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 Upset The Rhythm presents… KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada KAPUTT are a completely, utterly, broken, post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland coming to you via Upset the Rhythm. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Once described as “Like SesameStreet”, the group continues to strive forward and prove this statement correct. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ CHARLÈNE DARLING lives in Paris and makes off-kilter, shimmering chanson post-punk that connects the dots between the feminist troubadours of Agnès Varda’s L’Une Chante, L’Autre Pas, Thai molam music, The Raincoats and the way Cate Le Bon slides between bucolic melody and clanging post-punk. Her debut album, Saint-Guidon, was one of 2019’s buried treasures! When entering the funny world of Charlène Darling, you will first notice that nothing is really square yet everything seems at its right place. Her solo set (presented here) is all about love, rhythm and voice, a frontal topic and a minimalist setup - drum and vocals - that leads to a surprisingly full and energetic sound. https://charlenedarling.bandcamp.com/ SHAKE CHAIN are a 4-piece experimental group formed of artist Kate Mahony (Vocals), Joe Fergey (Drums), Robert Eyres (Guitar/Synth) and Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth) hailing from Bournemouth, London and Oxford. Formed through a love of thought-provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption, they recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ in 2019 with sound artist David Carugo at Oxford Brookes University, released by Permanent Slump. Shake Chain provide a fusion of post-punk grooves, noise samples and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. Look out for their debut album on Upset The Rhythm later this year. https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/shakechain.shtml |
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SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE Thursday 27 October Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/aaa27bd3c37b SARAH DAVACHI’s work as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant. Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage with artists such as Grouper, the London Contemporary Orchestra, William Basinski, Oren Ambarchi, Ariel Kalma, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Donald Buchla, Alessandro Cortini, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Between 2007 and 2017, Davachi also had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter and content developer of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments. She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), OBORO (Montréal, Canada), MESS (Melbourne, Australia), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, Canada). Davachi is currently a doctoral
candidate in musicology at UCLA – where she works on the aesthetic
phenomenology of musical instruments and timbre in popular,
experimental, and early music – and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Davachi’s new album ‘Two Sisters’ will be released through her own Late
Music imprint on September 9th. For this concert Sarah will be joined
by Anton for a short version of ‘In The Grand Luxe Hall’ for amplified
cello and electronics, she will also perform a longer solo organ set
too. https://www.sarahdavachi.com/ ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE, plays the cello, interdisciplinary artist, composer, founder/director of Apartment House. Many collaborations over time - David Behrman, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Jim O’Rourke, Elaine Mitchener, Jennifer Walshe, Merce Cunningham Dance Company. www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk |
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PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3 PROLAPSE originally formed in
Leicester in the early 1990s and earned a cult following for their
chaotic live sets, and tense and repetitious songs like Flex and Tina
This Is Matthew Stone. They feature duelling vocalists Mick Derrick and
Linda Steelyard, who play out an intense soap opera over a ferocious
triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythm section. Their releases have
included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including
Cherry Red and Radar, as well as recording four Peel sessions. The band
has received critical acclaim, including singles of the week on the
Radio 1 evening session and NME. They have also toured and shared bills
with a diverse array of bands, including Stereolab, Sebadoh, Arab Strap
and Sonic Youth. Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus described Prolapse as the
best band of the weekend at Reading Festival.
After a long hiatus, the band reformed in 2015 and occasionally play live dates. This short UK tour offers a rare chance to experience the Prolapse live show. Two of the band’s Peel sessions have recently been released on the Precious Recordings of London label and Pointless Walks to Dismal Places is re-issued as a double gatefold LP on Optic Nerve Records in July. https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/ YEAH YEAH NOH are an unpop group of some repute, long trading quietly in a melange of noise and ideas that defies categorisation. It’s DIY pop. It’s post-punk. It’s ‘calor gas psychedelia’. Feel the effect as their guitar pedals and secondhand synthesizer play unexpected melodies in your mind. As they relay their stories of consequence and coincidence and mid-air women. John Peel favourites and veterans of three classic BBC sessions back in the day, Yeah Yeah Noh are now championed by Radio 6 Music where Marc Riley and Gideon Coe have twice let them loose in the studio. https://yeahyeahnoh.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE LAILA SAKINI Monday 31 October 229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK 7pm | £12 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/d570d6dcc32e 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. She capped off the banner year — which included international tours with Iceage and Kurt Vile, a performance with Harold Budd at Big Ears Festival, and an appearance on Billboard’s New Age charts — with two collaborative albums released on Three Lobed Recordings, one with Meg Baird and the other with Mac McCaughan. Lattimore's most recent album 'Silver Ladders' (out 2020 on Ghostly), saw her arriving at her most confident work to date, expanding her style of instrumental storytelling with the help of producer and guitarist Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3). Recorded in Halstead’s studio near an old English surftown, the songs on 'Silver Ladders' reflect Lattimore’s vivid memories against the gloom and glimmer of the ocean. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ LAILA SAKINI works with piano, voice, guitar, found sound, electronics and silence to create dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses. Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP) and her 2017 collaboration with poet Lucy Van, Figures (EP). Laila has performed at Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, Listen! festival, The White Hotel, Meakusma x Arkaoda, Kings Place, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho among others. https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/ |
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Richard Dawson - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by Adam Buxton Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ set) Record signing Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370 To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' via Weird World on Nov 18, Richard Dawson presents a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track, a sprawling mood piece entitled 'The Hermit' that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld. Directed by Bristol filmmaker James Hankins and shot across South-West England in summer 2022, the short film will be shown at several cinemas and art spaces across the UK in the week leading up to the album release, with Q & A sessions after each screening. This event offers the first opportunity to hear music from 'The Ruby Cord'. 'The Ruby Cord' is the final part of a trilogy that started with the pre-medieval world of 'Peasant', was brought back to the present day with '2020' and - possibly - concludes in the future with Dawson’s seventh studio album. After recent collaborations with Finnish metal innovators Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, this is a return to Dawson’s own world with seven tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. This special event will feature the premiere screening of the 40 minute film that accompanies 'The Hermit' followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton. |