UPSET THE RHYTHM: London shows this week for CC Dust, Ty Segall & The Muggers, Ausmuteants, Eartheater and Gabriel Saloman!

Afternoon everyone!

Abundant thanks to all of you who came out last week to our shows, Colin Self and Natural Information Society both blew us beyond away with their performances. We have footage from both concerts up on our video channel now if you’d like to re/live how great it was!

Remember, we wouldn’t be able to organise concerts for artists like these without your support, your contribution is always valued, thank you endlessly!

This week we have another trio of Upset The Rhythm events planned. Thursday sees us head to Servant Jazz Quarters for a night of synth-pop craving and eerie punk actions with CC Dust, Static Palm and Badaboum. Anyone who caught Maryjane’s performance style with VEXX last Summer can attest to what an electrifying experience watching her enact truly is! Tickets are just £5 and will be available on the door.

Friday finds us at The O2 Forum Kentish Town with the astonishing Ty Segall & The Muggers and Ausmuteants; an epic meeting of minds for heavy-hitting riffage, kinetic thrills and all things punk vs offbeat. The Muggers feature members of Wand, Cairo Gang and King Tuff himself, so looks set to be dizzyingly special indeed. The Ausmuteants show last year was also one of our favourites, even though Harry Potter didn’t turn up on the band’s guestlist! Tickets available from the links below, amplifiers on from 8pm.

Finally, this Saturday we’re delighted to be back at Café OTO, this time accompanied by the stratospheric, crystalline balladry of Eartheater, visionary sound abstraction from Gabriel Saloman and enigmatic, pastoral psych-outs from Common Eider, King Eider. Literally a triple headline show, this is the concert that just keeps coming up with the goods! Tickets for this are £9 in advance from the link below, plus there’s paragraphs galore on each of these events to follow.

It’s time to close those diaries and open your wardrobe! With our new TERRY album coming out next week, we’re celebrating early with this brand new t-shirt design by James Vinciguerra of Total Control. These were printed by The Positive Press this week on 100% cotton Anvil shirts and are available from our webstore in multitude sizes right now! This is a limited run of 100 shirts, with all proceeds going towards bringing over the band on their debut tour this September! Available to purchase here:

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CC DUST
STATIC PALM

BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147

CC DUST is a new duo from Olympia, Washington featuring Maryjane Dunphe and David Jaques. Channeling an elemental life-force hewn straight from the heart, Dunphe’s voice bursts into every melodic line, a cracked, soulful instrument powered by conviction, duetting, duelling and dancing with Jaques’ crisp electronic production. A light that casts shadow, a doomed, romantic music anchored by Jacques’ live bass and powerful performance values Dunphe has honed both in her punk group Vexx and in various film and performance projects. Musically, CC Dust’s precedents might be considered the European synth pop originators of the early 80s, there’s also an abundance of low-end hooks played on baritone and bass guitars that teases the ear like early New Order productions, but in Dunphe’s passionate vocal performances there’s a close-to-the-bone reality that bypasses cool detachment. CC Dust play real songs lived.

https://soundcloud.com/prnldeath/cc-dust-never-gonna-die

STATIC PALM is the solo project of James Burgess, joined live by Sealings' Michael & Liam. Synth & drum-machine led brooding post-punk. Fans of John Maus, Total Control, Tuxedomoon and other practitioners of ice-cold post-punk will enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/static-palm

BADABOUM are a French all-star group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and Solene (Dudu Geva). They play a form of post punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and Malaria adding their own reverbed idiosyncracies and eerie organ lines, chanting in indecipherable italian, mock german and plain french. Taking turns on drums and blowing thru severed reeds, Badaboum will bring you as much joy as spooked chaos. Bruit Direct Disques just released their debut LP.

http://bruit-direct.org/fr/prod/badaboum-lp/

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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

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS, what are they thinking? Whether under his own name or from various side projects, Ty Segall has kept new music waiting around the corner for years. Over a mountain of releases (mainly on Drag City and In The Red), he's proven that he can shred multiple times over, and that he can match that intensity in his acoustic singer/songwriter mode. With new album ‘Emotional Mugger’, we arrived at a turning point for Segall, now he’s less focused on hitting the exact right notes and more concerned with establishing an offbeat vibe, one matching the cheerful menace of the smiling doll heads on the record sleeve. Another major departure for Segall on ‘Emotional Mugger’ is his team. In addition to his usual co-conspirators Mikal Cronin and Charles Moothart, he's surrounded himself by heavy-hitters like Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), producer F. Bermudez (who helmed recent records by Gun Outfit and No Age), Wand's Cory Hanson and Evan Burrows, and the Cairo Gang's Emmett Kelly. Ty Segall & The Muggers are addicted to cheap thrills, rooting their songs with weird punk hooks, droning synths and trippy guitar solos, they want it rawer and realer because when Candy’s gone, there’s no more fun!

http://emotionalmugger.com/

AUSMUTEANTS are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria (Australia), raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome and the Screamers. Letʼs not mention Devo—as a two-piece, Jake Robertson (synth, guitar) and Billy Gardener (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of their ‘Split Personalities’ album in 2012. They’ve since added Marc Dean and Shaun Connor on bass and guitar, respectively, and worked ’60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of heft into finely crafted pop songs, recording 22 in early 2013. Aarght! Records picked the best twelve for ‘Amusements’, reissued on vinyl by Goner. It's 12 tracks of ripping, captivating, fun synth-punk. As they shift from a deep buzzing synth to a trembling high end, Ausmuteants consistently veer far away from anything resembling ‘Computer World’. Instead, they invoke the kinetic, trashy attack of the essential Killed By Death punk compilations. "Bad Day" has a persistent synth churn that's bolstered by Gardener's primitive, hi-hat led stomp. Then there's "Daylight Robbery", which features a melody that seems appropriately urgent for a song about breaking a window in order to commit a crime in plain view of the afternoon sun. Ausmuteants create a specific, slovenly universe with their music, and while they don't move too far past the couch, they create an exciting synth barrage from where they sit.

http://ausmuteants.bandcamp.com/

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EARTHEATER

GABRIEL SALOMAN

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER

Saturday 25 June

Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353942

EARTHEATER is Alexandra Drewchin, a New York based musician and artist who seeks on a daily basis to upgrade her mental software. Also known for her shamanic performances fronting Guardian Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled solo vessel, a deliberate distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic production techniques into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline details. At any given moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between a folk song, a musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a cosmic montage that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad arrangements rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her dynamic vocal performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities. Drewchin builds layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to constitute stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October 2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.

https://soundcloud.com/alex-drewchin

GABRIEL SALOMAN is a Vancouver based musician and artist who has been performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently composes and performs solo as GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel concern with sound art as both liberating practice and praxis. In recent performances and recordings Saloman’s music has been composed of percussion, tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar, keyboards, piano and voice. In particular Saloman has explored the use of found sound, field recordings, percussion and processed blank cassettes.

https://gabrielsaloman.bandcamp.com/

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always been an enigmatic project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and operating on the fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in sweeping drones, stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence. This endeavor (the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback to his will, smoothing out harsh edges into something soothing, gentle, and quite lovely; nature infuses every note and every pause, and that the project's latest album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and its five movements sound like a dark forest evening is no coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the latest offering from Common Eider King Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It comes with a handmade book of poetry, printed with metallic gold ink on blood red 100% recycled paper.

https://commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/

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CC DUST
STATIC PALM

BADABOUM
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