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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch! THE SILVER FIELD Wednesday 6 August St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b
ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully weave together disparate genres, drawing influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music. In 2023 Me Lost Me released the critically regarded album 'RPG' and toured extensively in support of the release. On Me Lost Me's fourth full-length, This Material Moment - arriving on Upset the Rhythm on 27th June - she has created an "emotionally raw" album, her most honest and vulnerable yet. Me Lost Me presents sound reaching in opposite directions, straddling time towards the archaic and timeless traditions of folktales, and towards the possible and potential futures of pastoral Britain and the world at large. Concerned with physicality, interpretations, and, yes, materiality, ‘This Material Moment’ is an album akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider it from every angle. "This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies." Jayne says, "it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places." ‘This Material Moment’ was written and arranged solo, but played with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and now with the addition of Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums - bringing in live drums and electric bass for the first time. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on RPG. https://www.melostme.com/ THE SILVER FIELD is an Oram award-winning project built from the sound world of Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, Coral weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound that draws from folk music tradition, experimental electronics and psychedelia. |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
WALT McCLEMENTS
JACKEN ELSWYTH Wednesday 27 August Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd WALT McCLEMENTS
is an accordionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los
Angeles. His solo compositions focus on processed accordion, creating
patient and emotional meditations that nod to drone and ambient music.
His debut record, “A Hole in the Fence” was released in 2021 on
American Dreams, and utilized a minimal palette of accordions treated
through guitar pedals to create glacial soundscapes and odes to hidden
worlds. On his latest record and first for Western Vinyl, “On a Painted
Ocean”, he expands his sonic tools to include lush synths, droning pipe
organs, and spirited horns, creating a vibrant journey from solitary
stillness to community exuberance. The record also follows last year’s
“Rain on the Road”, a collaborative album with harpist Mary Lattimore,
released on Thrill Jockey.
Prior to
releasing music under his own name, McClements has been a touring
member of Weyes Blood, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Dark Dark Dark, as
well as leading New Orleans art-punk brass ensemble Why Are We Building
Such A Big Ship? and one man band Lonesome Leash.
JACKEN ELSWYTH
is a London-based folk musician, banjo player, and instrument builder.
In her music making she is focused on exploring traditional tunes,
developing extrapolations on folk styles and techniques, and
investigating drone, ambience, and improvisation within and beyond folk
music. Her debut album At Fargrounds (Wrong speed Records, 2024) was
described as a ‘folk-thesis for our times’ by The Quietus. Jacken also
organises the Betwixt & Between split tape series, and plays in
Shovel Dance Collective too.
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