS JAN
GUS BONITO (DJ Set)

Friday 2 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ka0f9869d209

MAX TUNDRA, aka Ben Jacobs, is a master of delightfully inscrutable, slyly tuneful electronic pop. His three albums recorded for Domino Records between 2000-2008 echo throughout much contemporary pop music. The first of the trilogy, Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be, is more or less the most experimental; the second, Mastered By Guy At The Exchange, perhaps the most joyful; and the third, Parallax Error Beheads You, the most riotous. All three albums remain essential and three are being reissued by Domino this summer! A remix mixtape entitled Remixtape featuring the likes of Julia Holter and Kero Kero Bonito will also arrive alongside the reissues on August 12th. The hyperpop pioneer has collaborated with the likes of Arca, Daphne & Celeste and A. G. Cook. The natural musical predecessor to the likes of PC Music, Max Tundra also boasts a remix roster which includes Pet Shop Boys, The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand. Join us for a very special concert from Max Tundra to celebrate these reissues on September 2nd, to the very day the exact 20th anniversary of landmark album release ‘Mastered By Guy At The Exchange’.
https://www.maxtundra.com/

BAS JAN are a London-based ensemble, this year they returned with an expanded line-up and a much-anticipated second album ‘Baby U Know’ (Lost Map). It is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2018 debut album Yes I Jan, which was hailed for its “messy majesty” (Uncut) and “beautifully fractured art-pop” (Mojo). Bas Jan were co-founded in 2015 by songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Serafina Steer. The band features Emma Smith (Jarv Is, Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder member of the Elysian Quartet) on violin, bass and electronics, Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business) on drums and Charlie Stock on electric violin.
https://basjan.bandcamp.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

JENNY MOORE
EVADNEY (Sep 13)
ZAHRA HAJI FATH ALI TEHRANI (Sep 14)
Tuesday 13 September & Wednesday 14 September
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16 8JN
7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://dice.fm/bundles/jenny-moore-in-london-3orl

JENNY MOORE is a composer, singer, drummer, performance artist and choir leader. Her London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business is 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. Their new EP, "He Earns Enough," was released on Lost Map Records in 2021.

Moore founded the alternative feminist choir F*Choir, composing and arranging for the diverse group of singers using non-gendered voice parts, graphic scores, no auditions to create highly energetic, rhythmic and political music. She's played in bands like the dance-punk trio Charismatic Megafauna and Bas Jan, committed to DIY and collective processes towards making and distributing music, workshops, artworks and performances. She has a monthly radio show on Soho Radio called 'Hitting Things,' and co-founded Bedfellows, a queer feminist sex education project. This performance will showcase Jenny Moore’s new set of piano songs, recently recorded at St Barnabas Church (Dalston) and available soon through Lost Map, and will feature members of her band Jenny Moore's Mystic Business and her punk choir F*Choir.
https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/music

EVADNEY captured his own outsider experience with his two stunning EPs of poetic electronic-pop odysseys on Black Acre Records. Led by his unique vocals, the politics of sexuality, identity and Evadney's intersectionality are played out across cinematic pieces of work. Growing up in the UK in a Caribbean family, Evadney’s sound has been shaped from his love of bold artists like Bjork, Kate Bush and Grace Jones, and later studying the likes of John Cale, Stockhausen and Musique concrete during his MA in Music Composition at Goldsmiths University.
https://evadney.bandcamp.com/

ZAHRA HAJI FATH ALI TEHRANI is a musician, composer, performer and award-winning director of the Young Women’s Music Project. She is based in Oxford where she was born and raised as a second-generation immigrant, her father having emigrated to the UK from Iran and her mother being Irish. Thoughts on identity run as an undercurrent through her creative process as she connects the different cultures she embodies. She released her self-produced EPs Wednesday’s Child and Atigheh under the name Despicable Zee. Her previous body of work centred around Zahra’s reflections on the experience of immigration and existing between cultures which are worlds apart. She wove in samples from Iranian ballads, lullabies from her Irish mother and Iranian grandmother, and sounds of her son that have been collected as he grows up, pockets of childhood captured in the quiet moments.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Friday 14 October
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cbb04f133040

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanizes his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways.

Jake’s excellent new album for Paradise of Bachelors ‘Good and Green Again’ finds him navigating fresh sonic and compositional landscapes on the most conceptually focused, breathtakingly rendered, and enigmatically poignant record of his catalog. Produced by James Elkington and featuring formidable players both familiar (Casey Toll, Libby Rodenbough) and new (Joe Westerlund, Bonnie Prince Billy), it includes Jake’s first original compositions; atmospheric arrangements with pedal steel, horns, and strings. Always compelling and deftly impressive, Jake’s live shows have become must attend events, so its with great honour that we welcome him back this October to London.
https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Enjoy the bank holiday, see you lots next week!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
DEERHOOF
SACRED PAWS
Wednesday 31 August
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden, London, NW1 8QP, UK
7pm | £17 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/pc5188b40f90
 
MAX TUNDRA
BAS JAN
GUS BONITO (DJ Set)
Friday 2 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ka0f9869d209

JENNY MOORE
EVADNEY (Sep 13)
ZAHRA HAJI FATH ALI TEHRANI (Sep 14)
Tuesday 13 September & Wednesday 14 September
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16 8JN
7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://dice.fm/bundles/jenny-moore-in-london-3orl
 
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Friday 14 October
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: link.dice.fm/cbb04f133040

PHEW
MODEL HOME

Sunday 16 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jd390b33780a
 
MIDWIFE
EUAN ALEXANDER MILLAR-MCMEEKEN
Tuesday 18 October
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zfe30c79959f
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
ES

Wednesday 19 October
Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS, UK
7.30pm | £8.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Qafa677add88
 
LIIEK
MILTOWN
Thursday 20 October
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: link.dice.fm/Xc2f14f7e2f0 

SARAH DAVACHI
Thursday 27 October
Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/aaa27bd3c37b
 
PROLAPSE
YEAH YEAH NOH
Saturday 29 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3
 
LANDE HEKT
JADE HAIRPINS
Monday 14 November
The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z293f7e05023
 
TARA CLERKIN TRIO
Thursday 1 December
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf
 
FUZZ
(Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich)
Friday 17 March 2023
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP
6pm - 9.45pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4
(This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)

Thursday 25 August 2022

Indoors with Robert Sotelo

 


Robert Sotelo has an immense new album entitled 'Indoors' coming out digitally through Upset The Rhythm on September 16th, a synth-bleached collection of lean pop potions and hillsides of emotion. Technically a sister album to his recent 'Celebrant', 'Indoors' has more life about it than a simple companion piece. Hugely reflective bops that cascaded into being during The Great Reset's life eclipse.

Check out 'Caught In A Shape' out today on all digital zones and premiered now by Raven Sings The Blues

 

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Thursday 18 August 2022

Tara Clerkin Trio in London this December!


It’s our great pleasure to announce that Tara Clerkin Trio will be performing for us this December on what will be Upset The Rhythm’s 19th birthday!


Upset The Rhythm presents…


TARA CLERKIN TRIO
Thursday 1 December
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf

TARA CLERKIN TRIO are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. Using looped and layered clarinet, vocals, samples, keys & percussion, Tara Clerkin Trio tend to spin you into spacy beguile. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, psychedelia & minimalism, twirling the non-pretentious strands of these threads together into a trippy green winged-cloak, adorning Arthur Russell and dripping in blue jam. Their self titled debut LP was released in 2020 and was a sleeper hit, coming in at 35 in the Wire's top 100 albums of the year and in Bleeps top 10. The effortless drift of ’In Spring’, the trio’s new EP is a distinctly Bristolian affair in its beatdown pacing and smoky atmosphere, which the label themselves compare to the roster orbiting the city’s Planet Records (Flying Saucer Attack, The Third Eye Foundation) in the ‘90s. Subdued but glowing reveries somewhere between Dominique Lawalrée's intimate parlour music and the sort of skewed narco-pop associated with the Laika x Moonshake axis and Cucina Povera.
https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/

Tuesday 9 August 2022

New show for CURRENT AFFAIRS announced!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

CURRENT AFFAIRS
ES

Wednesday 19 October
Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS, UK
7.30pm | £8.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Qafa677add88


CURRENT AFFAIRS are a post punk band from Glasgow, neatly navigating the line between new wave and goth. Formed in 2016 and Comprising Joan (ex-The Royal We/Seconds/Rose McDowall’s band), Seb (ex-Anxiety/Pissy), Josh (The Downs/Kaspar Hauser/ex-Rose McDowall’s band) and Andrew (Shopping/As Ondas). A cassette called Object was released along the way on Comodillo Tapes and in December 2018 the band’s first 7” Breeding Feeling -bw- Draw The Line was put out into the world by Not Unloved, followed in June 2019 by Buckle Up -bw- World’s In Crisis, out via Berlin’s Dot Dot Dot. The band’s recent’ LP Object & Subject’ (on Tough Love) is the accumulation of the band’s output over 3 years, now gathered and synthesised into one convenient disc. “We never agonised over our sound or direction, but worked to our punk strengths and leaned into our pop tendencies collectively. On the cusp of releasing an album and re-imagining our live set up, it feels great to be putting out this overview of what we’ve made so far.”
https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/

ES is Maria Cecilia Tedemalm (vocals), Katy Cotterell (bass), Tamsin M. Leach (drums) and Flora Watters (keyboards). Their 2016 debut EP, Object Relations, released on influential London punk label La Vida Es Un Mus, was described as "mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present" (Jess Skolnik, Bandcamp, Pitchfork). The band has since become a vital presence in London's underground DIY music scene, as well as having toured the UK with the Thurston Moore Group in 2017. ‘Less of Everything’. The title of Es' first full length LP (on Upset The Rhythm) could be interpreted as a manifesto pledge, an outright demand or a purely literal sonic descriptor of the London quartet's glacial form of punk rock music. This tension between intent and interpretation has been a fundamental element of the group's output from their formation. The dynamic between Cotterell's bass and Watters' keyboard is at the heart of Es’ sound: intertwining sub-zero melodies, gothic anarcho-punk influences and some kind of entirely unlocatable aquatic component. When combined with Leach's precise drumming, the outcome is original and immediately recognisable. This provides the perfect backdrop for Tedemalm's relentless, pointed vocal style. While comparable 'cold' sounding groups might affect an impersonal, safer mode of lyrical or vocal detachment, Tedemalm's strategy is to "push the lyrics as far as I can thematically until they become absurd … overly dramatic ... while still being sincere in the feeling they're trying to invoke.
https://esband.bandcamp.com/

Monday 8 August 2022

Phew + Model Home - playing LONDON this October!

 


Upset The Rhythm presents…

PHEW
MODEL HOME

Sunday 16 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jd390b33780a

PHEW was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, OurLikeness, was released on MUTE, again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as an electronic artist. Pitchfork has described her as “Japan’s underground legend.” She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and others. Phew's expansive album ‘Vertical Jamming’ is being released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples on 28 October, a special run on clear vinyl housed in a Studio Tape-Echo sleeve. A small number of advance copies will be on sale at this London show.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music

MODEL HOME is a hyperprolific experimental hip-hop formation from Washington D.C., instigated by rapper NappyNappa and producer Pat Cain. The duo recruits an ever-changing cast of collaborators to give each record a new feel: Model Home can sound like post-modern take on old school hip-hop, glitchy noise or even improvised exploration. The gist of Model Home is that the music pours out like from a faucet, faithfully channeling the chaos of the everyday thought. Model Home’s music would blend right in with a dystopia. The deteriorating sounds of Patrick Cain’s electronics would be impossible to distinguish from the constant construction that is the score of any contemporary city; NappyNappa’s enigmatic missives would be lost in the roar of public service announcements, personalized advertisements, and omnipresent sirens. Built on the edifice of dub sound systems and DIY basement clatter, their sound is made up of slabs of textured noise and decayed vocals. Disciples just released the duo’s sensational new album ‘Saturn In The Basement’ and it’s companion cassette, go seek!
https://modelhomedc.bandcamp.com/