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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
HOUSE OF ALL DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN Thursday 18 May The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/lc724814be5a HOUSE OF ALL is a Fall Family Continuum. Last Summer, five key members of The Fall got back together to record an album: Martin Bramah, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft and Pete Greenway. This project has been dubbed: HOUSE OF ALL. Recorded over three days during the Solstice, the session was a great success and the resulting self-titled debut album will be coming out in May 2023. Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group and likewise the longest survivor of the original line-up. Yet while The Fall was later famous for their legendary productivity, Bramah often went great spans of time between releases, releasing fewer albums in thirty-five years (under any guise) than he has in the last seven with Blue Orchids - who already have a fantastic new album in the can. Bramah has joined forces with four other mighty Fall alumni: Steve Hanley, The Fall's longest-serving bassist, as well as his brother Paul Hanley, who drummed on what may be the best run of Fall records, from "Grotesque" to "Bend Sinister". The three have also played together as Factory Star, for a brief period. Joining them are two surprise members - drummer Simon Wolstencroft, who joined the Fall around the time Paul left, and more surprisingly, guitarist Pete Greenway, The Fall's long-serving and final guitarist who has, to our knowledge, never played with the other four before. And the album? Recorded in a burst of intense creativity, we won't tempt to propagandise you, the album speaks or itself, but it wouldn't be a false boast to say that it stands with much of the best Fall or Blue Orchids music, displaying an energy and psychic impulse all its own, each member playing as sharply and with as much drive as ever, around manic motorik grooves and a shocking lack of 'compromise'. https://www.facebook.com/fallfamilycontinuum DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN has after a string of fine albums with those C86 indie-pop pioneers The Wolfhounds, an enticing run on the Too Pure label in the experimentalist band Moonshake, as well as collaborations with PJ Harvey and members of Stereolab, now begun his solo career in earnest, releasing a pair of daring albums with a mélange of what's been called "mutant Eastern, West African, folk, blues and post-punk influences. https://davidlancecallahan.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
EDITRIX BEIGE PALACE ES Sunday 4 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/de59bbb09db5 EDITRIX is Steve Cameron, Josh Daniel, and Wendy Eisenberg. Steve plays bass, Josh plays drums, Wendy plays guitar and sings. Editrix came to life around 2018. Eisenberg had honed their skills as a jazz guitarist, but was drawn to noise after growing frustrated by a limited area of study. Inspired by the Northeast's thriving DIY scene, they moved from the Washington, D.C. suburbs to Boston. Editrix is as if you took music that is borderline classical in its crystalline perfection and obsessive attention to detail, and then played it through Kurt Cobain's Rat pedal, with not a shred of piety or decorum. From the first slide guitar notes of the opening title track, this is doom-laden nihilism lovingly decorated in heart stickers. It is caring, pretending not to care, resisting the emotive signals so abused in mainstream, which is what tells you that it really does care. It is the synthesis of the dialectic and the clarion call of the proletarian revolution. ‘Editrix II’ is the group’s new album, a record that’s impossible not to like. Do not expect calcified recreations of pre-existing bands, even the ones Editrix loves. But if pop is anything to do with melody, well, prepare yourself to be singing along by the second line of each track. If it's defined by rhythm, warn your head not to get caught napping because it will shortly be banging. And if for you pop equals a full-on full-frequency sonic sickness, this one grabs your ears by the ear lapels and never lets go. This is haiku rock, its minimal lyrics compressing novels into a few syllables. It sounds like it came to their heads like bolt of lightning. https://editrix.bandcamp.com/album/editrix-ii-editrix-goes-to-hell BEIGE PALACE is a minimalist
rock trio from Leeds, featuring Anthony Bedford (drums/vocals), Kelly
Bishop (keys/violin/vocals) and Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe (guitar/vocals).
Incubated at the noise-rock-melting-pot communal space CHUNK, and having
toured with the likes of Shellac and Mclusky, the band tends to adopt a
subtler approach than many of their peers. Drawing as much inspiration
from Ivor Cutler and Bjork as from Deerhoof and This Heat, they have
been described as "beautifully unnerving" by Kerrang! and "stalking,
ominous" by Pink Wafer. Since the release of 'Leg' in April 2019, Beige
Palace have been dormant more often than not, but a second LP 'Making
Sounds For Andy' is due for release via Human Worth in 2023.
https://beigepalace.bandcamp.com/ ES returned this month with
their incredible new EP ‘Fantasy’ (Upset The Rhythm). A four-track
contact-high anxiety amid fact and facsimile, the new release attempts
to define a sound that still resonates in an increasingly confused
public theatre, where cerebral dreams manifest in corrupt fascination.
Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later, disco-inspired releases from
PIL, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s established
disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter, poppy, and
danceable tones. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and
self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation.
https://esband.bandcamp.com/ * Upset The Rhythm & Cafe OTO presents… WENDY EISENBERG Gg Monday 5 June Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j7e7e795e1fb WENDY EISENBERG is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, Ba Da Bing, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Dear Life. They also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review. https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ Gg improvise with guitar, drums and cello. Featuring members of caroline. |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… XIU XIU ME LOST ME Wednesday 7 June EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U47253457cae XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu's music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners. This March the band return with a devastatingly macabre, appropriately cacophonous new album, titled Ignore Grief, due for release on Polyvinyl. The current iteration of Xiu Xiu includes existing members Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo, now joined by old friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo, Gleaming Spires). ‘Ignore Gried’ is an album of halves. Angela Seo sings on half of the record. Jamie Stewart sings on half of the record. Half of the songs are experimental industrial. Half of the songs are experimental modern classical. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary. Xiu Xiu has spent twenty years grappling with how to process, to be empathetic towards, to disobey and to reorganize horror; there is no other word for it other than horror. http://www.xiuxiu.org/ ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise". Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album ‘RPG’ will be released on July 7th via Upset The Rhythm. https://www.melostme.com/ |