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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
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 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/ MXLX is prolific Bristol-based musician Matthew Loveridge. Check out his epic back catalogue of recordings on bandcamp, including recent works ‘God Peasant’ and ‘Nebula Rasa’. https://kindarad.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
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 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/ [something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation. Fragments of found text and gestural electro-acoustics weave through spectral guitar textures. Loops of sound and language collide. https://somethingshappening.bandcamp.com/album/something-like-that |