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 Upset The Rhythm presents… DEERHOOF YAMA WARASHI Monday 21 August Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, N1C 4DP 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ef612b08c524 DEERHOOF have continually quested for daring storytelling and radical sounds over their nineteen boundless albums, as experimental as they are pop. Deerhoof’s most recent album ‘Miracle Level’(out now on Joyful Noise) is also their first to be recorded and mixed in a recording studio. Not because they had tired of their anarchic sound, but because they wanted to open their secretive DIY comfort zone up to something new and uncomfortable. Our research has not turned up many examples of a DIY band waiting 28 years to entrust their record to a proper producer. ‘Miracle-Level’ is an avant-garde, anti-fascist carnival, its spicy surprises whispered conspiratorially, and lit by candlelight. Sit down, let me tell you a story celebrating the infinite small wonders of existence…the miracles that spontaneously present themselves when we’re not distracted by the tribalism and manipulation of our death-driven masters…the miracles that Artificial Intelligence will never replicate. Deerhoof speak in a secret code in which hooks abound, genre is nonexistent, and magic ever awaits us. https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/ YAMA WARASHI is the vision of Yoshino Shigihara, a Japanese musician and visual artist whose past projects include cult favourites Zun Zun Egui (Bella Union), of which she was a co-founder. Inspired by Japanese folk dance, free jazz and tribal African music, and heavily saturated in psychedelia, Yama Warashi’s songs are lyrically outlandish and charming, melodically addictive and mythical; the band name translates from Shigihara’s native tongue as “small childlike mountain spirit”. Yoshino’s new album ‘Crispy Moon’ displays a bigger sound and an understated but self-assured grandeur. You can hear it in the adorning strings that underpin Dou Dou Meguri’s outré pop, or Makai No Keiyaku’s driving cacophony of Afrobeat rhythms and chiming synth-pop that stomps right through the middle of the record. https://yamawarashi.bandcamp.com |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… WATER MACHINE LASH GROSS MISCONDUCT Tuesday 5 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Lf7063042bcf WATER MACHINE is an office romance between Hando Morice (they/them), Flore de Hoog (she/her), Jimmy Gage (he/him) and Goda Ilgauskaitė (she/her). An unassuming supergroup formed out of Glasgow institutions including Goth GF, Passion Pusher, Brenda and Soursob, their sound careens between punk, country and alt-rock underpinned by the unique quality they call “Raw Liquid Power”. Following last year’s self-titled demo tape on Gold Mold Records, the four-piece will release their highly-anticipated first studio effort ‘Raw Liquid Power’ on Upset The Rhythm on August 4th. The EP opens with a menacing, modulating synth melody. Gage’s guitar enters with a mighty bend before breaking into the chugging rhythm of ‘Water Machine Pt. 2’. This timely reminder to refill your water bottle - “don’t be late, hydrate!” less a wellness mantra than a threat - builds to a spacey outro with flashes of the art-punk weirdness of Suburban Lawns. ‘Stilettos’ marches on indignantly with a spiky riff punctuated by Ilgauskaitė’s cowbells. Staccato talk-singing tells a playful tale of stray cats following you home, but belies a darker subtext as the breakdown gives way to paranoid duelling guitars evoking The Fire Engines. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/raw-liquid-power LASH are a new group featuring members of Es, Suep, Findom & Sealings. New Wave with a psychodynamic edge; Neuro-Romantic if you will. Think Pylon, AC Marias, Pink Industry style lamented & mutated pop music. GROSS MISCONDUCT are a conceptually foggy, bureaucratically sound landfill punk band from South London. Featuring members of Killjoys, MILKY, Strong Arm and Surplus. FFO Exit Order, The Cribs, Be Your Own Pet and corporate telephone hold music. Fresh off probation, mandatory training completed and ready for synergy. Check out their new EP and demo now! https://grossmisconduct69.bandcamp.com |
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PHIL TYLER & SARAH HILL MEN DIAMLER Monday 25 September West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London, NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £7.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/q7a22698549a PHIL TYLER & SARAH HILL met in Newcastle where they sang Sacred Harp and songs in folk clubs. After a while decided to record an album together, but not long after this, after one sole gig with Alasdair Roberts, Sarah's work took her to live in Brighton. Fortunately their far-flung locations didn’t disrupt the musical partnership too much and last year saw their stunning album ‘What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax’ released on Ferric Mordant. Their songs are primarily traditional, learned from versions by folk legends like Shirley Collins, Bob Copper, Martin Carthy and Peggy Seeger, although two - Sweet Lemney and Golden Lads – have tunes by Tyler, and the latter words from their mutual friend Jo Ellis. The album was recorded by Newcastle artist/producer Phil Begg in an unadorned, simple manner that captures the warmth of Hill and Tyler’s voices, the interplay of their duets and Tyler’s fine guitar, banjo and ukulele playing. https://philtylersarahhill.bandcamp.com/album/what-we-thought-was-a-lake-was-a-field-of-flax MEN DIAMLER is a singer from deepest darkest Wales, who began unravelling the dark swab of provincial England through song in 2005. A serial songwriter and performer of some repute, he has cited Jacques Brel, Townes Van Zandt, Alan Vega and Iggy Pop as influences. He recorded sessions for Marc Riley's 6 Music Show, Radio X and Resonance FM. Men Diamler's performances are now very rare since he has taken up a more lucrative career in traffic counting. www.bandcamp.com/mendiamler |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… THE SMASHING TIMES JOWE HEAD SILK CUTS Thursday 28 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i167d908f749 THE SMASHING TIMES are a psychedelic twee freakbeat group from a Baltimore basement. Instruments played by humans, bare feet touching the ground. Wrinkled button downs, sweaters filled with holes, music audibly and sometimes visibly made by humans. Can you change the strings on your guitar? Maybe, can you buy me dinner? Lock up your Rickenbackers, Thee Jasmine Monk is coming to town, can they stay on your couch? Recent album ‘Bloom’ was released by Meritorio Records, featuring fractious, chiming riffs and Dan Treacy meets Stephen Pastel style vocals and an impressive collection of genuinely memorable tracks. The Smashing Times’ new album will be coming out on K Records soon. https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com JOWE HEAD is a musician and artist from the Midlands of England, now living in Hackney, in east London. He started his musical career in his home town of Solihull with various school friends in 1972, a project that came to be known as Swell Maps. This group emerged in the late 1970s, are now known as pioneers of what is now referred to as the Alternative Rock or Post-Punk scene. They set up their own independent record label, and mixed Punk Rock with experimental and psychedelic sounds. Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but dramatic career, that led to them topping the UK independent charts, and influencing bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Blur. When they broke up, Jowe joined Television Personalities. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe making more influential records, touring Europe regularly, and playing in Japan and the USA. For this show Jowe is presenting his new trio the Infernal Trinity. https://jowe-head.com/bio SILK CUTS are Exeter's newest C86 influenced indie pop band. Silk Cuts have a new 7" on Freakscene Records (The Computers, The Cut Ups, Spy Versus Spy) this is out in September and was produced by Lucy and Matt Board from Pale Blue Eyes. https://songbox.com/s/silkcuts7 |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… APOSTILLE MARINA ZISPIN Friday 29 September The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High St, London, N16 0PE 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/k7a7aa10dff3 APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’, is released on Night School on September 22nd. https://apostille.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-of-love-and-hate MARINA ZISPIN aka synth pop apparitions Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid have been haunting the shores of Newcastle/London since forming Marina Zispin in the summer of 2018. Together they occupy the infinite twilight space that exists between fantasy and reality. Juxtaposing the sacred and mundane; they transform the selected minutia of their everyday existence into the totems and litanies that comprise their stream of conscious anthems of interdimensional melancholia. Marina Zispin release their debut 12” on Night School in September 2023. https://on.soundcloud.com/WHXL2 |