Prolapse in London tomorrow night and Mary Lattimore on Monday!

 

Friday again!   What an amazing pair of shows we've already had on this week, Sarah Davachi last night was phenomenal and Kaputt blew everyone's socks clear off on Tuesday too. Huge thanks to all of you for coming along and helping make these events possible.   Our next concert is a rare vintage of supreme quality! Tomorrow night we have Leicester's finest Prolapse coming to play at OSLO Hackney. Never sounding more NOW, the group's duelling vocal narratives, post-punk slap and motorik rush are infectious and deliriously fun. We're also very lucky to have DIY lynchpins Yeah Yeah Noh playing at this concert too, Leicester in the house! This show will run between 7pm-10pm so pop your early hat on, tickets available in advance and on the door too. See you there!

Then on Monday for an actual bonafide Halloween treat we're immensely gratified to welcome transcendent harpist Mary Lattimore back to our stage. Monday's show will take place at 229 in Great Portland Street and will also feature an evocative bliss-out from Laila Sakini too! Links to tickets below, along with full write-ups for these events and our November commitments with Richard Dawson and Lande Hekt too.   Look out in our upcoming programme for our newly announced Lankum show at the Barbican next May too! Very exciting!   Thanks for reading.

Upset The Rhythm presents... PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3   PROLAPSE originally formed in Leicester in the early 1990s and earned a cult following for their chaotic live sets, and tense and repetitious songs like Flex and Tina This Is Matthew Stone. They feature duelling vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, who play out an intense soap opera over a ferocious triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythm section. Their releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar, as well as recording four Peel sessions. The band has received critical acclaim, including singles of the week on the Radio 1 evening session and NME. They have also toured and shared bills with a diverse array of bands, including Stereolab, Sebadoh, Arab Strap and Sonic Youth. Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus described Prolapse as the best band of the weekend at Reading Festival.  After a long hiatus, the band reformed in 2015 and occasionally play live dates. This short UK tour offers a rare chance to experience the Prolapse live show. Two of the band’s Peel sessions have recently been released on the Precious Recordings of London label and Pointless Walks to Dismal Places is re-issued as a double gatefold LP on Optic Nerve Records in July. https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/ YEAH YEAH NOH are an unpop group of some repute, long trading quietly in a melange of noise and ideas that defies categorisation. It’s DIY pop. It’s post-punk. It’s ‘calor gas psychedelia’. Feel the effect as their guitar pedals and secondhand synthesizer play unexpected melodies in your mind. As they relay their stories of consequence and coincidence and mid-air women. John Peel favourites and veterans of three classic BBC sessions back in the day, Yeah Yeah Noh are now championed by Radio 6 Music where Marc Riley and Gideon Coe have twice let them loose in the studio. https://yeahyeahnoh.bandcamp.com/

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/

Upset The Rhythm presents… Richard Dawson - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by Adam Buxton Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ set) Record signing Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370 To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' via Weird World on Nov 18, Richard Dawson presents a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track, a sprawling mood piece entitled 'The Hermit' that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld. Directed by Bristol filmmaker James Hankins and shot across South-West England in summer 2022, the short film will be shown at several cinemas and art spaces across the UK in the week leading up to the album release, with Q & A sessions after each screening. This event offers the first opportunity to hear music from 'The Ruby Cord'. 'The Ruby Cord' is the final part of a trilogy that started with the pre-medieval world of 'Peasant', was brought back to the present day with '2020' and - possibly - concludes in the future with Dawson’s seventh studio album. After recent collaborations with Finnish metal innovators Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, this is a return to Dawson’s own world with seven tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. This special event will feature the premiere screening of the 40 minute film that accompanies 'The Hermit' followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton.   https://richarddawson.ffm.to/thehermit-yt

Upset The Rhythm presents…   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 LANDE HEKT’s voice in music is one that’s socially aware yet often introspective, drawing awareness to serious issues but at the same time baring her soul. Much of Hekt’s compositions act as a personal diary of what’s going on in her life at any given time. This is evident in her discography with Muncie Girls, the band which she formed in her hometown of Exeter as a teenager and have released two critically acclaimed albums to date. This knack of combining her own experiences and feelings whilst highlighting larger socio-economic issues has carried through to her more contemplative solo material, which began life in an EP ‘Gigantic Disappointment’, self-released in 2019. Lande Hekt’s debut album Going to Hell was released in 2021 and was placed in Stereogum’s Album of the Week, Bandcamp’s Album of the Day, and one of AV Club’s ‘17 albums we can’t wait to hear’. The album is a personal and confessional account of Hekt coming out as gay and DIY Magazine called it “A celebration of personal freedom”. Going to Hell came out on queer and trans run DIY label, Get Better Records and gained Lande Hekt a following for her introspective and journal-style lyrics, political themes and catchy, guitar-driven indie rock. New 7” single ‘Romantic’ - a song about struggling to fit in, feeling down and finding comfort in romance - is out now on Emotional Response. https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/ JADE HAIRPINS is the pop-indie project of Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up. Their debut LP “Harmony Avenue” (Merge Records) is a whirlwind touch of fizzing synths, Talking Heads-esque guitar interplay set to long melodic vocals and dancey drums. The band live has the added strengths of Tamsin (Es) and Jack Goldstein bringing the songs to life. https://jadehairpins.bandcamp.com/

Wishing you a happy halloween! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3 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   RICHARD DAWSON - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ RICHARD DAWSON and director JAMES HANKINS hosted by ADAM BUXTON JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN (DJ set) Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370   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 MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 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 | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   LANKUM Thursday 4 May Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rb942e0b726d

Lankum - London concert at the Barbican next May!

 

Well worth the wait! Lankum are finally playing at the Barbican next May, tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am FYI!


Produced by Upset The Rhythm in association with the Barbican...

LANKUM
Thursday 4 May
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £20-25 | Tickets (on sale Friday at 10am):  https://link.dice.fm/rb942e0b726d

Lankum have gained worldwide acclaim for their engrossing albums and captivating, often euphoric live performances. Their last album “The Livelong Day”, further developed their psychedelic take on folk music, and cemented their reputation as one of the most unique and talked about groups to emerge from Ireland in decades.

Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people. After a 3 year hiatus, Lankum are finally back for a special London appearance at The Barbican, cannot wait!

http://lankumdublin.com/

 

 

Upcoming London shows for Kaputt, Sarah Davachi and Prolapse next week!

 

Afternoon all!   Huge thanks to everyone for coming out this last week to see Jake Xerxes Fussell, Midwife, Phew, Model Home, Current Affairs and Liiek. What a treat, October is certainly proving itself entertaining!   Next week is pretty looking lively too, we have a storming concert on Tuesday at The Shacklewell Arms with Glasgow post-punks Kaputt, solo-drum and vocal giddiness from Charlène Darling and tonal-rippers Shake Chain too!   Then on Thursday we're thrilled to host our first event at Grand Junction (in Little Venice) with an atmos-soaked evening in the company of Sarah Davachi and Anton Lukoszevieze. Anton will open proceedings with a solo cello set, before being joined by Sarah on electronics. Sarah will then raise the roof with a solo organ performance that looks set to cascade into majestic, unfolding new dimensions.

The following Saturday (October 29th) sees us close out the week in style with one of our favourite bands Prolapse! Never sounding more now, the group's whirling vocal narratives and motorik groove are fully engaging and deliriously fun. We're also very lucky to have DIY lynchpins Yeah Yeah Noh playing at this concert too, not one to miss!   Carry on reading for all the particulars on those exemplary events, plus our full listing for our Halloween show (Oct 31st) with Mary Lattimore and Laila Sakini and our forthcoming film premiere with Richard Dawson in November too!   One final thing of note, this week we also announced an intimate show for Eric Chenaux at West Hampstead Arts Club on Dec 9th, well worth getting tickets for that one sooner rather than (not) later.

Upset The Rhythm presents… KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada KAPUTT are a completely, utterly, broken, post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland coming to you via Upset the Rhythm. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Once described as “Like SesameStreet”, the group continues to strive forward and prove this statement correct. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ CHARLÈNE DARLING lives in Paris and makes off-kilter, shimmering chanson post-punk that connects the dots between the feminist troubadours of Agnès Varda’s L’Une Chante, L’Autre Pas, Thai molam music, The Raincoats and the way Cate Le Bon slides between bucolic melody and clanging post-punk. Her debut album, Saint-Guidon, was one of 2019’s buried treasures! When entering the funny world of Charlène Darling, you will first notice that nothing is really square yet everything seems at its right place. Her solo set (presented here) is all about love, rhythm and voice, a frontal topic and a minimalist setup - drum and vocals - that leads to a surprisingly full and energetic sound. https://charlenedarling.bandcamp.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. Look out for their debut album on Upset The Rhythm later this year. https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/shakechain.shtml

Upset The Rhythm presents… SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE Thursday 27 October Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/aaa27bd3c37b SARAH DAVACHI’s work as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation.  Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.  Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage with artists such as Grouper, the London Contemporary Orchestra, William Basinski, Oren Ambarchi, Ariel Kalma, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Donald Buchla, Alessandro Cortini, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors and filmmaker Paul Clipson.  Between 2007 and 2017, Davachi also had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter and content developer of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments.  She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), OBORO (Montréal, Canada), MESS (Melbourne, Australia), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, Canada).    Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA – where she works on the aesthetic phenomenology of musical instruments and timbre in popular, experimental, and early music – and is based in Los Angeles, California. Davachi’s new album ‘Two Sisters’ will be released through her own Late Music imprint on September 9th. For this concert Sarah will be joined by Anton for a short version of ‘In The Grand Luxe Hall’ for amplified cello and electronics, she will also perform a longer solo organ set too. https://www.sarahdavachi.com/ ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE, plays the cello, interdisciplinary artist, composer, founder/director of Apartment House. Many collaborations over time - David Behrman, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Jim O’Rourke, Elaine Mitchener, Jennifer Walshe, Merce Cunningham Dance Company. www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk

Upset The Rhythm presents... PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3   PROLAPSE originally formed in Leicester in the early 1990s and earned a cult following for their chaotic live sets, and tense and repetitious songs like Flex and Tina This Is Matthew Stone. They feature duelling vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, who play out an intense soap opera over a ferocious triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythm section. Their releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar, as well as recording four Peel sessions. The band has received critical acclaim, including singles of the week on the Radio 1 evening session and NME. They have also toured and shared bills with a diverse array of bands, including Stereolab, Sebadoh, Arab Strap and Sonic Youth. Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus described Prolapse as the best band of the weekend at Reading Festival.  After a long hiatus, the band reformed in 2015 and occasionally play live dates. This short UK tour offers a rare chance to experience the Prolapse live show. Two of the band’s Peel sessions have recently been released on the Precious Recordings of London label and Pointless Walks to Dismal Places is re-issued as a double gatefold LP on Optic Nerve Records in July. https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/ YEAH YEAH NOH are an unpop group of some repute, long trading quietly in a melange of noise and ideas that defies categorisation. It’s DIY pop. It’s post-punk. It’s ‘calor gas psychedelia’. Feel the effect as their guitar pedals and secondhand synthesizer play unexpected melodies in your mind. As they relay their stories of consequence and coincidence and mid-air women. John Peel favourites and veterans of three classic BBC sessions back in the day, Yeah Yeah Noh are now championed by Radio 6 Music where Marc Riley and Gideon Coe have twice let them loose in the studio. https://yeahyeahnoh.bandcamp.com/

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/

Upset The Rhythm presents… Richard Dawson - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by Adam Buxton Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ set) Record signing Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370 To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' via Weird World on Nov 18, Richard Dawson presents a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track, a sprawling mood piece entitled 'The Hermit' that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld. Directed by Bristol filmmaker James Hankins and shot across South-West England in summer 2022, the short film will be shown at several cinemas and art spaces across the UK in the week leading up to the album release, with Q & A sessions after each screening. This event offers the first opportunity to hear music from 'The Ruby Cord'. 'The Ruby Cord' is the final part of a trilogy that started with the pre-medieval world of 'Peasant', was brought back to the present day with '2020' and - possibly - concludes in the future with Dawson’s seventh studio album. After recent collaborations with Finnish metal innovators Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, this is a return to Dawson’s own world with seven tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. This special event will feature the premiere screening of the 40 minute film that accompanies 'The Hermit' followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton.   https://richarddawson.ffm.to/thehermit-yt

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

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE 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 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   RICHARD DAWSON - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ RICHARD DAWSON and director JAMES HANKINS hosted by ADAM BUXTON JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN (DJ set) Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370   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 MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 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)

Eric Chenaux is coming to London this December!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ERIC CHENAUX
Friday 9th December
West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6

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’s new album comes out this February and is his most immaculate and pristine. 'Say Laura' perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and revelling in throughout the past decade: his gently unhinged juxtaposition of resplendently smooth, seductively assured singing and puckish, thoroughly destabilized guitar could come from no other musician. The five wandering, wondering ballads on 'Say Laura' bring Chenaux’s semi-improvised but keenly intentional songwriting to its fullest, clearest, warmest and coolest articulation; uncompromising and generous, hyper-specific and loose, spartan and luxurious, elemental and ornate.

http://ericchenaux.com/

Shake Chain - 'Internet'

 

“Don’t put that on the internet
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Don’t put that on the internet
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”!

The most excellent Post-Trash just premiered Shake Chain’s palpitating new single ‘Internet’ today, out everywhere in the verdant digital realm tomorrow! The irony weighs heavy. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Enjoy!!
x

SHAKE CHAIN - 'Internet'

October shows!

 

Hello everyone!   We trust you're all enjoying Autumn as it falls upon us like golden leaves. Have your pumpkins grown nice and substantial yet? We're as busy as  squirrels right now with lots of Upset The Rhythm events cued up for you this October. Today we're sharing listings today for many of them including Phew and Model Home next week at The Lexington plus upcoming concerts from Midwife, Liiek, Current Affairs, Kaputt and Sarah Davachi! Read on for a comprehensive overview of all things afoot during the coming weeks. Please note that our Jake Xerxes Fussell show on Oct 14th is now completely sold out.   This week we also announced a film premiere with Richard Dawson at The Rio for Nov 12. To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' (via Weird World on Nov 18), Richard will be sharing a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track 'The Hermit', a sprawling mood piece that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld.

This special event will feature the first ever screening of the 40 minute film, followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton. We're overjoyed to have Jennifer Lucy Allan DJing at this event too.   Tickets are flying already so well worth getting some asap.

Right, a little bit of UTR label news for you too. 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 here 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!

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/

Upset The Rhythm presents… MIDWIFE EUAN ALEXANDER MILLAR-MCMEEKEN Tuesday 18 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/547791 MIDWIFE is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis.  Midwife’s third full length record, ‘Luminol’ (released last year by The Flenser), was written and produced during quarantine. Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. Midwife is interested in profound truth - turning trial and tribulation into sources of light. ‘Luminol’ navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, confinement and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent field of ambient, drone and shoegaze, sometimes flecked with more conventionally heavy metals. Johnston’s ghostly voice is always central, often working over the same phrases with mantra-like focus. https://midwifemusic.com/ EUAN ALEXANDER MILLAR-MCMEEKEN is a Scottish musician based in London whose work explores themes of permanence and impermanence, loss and fragility. His music can be found in many guises including The Kays Lavelle, glacis and Graveyard Tapes.   His instrumental work has been described as “akin to that found on sets by Nils Frahm, Dustin O’Halloran and Alex Kozobolis” with “the extreme simplicity...speaking directly to the heart, in an amazing mix of fragility and power of expression”. His vocal work has drawn comparisons to Atlas Sound and Mount Eerie and has been described as “music that embraces, repels, challenges, makes you think, deeply moves you and also knows how to give you the most beautiful moments imaginable”. https://gtapes.bandcamp.com/

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 band from Glasgow marrying 80s pop sensibilities with ferocious post-punk, neatly navigating the line between new wave and goth. Singer and keyboardist Joan Sweeney (Aggi Doom, the Royal We) tempts you in with catchy melodies and powerful lyricism.  Drummer Andrew Milk (Shopping, Pink Pound) provides nonchalant backing vocals and a solid rhythm section with driving bass from newest band member Gemma Fleet (The Wharves, Order of the Toad). Sebastian Ymai (Comidllo Tapes, Pissy) completes the ensemble, with intricate chorus laden guitar that will lift you off your feet. 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. A debut LP proper is being readied currently! 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/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LIIEK MILTOWN BADABOUM Thursday 20 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Xc2f14f7e2f0 LIIEK are an austere and choppy post-punk trio from Berlin playing bass-driven songs ala Gang Of Four, Pylon and Delta 5. The songs may coalesce around the funk-and-dub-informed low-end, however these grooves contrast with angular guitar lines and shouted, staccato vocals, both of which remind us of early Devo. Their latest album ‘Deep Pore’ came out earlier this year on Adagio830. Think Q And Not U meets Wire featuering members of Peeps of Pigeon, Ostseetraum, Aus etc. https://liiek.bandcamp.com/ MILTOWN comes out of the buzzing underground of Denmark’s “little brother” city Aarhus. Inspired by the never-ending stream of bands from Melbourne and oddballs from the American Midwest Miltown plays garage punk that is both abrasive, aggressive, and catchy and accessible at the same time. Their live performances are captivating and chaotic, a rare display of both anger and frailty that leaves you puzzled, thrilled and anxious to start a band of your own. This fall sees the band embark on their first European tour following the release of their first single ‘Respect for authorities’. https://miltownband.bandcamp.com/releases   BADABOUM are a french all-star girl group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and Solene (Dudu geva) and is affiliated to the famous Grande Triple Alliance de l’Est posse (Ah Kraken, Feeling of love, Scorpion Violente). They play a form of post punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and Malaria adding their own reverbed idiosyncracies and eerie organ lines, chanting in indecipherable italian, mock german and plain french. Taking turns on drums and blowing through severed reeds, Badaboum will bring you as much joy as chaos and spookiness. https://bancampbadaboum.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada KAPUTT are a completely, utterly, broken, post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland coming to you via Upset the Rhythm. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Once described as “Like SesameStreet”, the group continues to strive forward and prove this statement correct. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ CHARLÈNE DARLING lives in Paris and makes off-kilter, shimmering chanson post-punk that connects the dots between the feminist troubadours of Agnès Varda’s L’Une Chante, L’Autre Pas, Thai molam music, The Raincoats and the way Cate Le Bon slides between bucolic melody and clanging post-punk. Her debut album, Saint-Guidon, was one of 2019’s buried treasures! When entering the funny world of Charlène Darling, you will first notice that nothing is really square yet everything seems at its right place. Her solo set (presented here) is all about love, rhythm and voice, a frontal topic and a minimalist setup - drum and vocals - that leads to a surprisingly full and energetic sound. https://charlenedarling.bandcamp.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. Look out for their debut album on Upset The Rhythm later this year. https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/shakechain.shtml

Upset The Rhythm presents… SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE Thursday 27 October Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/aaa27bd3c37b SARAH DAVACHI’s work as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation.  Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant.  Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage with artists such as Grouper, the London Contemporary Orchestra, William Basinski, Oren Ambarchi, Ariel Kalma, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Donald Buchla, Alessandro Cortini, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors and filmmaker Paul Clipson.  Between 2007 and 2017, Davachi also had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter and content developer of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments.  She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), OBORO (Montréal, Canada), MESS (Melbourne, Australia), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, Canada).    Davachi is currently a doctoral candidate in musicology at UCLA – where she works on the aesthetic phenomenology of musical instruments and timbre in popular, experimental, and early music – and is based in Los Angeles, California. Davachi’s new album ‘Two Sisters’ will be released through her own Late Music imprint on September 9th. For this concert Sarah will be joined by Anton for a short version of ‘In The Grand Luxe Hall’ for amplified cello and electronics, she will also perform a longer solo organ set too. https://www.sarahdavachi.com/ ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE, plays the cello, interdisciplinary artist, composer, founder/director of Apartment House. Many collaborations over time - David Behrman, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Jim O’Rourke, Elaine Mitchener, Jennifer Walshe, Merce Cunningham Dance Company. www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk

All the best with the best things! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL ANNA MCLUCKIE  Friday 14 October St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA 7.30pm | SOLD OUT 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://www.wegottickets.com/event/547791   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 BADABOUM Thursday 20 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Xc2f14f7e2f0    KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE 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 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   RICHARD DAWSON - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ RICHARD DAWSON and director JAMES HANKINS hosted by ADAM BUXTON JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN (DJ set) Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370   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 MXLX 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)