We’ve made it
to the end of the working week and now we’re stepping up a gear as Upset The
Rhythm have three shows coming up over the next few days. Tonight we’re thrilled
to have Karen Gwyer, Container and Giant Swan offering up an impeccable trifecta of mutant techno,
electronic ritual and dance floor focus. This will all take place tonight at The
Old Baths in Hackney Wick. Tickets will be £10 on the door from 7.30pm with
live music quaking the building from 8.45pm. If that wasn’t enough, we have Rough Fields DJing throughout the
evening too, see you there!
Tomorrow we
pitch up at Café OTO for a special performance from Darren Hayman & Band who will be performing tracks from their venerable
Thankful
Villages project which sees them accompanying their songs with short
films based upon a series of villages whose soldiers all returned to their
families after The Great War. It’s poignant, offbeat and filled with journeyman
pride and a sense of unexpected adventure. The first volume of music from this endeavour
is released today through Rivertones, so talk about timing! Joining Darren
& Co will be July Skies (also on
Rivertones) in support, bringing their equally evocative landscape compositions
to the foreground. Tickets for tomorrow will also be available on the door for
£10, with amplifiers being switched on around 8.30pm.
Last but not
least, next Tuesday, Geneva Jacuzzi
plays her very first headline show in London. We’ve been seemingly waiting a
lifetime to make this happen. Geneva is one of the most singular and inventive
artists out there and we’re venturing into dream come true territory with this
event. Tuesday’s concert takes place at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club and
also features sets from Liberation
(David West of Rat Columns’ new synth concern) and Moonbow. Fans of crypto-pop music, keyboard cannibalism and outré
performance, take heed! This show has all the makings of taking us all to a
newer, weirder yet absurdly perfect dimension, and who wouldn’t want to go
there? Tickets for this one cost just £7 and will be available on the door from
7.30pm, or in advance (like all of our shows) from wegottickets. Read on for a
more in depth look at all three of those, enjoy…
\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
ROUGH FIELDS (DJ SET)
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354985
KAREN GWYER was born in the southern US and raised
in the north. Now based in London, she shifts between hypnotic, thickly
melodic, bass-laden tumbling left-of-techno dancefloor vibes and diversionary
acidic psychedelia in her expansive largely analogue live electronic
performances. Her music is bathed in immersive atmospheres, hewn in layers of
thick, gauzey synth and drums that are itchy and fractious, straining to pull
out of the confines of regular patterns. Her tracks now mostly work in
long-form, stretching out to around the 15-minute mark allowing motifs to seep
in and take shape before dissipating into gradual decay, embedding the listener
in a hinterland soundscape. Her last record was released on Nous Disques last
Summer, entitled ‘Bouloman’. ‘Bouloman’ is hectic, unpredictable and delirious,
but crucially, it's also propulsive. There's no shortage of murk on the record,
it's just that Gwyer's clever arrangements blow right through it. To date, she
has also released a handful of recordings on Kaleidoscope, No Pain In Pop and
Opal tapes, for which she has toured twice and continues to appear occasionally
as part of the ongoing Opal Tapes showcases. She has produced remixes for
labels such as Nous, Software, Public Information, Domino, Kaleidoscope and
Different Fountains Editions, and created a number of commissioned pieces for
Open Music Archive.
https://soundcloud.com/karengwyer
CONTAINER is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI’s Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts vicious punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, capable of both rushing the high-end dancefloors of Unsound, Donau and Berghain, and banging the below-stairs basements of Europe into submission. Started in 2009 in response to his discovery of nineties minimal techno, Container combined elements from his background in noise and cassette collage music with a new found interest in repetitive beats to create this raw and damaged rhythmic sound. After a string of various cassette releases, the debut full length “LP” was released by Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools in 2011, and has since been followed up by a second Spools “LP” and the “Treatment” 12” on the Morphine label…a steaming new 12” pulled in earlier this year on Liberation Technologies (see track ‘Glaze’ below) as well as the thrillingly violent mauling of Four Tet’s ‘Kool FM’. Container’s new record came out on Spectrum Spools in June 2015 to much acclaim.
CONTAINER is the stripped-down, beat-oriented electronic project of Providence, RI’s Ren Schofield, who somehow sculpts vicious punk sonics into raw jackhammer rhythms that groove in the most relentless, hypnotic, unstoppable and psychedelic ways currently working the grid. This lo-fi mesh of maxed-out drum patterns, spiralling loops and mesmerising arrangements makes for live music of serious weight and function, capable of both rushing the high-end dancefloors of Unsound, Donau and Berghain, and banging the below-stairs basements of Europe into submission. Started in 2009 in response to his discovery of nineties minimal techno, Container combined elements from his background in noise and cassette collage music with a new found interest in repetitive beats to create this raw and damaged rhythmic sound. After a string of various cassette releases, the debut full length “LP” was released by Editions Mego sub-label Spectrum Spools in 2011, and has since been followed up by a second Spools “LP” and the “Treatment” 12” on the Morphine label…a steaming new 12” pulled in earlier this year on Liberation Technologies (see track ‘Glaze’ below) as well as the thrillingly violent mauling of Four Tet’s ‘Kool FM’. Container’s new record came out on Spectrum Spools in June 2015 to much acclaim.
https://soundcloud.com/gentledefect
GIANT SWAN are an embryonic, shapeshifting duo who press repeat and take aim at the sun. Grabbing the necessary sounds from guitars, pedals and their own throats, Robin Stewart and Harry Wright coax raw-hearted live experiences that are constantly shifting in their stillness, bleeding between several sonic movements that both obliterate and invigorate and find them drifting away, serene and discordant, from the noise-techno bevy. Vital players within Bristol’s Howling Owl collective and with strong ties to Young Echo, Stewart and Wright formed a preteen musical alliance as part of psych guitar miscreants The Naturals: Giant Swan sees them go feral, a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating noise delivered with telepathic intricacy.
GIANT SWAN are an embryonic, shapeshifting duo who press repeat and take aim at the sun. Grabbing the necessary sounds from guitars, pedals and their own throats, Robin Stewart and Harry Wright coax raw-hearted live experiences that are constantly shifting in their stillness, bleeding between several sonic movements that both obliterate and invigorate and find them drifting away, serene and discordant, from the noise-techno bevy. Vital players within Bristol’s Howling Owl collective and with strong ties to Young Echo, Stewart and Wright formed a preteen musical alliance as part of psych guitar miscreants The Naturals: Giant Swan sees them go feral, a cross-breed of hypnotic bass, industrial percussion and disorientating noise delivered with telepathic intricacy.
https://www.facebook.com/giantswanmusic?fref=ts
\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN
HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY
SKIES
Plus
Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston,
E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354014
DARREN HAYMAN is a prolific singer-songwriter, intrigued
by our relationships with places and armed with the idiosyncratic eye of a
Shell Guide. Recently he’s stepped outside for rural jaunt through Britain’s 54
Thankful Villages and this concert sees him share the fruits of these labours
in a live setting, making full use of both a band and projections. A Thankful
Village is a village in Britain where every soldier returned alive from World
War I. The writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee coined the term ‘Thankful
Village’ in his series of guidebooks, ‘The King’s England’ in the 1930s. Darren
Hayman has visited each of the villages and, focussing on local life, has made
a piece of music and a short film for each one. Some take the form of
instrumentals inspired by the location, some are interviews with village
residents set to music, others are new songs with lyrics or found local
traditional songs. ‘Thankful Villages Volume 1’ (released by Rivertones on June
3rd) is the first album of a three volume study from this project and contains
the first 18 villages that Darren visited during 2014/15. The pieces do not
necessarily refer to the Great War, rather they portray the village and it’s
communities at many points in history. In ‘Stocklinch’ Ros tells a story of a
painting of the old church changing hands through the village, whilst in
‘Strethall’ Darren sings a story of infidelity from the parish records from
1607 and in ‘St Michael, South Elmham’ Dolly tells the story of her melodeon
playing father and his adventures in Salonika. ‘Thankful Villages’ is a collage
of Britain’s hidden places. Rich in history and community, ‘Thankful Villages’
is a further enthralling chapter in Darren’s journey through the country’s
underbelly.
http://thankfulvillages.co.uk/
JULY SKIES is a West Midlands based recording
project begun by Antony Harding in 1997. In 2008 the band released their
gorgeous British landscape LP from 2008 entitled ‘The Weather Clock’. A lost
guitar–led, harmonic-ambient gem, it’s less a hauntological delve into the
British psyche and more a bleached out mid-summer’s daydream much like Felt’s
‘Train Above The City’ – something akin to a transportational meditation on the
British countryside soundtracked by Vini Reilly and viewed from a perfect
horizontal hillside vantage point. This April, Rivertones (the phonographic arm
of Nature and culture website Caught by the River) will be reissuing ‘The Weather
Clock’ for the first time on vinyl. Since the release of The Weather Clock,
July Skies has regrouped as a five-piece band and have been spending time
recording the fifth LP ‘A Day In The Country’. July Skies is: Orford Ness, lost
youth, Henry Moore, pylons across fields, abandoned airfields, Avebury, endless
childhood summers, forgotten England, the romance of the heavens well after
closing time, Super8, countryside, mornings in May, ruins, faded innocence,
post-war Britain, skies of all seasons, trudging coastlines, Festival of
Britain 1951, memories made with a Polaroid Landcam 103, overgrown follies,
East Anglia, concrete precincts and tower blocks, suburbia, old Ordnance
Survey maps, lost airmen, rustic charm, John Nash, poppy day, a half remembered
smile, BST, municipal parks at dusk, love, infatuation and loss.
http://www.julyskies.com/wordpress2/
\\\\\ TUESDAY /////
GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
MOONBOW
Tuesday
7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard
Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353484
GENEVA JACUZZI (born Geneva Garvin) is a Los
Angeles-based visual artist, musician, composer, and playwright who is known
for her synth-driven bedroom pop recordings, theatrical stage performances, and
retro-style video art. She has honed a blithe and cryptic wit filled with
telling people what to do, body-motional detachment, bodiless baby traffic
directing, humanoid furniture, nonsense, puns and mime control. Since the early
2,000's Jacuzzi has developed a cult following after self-releasing multiple
albums of analog 8-track cassette home recordings. Her lyrics describe blood
being thrown onto fire, clown-like machines in search of sadness and the raging
monologues of future/past elemental beings. Her videos and live performances
portray the story of a once abundant Self being shattered into a variety of
other personas, all being played by Jacuzzi, and all cannibalizing-commodifying
their revenge upon the idea of an original Self which is now lost if not
mythical, somewhere in the Islands of the Jacuzzi. Vinyl International put out
2010’s incredible ‘Lamaze’ album that Geneva toured extensively in support of
alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink, whilst Medical Records recently issued her
stunning new album ‘Technophelia’.
http://www.genevajacuzzi.com/_/HOME.html
LIBERATION is the alias of one David West, principal songwriter in Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox and Lace Curtain and former member of Total Control. A seasoned travelling wilbury, West’s discography crosses Blackest Ever Black, DFA, Software and soon Night School, though he is always difficult to set in stone. Liberation is a deconstruction of synth pop, R+B, 80s House music and an emotional fragility that lures the listener into West’s singular world of missed connections, night-time lovers staring across foggy bays, the untethered heart adrift in the modern world.
LIBERATION is the alias of one David West, principal songwriter in Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox and Lace Curtain and former member of Total Control. A seasoned travelling wilbury, West’s discography crosses Blackest Ever Black, DFA, Software and soon Night School, though he is always difficult to set in stone. Liberation is a deconstruction of synth pop, R+B, 80s House music and an emotional fragility that lures the listener into West’s singular world of missed connections, night-time lovers staring across foggy bays, the untethered heart adrift in the modern world.
http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/
MOONBOW is the sonic brainchild of London multimedia artist Eleanor Hardwick. Performing alongside a rotating cast of collaborators, it's post-internet political lyricism and spaced out pop melodies on top of industrial cold wave beats. New single 'Altering Ego' came out May 2016 followed by praise from i-D, Clash and The 405.
MOONBOW is the sonic brainchild of London multimedia artist Eleanor Hardwick. Performing alongside a rotating cast of collaborators, it's post-internet political lyricism and spaced out pop melodies on top of industrial cold wave beats. New single 'Altering Ego' came out May 2016 followed by praise from i-D, Clash and The 405.
Thank you everyone for your time! Plus
special thanks to all of you for coming to see Downtown Boys earlier this week,
congratulations on making it one of our shows of the year, what an amazing time
was had!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
ROUGH FIELDS (DJ SET)
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354985
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful
Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4
June
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354014
GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
MOONBOW
Tuesday
7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard
Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353484
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
LUCKY
DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
DIYSFL is a
members club, become a member here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
SONIC BOOM
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
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361817
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
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