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 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/ |