Over the moon to announce we have SONIC BOOM coming to play a show for Upset The Rhythm on July 9th. This will be a duo performance with Jason Holt (guitarist in Spectrum) and will take place at Hackney's OSLO from 6.30pm-10pm, here's the full listing:
Upset The Rhythm presents…
SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/sonic-boom-tickets
Since the beginning of the 1980s, Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember has been
exploring his unique vision of music and sound through different
outputs, working with some crucial musicians (Eddie Prévost, Kevin
Shields, Delia Derbyshire, Stereolab, just to name a few) and, mostly in
the last few years, applying his touch to amazing pop/rock records from
MGMT (“Congratulations”) to Panda Bear (“Tomboy”).
His career started in 1983 with Spacemen 3 alongside Jason Pierce, a
band that helped define space-rock, shoegaze and drone-rock, recording
albums that influenced an incalculable amount of bands up to the present
day (and going). American Primitive music, Brian Wilson, Suicide, kraut
rock, the British rave scene (the Kember half of “Recurring”) were
decisive pieces of artistic information in what regards the band’s sound
and Kember was the man behind some of the most iconic songs of the
unit, like “Suicide”, “Losing Touch With My Mind” or “Big City
(Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)”.
When they disbanded, Pete Kember started new projects that he's kept
progressing in to this day. Spectrum, which is a continuation of the
more rock-based work he did in Spacemen 3, and E.A.R. (Experimental
Audio Research), as the names suggests, is his vehicle for working in
more abstract domains, making beautiful and mindblowing -mostly-
synth-based pieces. With E.A.R. Kember worked with a ferocious and
varied group of musicians, as are the cases of Eddie Prévost, Kevin
Shields, Delia Derbyshire, Jessamine and Thomas Köner, both in studio
and in live performance.
In the last two decades he’s also played and collaborated outside of his
monikers with a number of artists, including Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, My
Bloody Valentine (during their reformation tour in 2009), Britta
Philips & Dean Wareham and Panda Bear, during his Noah Lennox's tour
for "Tomboy", an album that was produced by Mr. Kember. He’s been
applying that trade in records from bands like MGMT (“Congratulations”)
and Teen (“In Limbo”), doing mastering work for Wooden Shjips (“West”),
Red Crayola (reissues for “The Parable Of Arable” and “God Bless The Red
Crayola”), Sun Araw (“Ancient Romans” and “Inner Treaty”) and most
recently Peaking Lights’s remix album (“Lucifer In Dub”).
He’s been performing live with four different setups, two as Spectrum
and two as E.A.R. As Spectrum, he plays with a band, playing the show
“Songs The Spacemen Taught Us”, based in the legacy of the Spacemen 3,
while also doing a solo show as Sonic Boom/Spectrum, where he also
focuses on Spacemen 3 while bringing his Spectrum/Sonic Boom songbook to
life.
As E.A.R. he can play solely just by himself., presenting his
magnificent electronic/synth work pieces and the sounds he’s been
working on for more than twenty years, or he can present his work
Hypnogoogia a masterpiece in hypnotic music performance he made for the
Deitch Gallery, inspired on the work of the sound researching genius
Delia Derbyshire before the hypnagogic pop boom.
Selected Discography
Experimental Audio Research
"All Things Being Equal" (Dekorder 2014)
"Worn To A Shadow" (Lumberton Trading Company, 2005)
"Live At The Dream Palace" (Ochre Records, 2000)
"Data Rape" (Space Age Recordings, 1998)
"The Köner Experiment" (Space Age Recordings, 1997)
"Beyond The Pale" (Big Cat, 1996)
"Phenomena 256" (Space Age Recordings, 1996)
"Mesmerised" (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1994)
Spectrum
"Forever Alien" (Space Age Recordings, 1997)
"Highs, Lows And Heavenly Blows (Silverstone,1994)
"Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)" (Silverstone, 1992)
Spacemen 3
"Recurring" (Fire, 1990)
"Performance" (Glass, 1988)
"Playing With Fire" (Fire, 1988)
"The Perfect Prescription" (Glass, 1987)
"Sound Of Confusion" (Glass, 1986)
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