Greetings!
Upset The
Rhythm have three shows coming up in London next week. On Tuesday we’re hosting
a night at Servant Jazz Quarters for Los Angeles Free Music Society bedrocks; Rick Potts, Joe Potts and Vetza (who
also all perform in noise progenitors Airway). Vetza will be performing solo
and as part of a trio with the Brothers Potts. Joe and Rick will be also
performing as a duo, whilst the evening kicks off with a short documentary film
all about the LAFMS entitled how low can you go?
Then next Thursday,
we’re especially lucky to have Colin
Self performing for us at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton. Colin was last
in London as part of Holly Herndon’s band supporting Radiohead no less! His music explores the transformative
power of the human voice, drawing on a diverse set of influences that include
queer theory, liturgical ritual, trap rhythms and electro-acoustic sound
design. Colin’s performance
is forlorn, lush and absorbing and the perfect complement for Liberez playing beforehand.
Finally on
Friday, one week today, we’ll be working with Café OTO on an evening with Joshua Abrams. Joshua will be
presenting his current Natural Information Society project which sees him integrating
composition and improvisation to create hypnotic, highly rhythmic, psychedelic
environments centred around the sound of his Guimbri (a Gnawan lute). He’s also
invited Evan Parker to lend his
lungs to these performances, including a special duo with Joshua to kick off
proceedings. Read on for all the specifics, tickets for all still available.
This week we also confirmed two new
shows for October. The first taking place at The Lexington on October 4th
with wonderfully-offbeat songsmith Stephen Steinbrink. The second concert is placed
at The Forge on October 24th with dual headline performances planned
for Marisa Anderson and Laura Cannell. Both are masterful
musicians interested in stretching the confines of traditional folk music into
realms of improvised experiment and joyous release. Tickets onsale for both of
these as of this morning!
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JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16
8JN
7.30pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358852
Aside from being founding members of
Los Angeles Free Music Society, Joe and Rick also performed in legendary,
early-noise group Airway, which Vetza’s electrifying vocals contributed much to,
amid the subliminal messages, crashing drums and walls of tape delay. Airway is
the brainchild of Joe Potts who controls the flow of chaos from the mixing
desk, he has also recorded several solo documents and played in Extended Organ
with Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Rick Potts is a multi-instrumentalist
and visual artist, he played mandolin/guitar in Airway and appeared in Solid
Eye and Dinosaurs With Horns, both with Joseph Hammer.
The evening will begin with a screening of ‘LAFMS: how low can you go?’. A short film portrait of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. These irreverent, LA-based experimental musicians have been fearlessly exploring sound since the early 1970’s. The collective is bonded by friendship and a love for blowing apart boundaries. The influence LAFMS has had on the explosion of international DIY culture is immeasurable. Explicitly acknowledged as a motivation for the emergence of the Japanese noise scene in the 1980s, as well as being cited specifically by the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and John Olson (Wolf Eyes), the collective that emerged in LA in 1973 resulted in countless adventurous music lovers tasting the delights of a new kind of creative freedom and getting out there and doing it for themselves.
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COLIN SELF
LIBEREZ
Thursday 16 June
Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street,
Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361432
COLIN SELF utilises the voice, the body and
computer software in his practise to open up a highly distinctive space that
challenges the boundaries between human consciousness and technology. His music
explores the transformative power of the human voice drawing on a diverse set
of influences that include queer theory, liturgical ritual, trap rhythms and
electro-acoustic sound design. He is known for his highly charged, physical
performances that combine his vocal virtuosity with choreographed movement and
electronic processing, unfolding into a compelling play of transmutation.
‘Elation’ is the debut solo release from Colin Self. The album is comprised of
music from The Elation Series, a six-part opera demonstrating themes of
transformation and global consciousness. He has performed in galleries
worldwide, from the global queer underground to contemporary art galleries such
as PS1 MoMA and Issue Project Room. He is also a close collaborator of Holly
Herndon, contributing vocals/production on her latest record ‘Platform’ as well
as being a member of her new live set up.
https://soundcloud.com/colin-self/telling
LIBEREZ is the latest incarnation of a long running music collaboration between John Hannon and Pete Wilkins. Since their debut album 'The Letter' (Alter Records), the project has also involved multi-instrumentalist Tom James Scott and vocalist Nina Bosnic too. Repetitve dual vocal patterns are augmented with amplified percussion, loping rhythms, guitar and hypnotic violin dissonance to create a sense of abstracted ritual which can't help but draw listeners further into the labyrinth. Since ‘The Letter’, Liberez have released an LP lurching around Britain's industrial past called 'Sane Men Surround' on Savoury Days and followed that up last year with ‘All Tense Now Lax’ Night School; a tense, gut-wrenching listen wrought with carefully considered space, the range of techniques and the depth of atmosphere is staggering. The album is allowed to breathe and evolve, with field recordings, industrial patterns and alienated instrumentation woven together seamlessly.
LIBEREZ is the latest incarnation of a long running music collaboration between John Hannon and Pete Wilkins. Since their debut album 'The Letter' (Alter Records), the project has also involved multi-instrumentalist Tom James Scott and vocalist Nina Bosnic too. Repetitve dual vocal patterns are augmented with amplified percussion, loping rhythms, guitar and hypnotic violin dissonance to create a sense of abstracted ritual which can't help but draw listeners further into the labyrinth. Since ‘The Letter’, Liberez have released an LP lurching around Britain's industrial past called 'Sane Men Surround' on Savoury Days and followed that up last year with ‘All Tense Now Lax’ Night School; a tense, gut-wrenching listen wrought with carefully considered space, the range of techniques and the depth of atmosphere is staggering. The album is allowed to breathe and evolve, with field recordings, industrial patterns and alienated instrumentation woven together seamlessly.
\\\\\ FRIDAY /////
In collaboration
with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe
OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
JOSHUA
ABRAMS has released eight
albums, collaborated on over a hundred recordings, and composed soundtracks for
Steve James’ Life Itself, the Emmy award winning The Interrupters, and Bill
Siegel’s The Trials of Muhammad Ali. The New York Times describes his 2012
record, Represencing (Eremite) as "music that hints at the ceremonial
without losing its modern bearings" and The Wire named his record Natural
Information (Eremite) one of the top 50 recordings of 2010. The Village Voice
picked his record Unknown Known as “one of the top 10 jazz albums of 2013”. He
was a founding member of the “back porch minimalism” collective Town and
Country and with Matana Roberts and Chad Taylor, the trio Sticks and Stones.
Primarily known as a bassist, Joshua’s performances and recordings include work
with Fred Anderson, Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Peter Brotzmann, Bill Dixon,
John Tchicai, Toumani Diabate, Joe McPhee, The Roots, Bonnie “Prince” Billy,
Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Mike Reed, Rob Mazurek, Gerald Cleaver, Henry
Grimes, Bobby Broom, Dana Hall, Axel Dorner, Neil Michael Hagerty and the
Howling Hex, Prefuse 73, Savath and Savalis, Sam Prekop, Jandek, Rhys Chatham,
Damo Suzuki, Theaster Gates, Craig Taborn and Earle Brown. His latest record
“Magnetoception” is due out in the fall of 2014 on Eremite records.
Natural Information Society is the name of Joshua Abrams’ group that formed in the wake of his records for Eremite. Live the music centres around the sound of the guimbri (a Gnawan lute), integrating composition and improvisation to create hypnotic, highly rhythmic, psychedelic environments with an orientation towards uplift. For this show they'll be joined for a very special performance with the great Evan Parker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmPZIynnIA
EVAN PARKER has been a consistently innovative presence in British free music since the 1960s. Parker played with John Stevens in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, experimenting with new kinds of group improvisation and held a long-standing partnership with guitarist Derek Bailey. The two formed the Music Improvisation Company and later Incus Records. He also has tight associations with European free improvisations - playing on Peter Brötzmann's legendary 'Machine Gun' session (1968), with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lovens (A trio that continues to this day), Globe Unity Orchestra, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, and Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO).
EVAN PARKER has been a consistently innovative presence in British free music since the 1960s. Parker played with John Stevens in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, experimenting with new kinds of group improvisation and held a long-standing partnership with guitarist Derek Bailey. The two formed the Music Improvisation Company and later Incus Records. He also has tight associations with European free improvisations - playing on Peter Brötzmann's legendary 'Machine Gun' session (1968), with Alexander Von Schlippenbach and Paul Lovens (A trio that continues to this day), Globe Unity Orchestra, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, and Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO).
https://soundcloud.com/cafeoto/evan-parker-derek-bailey-han-bennink-topography-of-the-lungs-excerpt-rokure001
Have a great weekend, thanks for
reading!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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JOE
& RICK POTTS
POTTS
VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston,
London N16 8JN
7.30pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358852
COLIN SELF
LIBEREZ
Thursday 16 June
Courtyard Theatre, 40
Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361432
In collaboration
with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147
TY SEGALL &
THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish
Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
7pm | £17 | http://www.songkick.com/concerts/26246629-ty-segall-and-the-muggers-at-o2-forum-kentish-town
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
SONIC BOOM
HAPPY MEALS
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2
6NB
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631
CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE
CARR
THE
LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ
NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston,
E8 3DL
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
Tuesday 4 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Monday 24 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/364535
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