Greetings everyone!
This week sees the release of another new album through UTR, the seriously brilliant debut record from SILVER FOX.
It’s a stunning album of raucous, sad, powerful and wistful
reflections, full of responsive harmonies and primal beats at its heart.
Hitting the shops this coming week, it’s also available from our online shop now.
Why not listen here (hear)?
We
also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our final two
shows for 2013. Tomorrow we’re at Café OTO with a transcendent show for
Dust To Digital’s LONNIE HOLLEY and DURGA. Then on December 18th (two weeks today!), we’ll be celebrating 10 years of Upset The Rhythm with FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES
at the Courtyard Theatre. We’ve done approximately one show every week
for a whole decade! Where does the time go? I hope you can join us for
the party. We’re also announcing today HELM as support to PETE SWANSON in January too. Lots more detail follows next…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
DURGA
Thursday 5 December
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
LONNIE HOLLEY
was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of 27
children. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up
trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived
in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster
homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the
pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to
the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out
of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious
curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing,
painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s
sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition
of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and
artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that
commemorate places, people, and events.
Holley
did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his
creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and
lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event,
concert, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment, he would
construct and deconstruct his visual works, re-purposing their elements
for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives
into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth
and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in
Holley’s music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving
experimentation. 'Just Before Music' features Holley’s first studio
recordings made in 2010/2011 and was released last year by Dust To
Digital to widespread acclaim. New album, 'Keeping A Record Of It' came
out last month and has seen Lonnie touring with Deerhunter and Bill
Callahan across the USA in support of the record ahead of his first
proper European tour.
DURGA
is a psych-prog landscapist duo: Berlin school electronics with
jazzgazing guitar trails. Modal digressions, faux-Mellotronix,
vapour-thin celestial scaffolding and heavy sunburst widescreen vistas.
\\\\\\ 10TH BIRTHDAY /////
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns
AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a
'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band
White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various
monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a
studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass
McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album
under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out
January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In
anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the
interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back,
cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key
and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about
terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped
by these high, astral, childlike voices.
MICKEY GLOSS
is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of
Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in
summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The
Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger
Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You
Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a
distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.
THE WHARVES
feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla
Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful
unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of
charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think
Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay.
Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power
now!
This Sunday Upset The Rhythm will also be taking part in the Café OTO / LUX Christmas fair,
alongside a host of terrific independent publishers and labels. Xmas
presents anyone? The fair runs from noon – 5pm at OTO and also features
selected film screenings and live performances too.
Thanks for reading this modest missive,
All the best of times to you,
UPSET
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UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
HELM
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
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