Due to Heaven nightclub losing its live music license our concert with Xiu Xiu, Evichen and John Lee Bird & Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo on Tuesday 19 November will now take place at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. All original tickets remain valid.
Upset The Rhythm presents…
XIU XIU
EVICSHEN
JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO
Tuesday 19 November
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wbcbd06fdcd1
XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu's music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners.
13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl Records) is the newest record from Xiu Xiu, but only on the face of it. Underneath that face, the sinews and struggles of a need that seeks to name itself over every record, and every song on every record, ever written by Xiu Xiu of course. Nine songs to seal the deal for those who will still listen to all nine songs, in order, because an album is a message that can’t be read piecemeal. Mixed by John Congleton with a band-directed dictum that he should feel free to both “go crazy” and if there was ever any doubt as to what that meant please, by all means “choose iconoclasm.”
http://www.xiuxiu.org/
EVICSHEN aka Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning.
https://evicshen.com/
JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO present themselves as a queer duo of narrative words and soundscapes with an upcoming album featuring collaborations with Simon Fisher Turner, Xiu Xiu, Paul Beauchamp and Julia Kent and the recent EP “Some Time Spent There”, featuring actor/flute player Francesca Sebastian Puopolo, who also performs live with them.
https://fabriziomodonesepalumbo.bandcamp.com/album/some-time-spent-there