Chenaux returns to London!

Excellent news! Eric Chenaux has a new album coming out in May called ‘Delights Of My Life’ and he’ll be sharing those highs with London on June 28th, when he heads our way for this new concert!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ERIC CHENAUX
Friday 28 June
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Pbad9db9e326

ERIC CHENAUX is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer and sound sculptor. He has released seven solo albums of experimental song on the Montréal-based imprint Constellation, charting an adventurous and uncompromising path through avant-folk, out-jazz and pop composition, increasingly rooted in a unique and elemental juxtaposition of fried, frazzled, semi-improvised guitar and smooth, clear tenor balladry. He has been called “a musician like no other” by Tiny Mix Tapes; his solo albums praised by The Quietus as “stunningly beautiful, genuinely inimitable, whose reputation will only grow with time.” Gracing the cover of The Wire magazine in 2017, the feature article declared: “Chenaux succeeds in generating an astonishing array of timbres. A singer and songwriter possessed of angelic sweetness and clarity accompanying himself with largely improvised, visceral guitar textures that seem intent on undermining and obscuring his own songs. It’s the need to communicate tussling with the urge to obfuscate; lucidity versus opacity; form against chaos.” 

 

Chenaux’s first album as a singer-songwriter was ‘Dull Lights’, released on Constellation in 2006, and an acclaimed, highly original solo discography has unfolded since then: ‘Sloppy Ground’ (2008); ‘Warm Weather With Ryan Driver’ (2010); ‘Guitar & Voice’ (2012); ‘Skullsplitter’ (2015); ‘Slowly Paradise’ (2018) and ‘Say Laura’ (2022). He has featured on a range of collaborative records issued by other labels through this same span, including Okraïna, Avatar, Grapefruit and Three:four. He has performed and recorded with countless artists, including Ryan Driver, Sandro Perri, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Snow, Han Bennink, Josephine Fosterand many more. Chenaux’s forthcoming album ‘Delights Of My Life’ features Eric with a thee-piece band and will be released in May on Constellation. This new record conveys warm familiarity, shot through with the exuberantly experimental subversion and playful, even mischievous, iconoclasm that continues to mark Chenaux as defiantly, virtuosically, and genially one-of-kind.

https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/

Orange poster!

 

Classic orange Upset The Rhythm poster!
Dates for the diary!
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Earth Ball + Chris Corsano - in Shrewsbury!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

EARTH BALL
CHRIS CORSANO
Friday 24 May
English Bridge Workshop, Abbey Forgate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AD
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Rd34b1015951

EARTH BALL are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. Their inception was serendipitous, emerging out of necessity when Isabel Ford, John Brennan, and Jeremy Van Wyck needed a name for a gig. What began as a pragmatic solution blossomed into an artistically conceived project. Embracing complete improvisation, free expression and a truly psychedelic sound, the group's lineup expands for different projects and now features Kellan Maclaughlin on Guitar and Liam Murphy on Saxophone. Each member brings a diverse musical background, having been part of various bands such as Shearing Pinx, Plan Your Future, Kamikaze Nurse, Eschatons and Psychedelic Dirt. Their individual collaborations with artists like Deerhoof, Raven Chacon, Chris Corsano, William Hooker, and others enrich their collective experience, forging a powerful musical force.

Earth Ball’s first cassette 'Fruiting Bodies', released in 2021 under Misophonia Records, was followed by the self-released album 'Go to Earth.' The creative momentum continued with the digital and cassette release of 'Have One' in 2023. Earth Ball's dynamic presence has reverberated across the west coast of Canada.  The group’s live shows are ecstatic and spontaneous, offering audiences a unique experience at every performance. Notably, their appearance alongside legendary experimental duo Wolf Eyes in August 2023 underscored their standing in the experimental scene. As Earth Ball continues to push the boundaries of improvisation and sonic exploration, they remain a guiding light for those seeking a transcendental musical experience. The group’s upcoming album ‘It’s Yours’ will be released on LP / digital by Upset The Rhythm this May and marks another significant leap forward.
https://earthball.bandcamp.com/ 

CHRIS CORSANO is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990's. Corsano is one of the greatest drummers working today, developing a percussive language of extraordinary amplitude and infinite resources. His collaborations stretch from free jazz greats (Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Paul Flaherty & more) to noise mavens (Jandek, Bill Nace, C Spencer Yeh etc) and pop superstars (Björk). Capable of generating narrative out of permanent ecstasy, Corsano never ceases to be profoundly affirmative and imposing of his language, and being an absolute and charismatic virtuoso, he simultaneously is one of the most noble and generous improvisers of the few last decades.

A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music - a dynamic, spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making: e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metal. In February 2006, Corsano released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia, and Japan. In 2009, Corsano returned focus to his own projects, including a duo with Michael Flower, Vampire Belt (with Bill Nace), Rangda (with Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and his solo work, further expanded in its use of contact microphones and synthesizers. In 2017, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award.

Corsano's dedication to collective improvisation has led to collaborations with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 150 records and 1000 live performances. He's worked with, among others: Paul Dunmall (released by ESP-Disk), Joe McPhee (Roaratorio), Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth), Earth Ball (Upset The Rhythm), Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits), Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City), Merzbow (Family Vineyard), Jessica Rylan (Load Records), John Edwards, Nels Cline, Heather Leigh, Ghédalia Tazartès and Sunburned Hand Of Man.
https://chriscorsano.bandcamp.com/music

Parsnip - Turn to Love [VIDEO]

Don’t turn back! 

Parsnip explode into colour, costume and creativity with their incredible video for new single ‘Turn To Love’. Out today digitally and featured on their forthcoming album ‘Behold’ (out April 26th through Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade). Blooming marvellous effort from the Australian DIY pop quartet!

Slumberland Records showcase!

 

Upset The Rhythm present a Slumberland Records showcase featuring…

BIRDIE
TONY MOLINA
LIGHTHEADED
HANGOVER LOUNGE DJs
Wednesday 24 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £14.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j163b4c82f7b

BIRDIE’s roots go all the way back to 1992 at Saint Etienne live band rehearsals. Debsey Wykes had been in Etienne (and everybody's!) faves Dolly Mixture and was on board as a backing vocalist, while Paul Kelly had been in the equally legendary East Village and was now part of St Etienne's touring band. The pair became fast friends and then a couple, bonding over a love of the sunshine pop and soft rock music of the 60s and 70s, and began spending hours together strategising a new band, eventually forming Birdie in 1994 and releasing the "Spiral Staircase" 7" in 1997.

In the summer of 1998 Birdie recorded their debut album "Some Dusty" with the estimable Brian O'Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). It's a deep and beautiful album, with Paul's melodic, sophisticated arrangements providing the perfect setting for Debsey's sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. Birdie followed up the 1999 release of "Some Dusty" on It Records with a series of essential singles - “Let Her Go," "Such A Sound," and "Sidewalk" -- culminating in the release of their second album "Triple Echo" in 2001. Family life and other artistic pursuits called, and Birdie has only been sporadically active since then. Their brief but perfectly-formed discography has become the stuff of legend, charming savvy pop fans around the world. Summer 2024 will see the long overdue vinyl reissue of "Some Dusty" on US indie label Slumberland Records.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/292344-Birdie-2

TONY MOLINA is a northern Californian native with a restless, multi-faceted musical personality. He got his start playing in hardcore bands, but over time developed two distinct styles that are very far removed from that sound. Initially under the name Ovens, then as a solo artist, he crafts bite-sized chunks of melodic pop that can be broken into two sub-headings: quiet acoustic guitar-led ballads and noisy electric songs that sound like Teenage Fanclub with J Mascis and the Fastbacks' Kurt Bloch spearheading a dual guitar attack. In 2009 Molina released the first music under his own name, the 12-song Embarrassing Times cassette. In 2013, Molina released his second solo album, Dissed and Dismissed, a collection of 12 short and fuzzy tunes that took notes from '90s indie and power pop acts like Weezer, Redd Kross, and Dinosaur Jr. What was intended as a demo caught the attention of fans of melodic guitar pop and hooked two legendary American labels, Matador and Slumberland. The former released the Six Tracks EP later in 2013; the latter signed him and reissued Dissed and Dismissed in 2014.

His next album, 2018's Kill the Lights, came about much more naturally. He worked on some songs with a friend, Jasper Leach, and they decided to make a record out of the demos they had started. Recorded in two studios and a bedroom, the album was again built around Molina's acoustic guitar and winsome pop melodies, but this time featured some folk-rock-ready 12-string electric, a full-band sound, and Leach's keyboards. Molina’s latest album, In the Fade, was released by Summer Shade, an offshoot of Run for Cover, in August of 2022 and was the first of his solo records to contain all the sides of his musical personality under one roof.
https://tonymolina650.bandcamp.com/

LIGHTHEADED from New Jersey have conjured, through some mysterious alchemy, a distinctive flavor of pop that draws as much from 60s Brill Building, garage-pop and folk-pop as it does from the DIY indie explosion of the 80s/early 90s. Their debut EP "Good Good Great!" shows that band core Cynthia and Stephen are clearly students of pop in all its permutations, but they wear their influences lightly - a typical Lightheaded song could have been released in 1966 or 1986, but in fact sounds just right in 2024! Their sound has just right amount of elemental murk, drawing to mind a mythical collab between Phil Spector and Curt Boettcher's Sagittarius, working their way through the Goffin & King songbook. Cynthia's rich vocals are the secret weapon, possessing a depth and swing that can handle with aplomb the sprightliest pop or the tear-jerkingest drama. The group’s debut album titled “Combustible Gems”,  will be released on Slumberland this May!
https://areyoufeelinglightheaded.bandcamp.com/

Empires into Sand

Huge day today! Normil Hawaiians’ first new album in 40 years will be coming out on Upset The Rhythm on May 24th. Titled ‘Empires into Sand’, the record is an incredible patchwork cloak of ideas drawing on ambient drone, motorik impulse, folk idiom and a certain cosmic uncanny. 

 A Windswept album recorded in a windswept Scottish coastal retreat, ‘Empires into Sand’ swims with short wave radio interference and overheard satellite transmissions. These are winding rivers of song, peopled with the displaced, determined, downhearted yet hopeful. Swirling atmospheres, field recordings, tape-looped drums, rapid synth flights and soaring vocals all abound in this echo from the now.  

‘Empires into Sand’ will be released on gatefold LP, CD and digitally on May 24th, it is available to pre-order now from our shop now.

Lead single ‘Exiles’ is released today, exploring the continuous movement of human beings, check out the video for more sublime signs from the firmament.

 

 

Earth Ball - 'It's Yours' album announced!

Arise!

It's time to take on Earth Ball! Earth Ball are a wild ride of an ensemble from Nanaimo (Canada); spontaneous, instinctual and eruptive inside out. When Earth Ball fire up the amps in their basement you can hear the voices of ghosts hum through the speakers. Kellan's hued feedback, Izzy's sturdy basslines, Jer's paperbag guitar tone and rumble pack zaps, Liam's sheets of sound and Brennen's multidirectional drums are expansive, restlessly inventive and truly psychedelic. Their debut LP ‘It’s Yours’ will be coming out on May 17th via Upset The Rhythm. Take a first listen to ‘A Need To Cool Down’ and reframe your brain, all is temporary.

 

 

‘It’s Yours’ is available to pre-order on clear 180g vinyl w/ a hand-painted insert from the band now.

Earth Ball are also touring the UK this May in support of this release with their friend-in-sound Chris Corsano, see you at a show!


EARTH BALL & CHRIS CORSANO - UK TOUR

May 20 - London - Cafe OTO
May 21 - London - Cafe OTO
May 22 - Manchester - White Hotel
May 23 - Bristol - Cube Cinema
May 24 - Shrewsbury - English Bridge Workshop
May 25 - Glasgow - Flying Duck
May 26 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend

May 27 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
May 28 - Nottingham - The Chapel
May 29 - Lewes - Con Club

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The Umbrellas - Live in London this Wednesday!

 

Look out!   On Wednesday night (March 13th) San Francisco’s The Umbrellas will unfurl in London at OSLO Hackney. Bristling with fizzy pop bliss and some poignant lyricism, we’re excited to experience the helter-skelter energy of their new album ‘Fairweather Friend’ (Tough Love / Slumberland) in the thrilling moment.   This concert is a serious indie pop triumvirate with Swansea Sound and Autocamper also treating us to performances. We’re ready to dance ourselves silly, hope you are! Live music from 8pm, tickets on the door from 7.30pm or in advance here.

Lots more on Wednesday's concert to follow, along with full show listings for our forthcoming London events with Mary Lattimore, Luce Mawdsley, Alison Cotton, Stereocilia, House Of All and The Courtesy Group too.   You'll also find new listings for Earth Ball, Chris Corsano, Jeremiah Chiu and Mohammad Syfkhan added to our upcoming programme too, all on sale now!

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE UMBRELLAS SWANSEA SOUND AUTOCAMPER Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   THE UMBRELLAS are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP ‘Fairweather Friend’ goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. It’s a record overflowing with highlights. The candyfloss melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk, and the precision that comes from long months on the road. Taken as a whole ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a bold indie pop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart. https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/the-umbrellas   SWANSEA SOUND are Hue Williams (The Pooh Sticks), Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey (both Talulah Gosh/Heavenly, The Catenary Wires), Bob Collins (The Dentists, The Treasures of Mexico), Ian Button, (Death in Vegas, with Louis Philippe, Pete Astor and Papernut Cambridge). Swansea Sound’s recent album Twentieth Century was released by Skep Wax Records. On this second album of unapologetic indie pop and punk they sing about things like Pete Shelley, vinyl, online shopping and getting older. https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/album/swansea-sound AUTOCAMPER are a four-piece jangle pop band playing scuzzy C86-inspired music. The band’s recent demo EP came out on Discontinuous Innovation Inc (run by Nick from The Umbrellas), they’ve recently played shows with The Orchids, Lande Hekt, The Vaselines and Jeanines. https://autocamper.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE LUCE MAWDSLEY Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb 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. ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ (Ghostly International), Lattimore’s  new LP, speaks not just for its beloved namesake - a hotel in Croatia facing renovation - but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/     LUCE MAWDSLEY (they/them) is an autistic non-binary composer and guitarist based in Liverpool with a practice rooted in progressive experimentation. Drawing from a range of poetic art forms, their work uses personal experience of neurodivergence, mental health disorders and queerness as a ligature from which to generate subversive explorations of gender, sexuality, place and identity formation. 'Northwest & Nebulous' (out this March on Pure O Records) is a lush and accomplished album suffused with radiant and fluid possibilities. A world-building album pulling from folk, Americana and soundtrack influences, it fuses their romantic and exploratory energies and signals the beginning of a new journey for composer, with an open invitation for listeners to come along for the ride. Luce Mawdsley will be accompanied by fellow North Liverpool musicians Nicholas Branton and Luci Mercer for this performance. https://lucemawdsleymusic.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… ALISON COTTON STEREOCILIA Friday 5 April St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025 ALISON COTTON is a viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was released in 2018 firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes, followed by a vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019 her longform piece, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates’ was released on the Australian label, Longform Editions. As well as the viola, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder, omnichord, shruti box and piano) to create long, haunting folk drones. Cotton’s recent album ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’, is a 6-track record – her first for Rocket Recordings. This will be followed up in March with ‘Engelchen’, an album reflecting on the intrepid Cook sisters whose efforts helped refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, one that reflects a universality in its narrative which transcends the boundaries of history and impacts very urgently on our daily lives. Whatever attempts may be made to tell this story, it’s hard to imagine one that resonates deeper than ‘Engelchen’. https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com STEREOCILIA is Bristol, UK based guitarist and composer, John Scott. John uses his guitar, analog synths and live looping techniques to create dense, rich layers of sound. Over the past 10 years John has performed all over the UK and Europe. in the past he has shared a stage with acts including Ben Frost, William Baskinski, Gnod, Nadja, Daniel Lanois, Noveller, White Hills, Acid Mothers Temple, Josef Van Wissem, Mick Turner (The Dirty Three) and performed in three of Rhys Chatham’s guitar Orchestras. He has also presented work for live radio broadcasts and regularly composes for Short Film, including the Channel 4 award winning documentary, 'The Boy With The 8-Hour Heart.' Stereocilia has released several albums and EP’s on UK independent labels, Drone Rock Records, Low Point, Champion Version, Weird Beard, and his own imprint, Echoic Memory. His 5th album “Crystalline” released in April 2023 was his third release for Brighton based label, Drone Rock Records. https://stereocilia.bandcamp.com/music

Upset The Rhythm presents... HOUSE Of ALL THE COURTESY GROUP Thursday 18 April The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wac85b671659   HOUSE Of ALL's first report of existence only appeared one year ago, followed by a magnificently-received debut album and two UK tours. Praise was immediate and ecstatic, in spite of controversy from former management of The Fall, who took offence at Martin Bramah's off-the-cuff description of the band as "part of The Fall family continuum". Despite this self-evident fact - Bramah was The Fall's original singer before switching to guitar, and with the other members (Peter Greenway, Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley and Si Wolstencroft) HOUSE Of ALL collectively spanned the entire length of The Fall's career. Controversy arose, resulting in a full Guardian article on the band months before the album's release - a scant three days after it was announced. Their two brief tours were flawless; nearly every show sold out, and the latter tour was bolstered by "Bay City Pistols", a limited package that sold out in two weeks. Even before the first album was released, HOUSE Of All re-entered the studio to record their second album 'Continuum' which will be released this April by Tiny Global Productions. https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-all THE COURTESY GROUP are set apart in their own musical galaxy as Birmingham's own tunemongering grinesters. They survive against fashion, mediocrity, systematic dullness and impossible odds. Marmite to most musical confectionery, their debut album 'Tradesman's Entrance' and its successor 'Second City Liquor' have aired on BBC6's Stuart Maconie's Freakzone, Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service and Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (and previously on The John Peel Show on Radio 1), as well as receiving glowing reviews from Mojo, Uncut,  Louder Than War and Stewart Lee in 'The Sunday Times': live, they remain consistently dangerous and a robust antidote to a fully digitalised itunes world.    https://thecourtesygroup.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for spending your time with us. See you down the front on Wednesday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

THE UMBRELLAS SWANSEA SOUND AUTOCAMPER Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   MARY LATTIMORE LUCE MAWDSLEY Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb   ALISON COTTON STEREOCILIA Friday 5 April St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025   MARTIN NEWELL (Cleaners From Venus) Thursday 11 April St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Road, Dalston, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | SOLD OUT HOUSE OF ALL THE COURTESY GROUP Thursday 18 April The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wac85b671659   SCREAM SOULSIDE Friday 10 May Saturday 11 May The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/xc9953269e0e & https://link.dice.fm/Qfab66a55a93   LANKUM Saturday 18 May Sunday 19 May Hackney Empire, 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 8pm | SOLD OUT   EARTH BALL - ‘It’s Yours’ album launch CHRIS CORSANO TERRINE Monday 20 May Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q5215784e354   MOHAMMAD SYFKHAN Thursday 23 May St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/y06425199b5b JEREMIAH CHIU Friday 7 June St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/L6830b5745d6   THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES Wednesday 12 June Thursday 13 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   FUTURE ISLANDS BAXTER DURY JULIE BYRNE Saturday 27 July Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, London, SE19 2BA (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 2pm | Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3500603AB71C3B14   LANKUM Saturday 26 October Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline St, Hammersmith, London, W6 9QH 7pm | Tickets: https://www.eventimapollo.com/events/lankum/   TARA CLERKIN TRIO Saturday 16 November EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aeb338640a1d

 

Jeremiah Chiu - London show for June 7th

Very much looking forward to this newly announced concert with Jeremiah Chiu on June 7th!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JEREMIAH CHIU
Friday 7 June
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/L6830b5745d6

JEREMIAH CHIU is a Los Angeles-via-Chicago artist and musician who released his International Anthem debut duo record with Marta Sofia Honer, Recordings from the Åland Islands, in March of 2022. In Chicago, Chiu was an active member of the notoriously inter-connected improvisational and experimental music scenes. Chiu’s musical CV to that point included work with Icy Demons and Chandeliers, as well as visual art as Some All None. In Los Angeles, he is an electronic music composer and sound-artist, where he performs and composes solo as well as with a variety of collaborators including Josh Johnson, Anna Butterss, Greg Uhlmann, Booker Stardrum, Celia Hollander, Dustin Wong, and Sam Prekop.

Most recently, he has toured with Mary Lattimore, Sam Prekop & John McEntire, and was the opener for M83 on their U.S. Fantasy Tour. He recently released In Electric Time (on International Anthem), a improvised suite of organic electronic music created entirely analog, in-situ at Los Angeles’s Vintage Synth Museum as well as The Closest Thing to Silence, the debut from his trio with Marta Sofia Honer and legendary French born new age musician and electronic music composer Ariel Kalma.

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/in-electric-time

 

 

May show for Mohammad Syfkhan in London!

Get ecstatic as Mohammad Syfkhan is coming to town!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

MOHAMMAD SYFKHAN
Thursday 23 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/y06425199b5b

MOHAMMAD SYFKHAN is an Irish based Kurdish/Syrian singer and Bouzouki player. Mohammad’s own brand of ecstatic music takes elements from Middle Eastern and North African music to create an atmosphere of joy, love and happiness. Since arriving in Ireland, Mohammad has used the language of music to integrate into the local community by playing at private parties and concerts. He has been playing music since the 1980’s, while living in the city of Raqqa, Syria  where he began working as a professional singer and started his own band, The Al-Rabie Band which played concerts, parties, weddings and festivals all over Syria. His debut album ‘I Am Kurdish’ came out on Nyahh Records in February.
https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mohammad-syfkhan-i-am-kurdish

“Syfkhan takes his domestic influences and fuses them with music from beyond those regions, from North African folk rhythms to Turkish psychedelia. It’s a glorious alembic not bound by borders, where Mohammad himself brings a cultivated exuberance to his playing that belies his vintage.” The Quietus

“I Am Kurdish includes luscious covers of 1970s Turkish hit Leylim Ley, Baligh Hamdim’s A Thousand and One Nights and Kurdish songwriter Mihemed Elî Şakir’s gorgeous Put a Coffee in a Glass. The title track, an original with Syfkhan’s deep, husky voice in full flow, is also a highlight.” The Guardian

 

 

Wyrd Psearch - out today!

March comes in like a lion carrying a copy of Wyrd Psearch by The Pheromoans! Released today, lucky album 13 from the lo-fi peddlers has been hailed by Uncut magazine as a “sleek return of droll social commentary and DIY invention”, whilst The Quietus urged  “the ghost of Mark E. Smith to crown them the kings of the sprechgesang gang.” Wow! We’re celebrating the release of the album today by sharing this video for ‘Twibbon Wife’, a track musing on the legacy of The Stone Roses, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and armchair occultists.

Wyrd Psearch is available now in all the best shops and our own webstore here.

Cafe OTO will host an official album launch next Tuesday (March 5th) with The Pheromoans, Apostille and Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys all performing, lucky London. The band will also appear on deXter Bentley’s Hello GoodBye show on Resonance FM tomorrow from noon to chat more about the release, enjoy!