Float like a jellyfish, sting like a jellyfish! Robert Sotelo’s new digital album ‘Indoors’ is out now. We’re sharing the video for the title track today too. ‘Indoors’ is a synth-bleached collection of lean pop potions and hillsides of emotion. Technically a sister album to his recent 'Celebrant' LP, '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. Listen now everywhere!
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OK, OK, OK, RU OK? Some fantastic news to share with you today! Upset The Rhythm will be releasing Shake Chain’s debut album ‘Snake Chain’ in November. Demolishing audiences and expectations alike, Shake Chain are a London quartet who’ve set their compass to unruly, lyric-bespattered headbangs of radiant abandon. There’s a nervy propulsion of bass lines at play, twitchy guitars that jolt and tack-sharp drums, all overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Raven Sings The Blues just premiered the group’s first single from the album (‘RU’ out on all digital platforms today) describing vocalist Kate Mahony as “working the atonal tension like few in her field, thrumming the nerve of the universe like Yoko Ono covering X-Ray Spex.”
Shake Chain’s songs are populated with cowboys, cherry-pickers, content-addicts, private investments, a careless driver called Mike, architects and by much lamentation at the state of our confusing existence. The band are truly cathartic and absurd, humorous and deadly serious, yet always inspired. It’s this tightrope walk which makes their album ‘Snake Chain’ such a dauntingly brilliant listen. ‘Snake Chain’ will be released on November 18th by Upset The Rhythm, a limited 180g red/clear splatter vinyl version is available to pre-order now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
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Delighted to announce this spooktacular Halloween concert with MARY LATTIMORE + LAILA SAKINI at 229! Let's celebrate the thinning of the veil!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
MARY LATTIMORE
LAILA SAKINI
Monday 31 October
229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK
7pm | £12 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/d570d6dcc32e
MARY LATTIMORE is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa. Her debut solo record for Ghostly International, 'At The Dam', was recorded during stops along a road trip across America and released in March 2016. The next year, she compiled sounds from her past life in Philadelphia for a cassette tape titled 'Collected Pieces'. Released in May 2018 to acclaim from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker Lattimore's next album 'Hundreds of Days' presented an expression of mystified gratitude for the natural world. She capped off the banner year — which included international tours with Iceage and Kurt Vile, a performance with Harold Budd at Big Ears Festival, and an appearance on Billboard’s New Age charts — with two collaborative albums released on Three Lobed Recordings, one with Meg Baird and the other with Mac McCaughan.
Lattimore's most recent album 'Silver Ladders' (out 2020 on Ghostly), saw her arriving at her most confident work to date, expanding her style of instrumental storytelling with the help of producer and guitarist Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3). Recorded in Halstead’s studio near an old English surftown, the songs on 'Silver Ladders' reflect Lattimore’s vivid memories against the gloom and glimmer of the ocean.
https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/
LAILA SAKINI works with piano, voice, guitar, found sound, electronics and silence to create dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses. Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP) and her 2017 collaboration with poet Lucy Van, Figures (EP). Laila has performed at Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, Listen! festival, The White Hotel, Meakusma x Arkaoda, Kings Place, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho among others.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
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 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
ANNA MCLUCKIE 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/ ANNA MCLCUKIE is a nu-folk
singer and Clarsach player from Scotland. Performing in places around
the world from Rockwood Music Hall NYC, a concert series in Russia, to
playing wee house shows and sessions. Anna's debut album 'Today,
Everyday' was released independently last year. Lyrically these songs
carry a storybook quality which when met with the complex interweaving
layers of harmony leave us with an album of contemporary folklore. http://annamcluckie.co.uk/ |
 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/ |
