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Hello everyone!
It's been magic to see so many of you over the last week at our concerts for Lankum, Earth Ball and Mohammad Syfkhan. There's been so many highlights we're dizzy, thank YOU for helping make those happen.
We're back today to whisper in your ear about our record label. That's right, Normil Hawaiians’ astonishing new album Empires Into Sand is out now on LP, CD and all digital platforms.
Empires Into Sand is the first album of new material
from the forward-facing collective in 40 years. Normil Hawaiians first
refined their sound during the early 80s, hitting on a pastoral
experimentalism that drew on ambient drone, motorik impulse and
post-punk pep.
Empires Into Sand came together in the familiar manner of
their original three albums, with improvisation and nuance informing
the blueprint of the tracks.
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There's
a real commitment to truth telling present across this hopeful album
populated with angels, incoming tides, long shadows and the rose-washed
sun. "From our broken windscreen, we feel the breeze" soars Guy Smith
triumphantly over the driving beat of 'Waterfalls : Bedford 330'.
'Big City Sky' flutters and sparkles
with rapid synth runs, tape-looped drums and Jimmy Miller's commanding
vocal. Whilst on 'In The Stone' Zinta's melody is deliberately jagged
and blunt, exaggerated by octave-layered vocals and interjections from
Guy. This is thought-provoking, boundary-bothering music. Honest in
intent, a solidarity of vision. We very much hope you enjoy it. Listen and live! Empires Into Sand is available to order from our webshop here. |
OK, on to the important business of having a great time watching live music! Fans of Earth Ball in London unite! As a parting gift on the last night of their UK tour the band will be providing a sonic stimulus at Arnold Circus tonight at 6pm, free for everyone! Good vibes only!
Continue reading for a thorough look at our upcoming London shows in June from Jeremiah Chiu, Marcel Wave (album launch, oooh) and Eric Chenaux too.
You'll also note that we've added Richard Dawson (oh my) to the lineup of our Lankum show on October 26th at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Enjoy!
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Upset The Rhythm presents… JEREMIAH CHIU
DRUM & LACEFriday 7 June St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/L6830b5745d6JEREMIAH 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-timeDRUM & LACE, AKA
Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is a Florence-raised, London-based
musician. Drum & Lace music takes inspiration from the natural world
and is scattered with field recordings, so while the work is largely
electronic there is a grounding and organic nature to every track.
2022's debut album Natura found inspiration in the soil and in rolling
hills, while 2023's Frost EP captured the quiet beauty of winter. Her
upcoming second LP ONDA, coming June 2024 via Fabrique Records, is her
most dance floor-leaning record to date. It's inspired by the ocean,
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Upset The Rhythm presents… MARCEL WAVE - ‘Something Looming’ album launch!
THE PHEROMOANS
THE PLANFriday 14 June MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7pm-10.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/t6d6b5967c40MARCEL WAVE
write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete
obscenity. Their inaugural sonic instalment ‘Something Looming’ (out
June 14th on Upset The Rhythm) is part trades club symphony, part itchy
serenade, and part wistful lament. As their heady concoction of ‘Meades
meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ gets prepped to be
formally baptised on a dank stage near you, Upset the Rhythm and Feel It
Records have dutifully stepped in to deliver its songbook to the masses
on both sides of the pond.
Formed when Lindsay Corstorphine
and Christopher Murphy of Sauna Youth and brethren Oliver and Patrick
Fisher of Cold Pumas were summoned by northern ink-slinger Maike
Hale-Jones, Marcel Wave’s debut offering is a walk through a
smoke-filled pub with yellowing wallpaper and all eyes on you. It’s a
chronicle of the death of the docklands, the decline of industry, of the
high street, of civic pride, of civilisations, of hopes and dreams. As
Hale-Jones delivers the bad news in her low, West Yorkshire brogue,
Corstorphine adds the bells and whistles via the frantic pulsations of a
wheezing Hohner organ in tandem with Fisher O’s rasping guitar. Marcel
Wave are completed by the throbbing basslines of Murphy and Fisher P’s
fervent rhythms. Join Marcel Wave as they dance to society’s decline
with a lukewarm pint in both hands at this album launch!
https://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com THE PHEROMOANS
are tenants of an unruly domain. Over the last 18 years the group have
evolved from garage rock primitivists to auteurs of their own curious
sound; a frothy brew of loose electronics, refractory rock and humdrum
musing. Their songs are mutable, capricious, unreliable narrations,
often withholding as much as they reveal. Russell Walker’s understated
vocal has always been the band’s unifying focus, it is wry, unsparing
and wilfully honest. Walker’s lyrics are an observational tour de force,
sometimes droll, yet often tipping over into unlikely pathos. With
previous releases on Upset The Rhythm, Convulsive and Alter, 2024 will
witness The Pheromoans return with lucky album number 13, entitled ‘Wyrd
Psearch’ (out now 1st on Upset The Rhythm). With The Pheromoans there
is always a familiarity at play, only broken and reassembled, like a
bygone sitcom gone rogue in your memory. This contributes to the group’s
peculiarly British outsider perspective, one that shouts from the
sidelines, but never goes unnoticed. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/wyrd-psearch THE PLAN
is a continually evolving outfit which includes members who have
previously appeared in bands like Wetdog, Vic Godard and The Subway
Sect, Hot Silk Pockets, Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts, Reverend Pike, and
Private Trousers. Sometimes described as post-punk, they also pull from
more diverse influences such as no wave, garage, psych, as well as
hints of prog. Their songs often move in unexpected directions and are
always pinned together by Rebecca Gillieron's sometimes
defiant/sometimes soft vocal melodies. After fine-tuning new songs to
completion this year, here's a chance to hear material from their new
album, recently recorded by Toby Borrough's from Pozi.
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Upset The Rhythm presents… ERIC CHENAUX
JUDE MCCREATHFriday 28 June St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Pbad9db9e326ERIC 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.
JUDE MCCREATH is a alt-folk
singer-songwriter born in Hertfordshire and currently residing in
London. A former member of the popular indie-rock group second thoughts,
his musical influences include Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Plas Teg and
Eric's Trip. Recent recordings were made with Yuri Shibuichi from
Honeyglaze producing. Jude sometimes performs live with cello and drum
accompaniment. https://on.soundcloud.com/RyZsRw253Y2vMpny6 |
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