Excited to announce this new show of extended harmonic resolutions and blown-out dub pop!
Upset The Rhythm
presents…
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
Wednesday 9
November
The Islington, 1
Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£7 |
7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
works in both
acoustic and electronic media to create works that “blur the boundary between
the human and the electronic machine” (Weird Canada). A classically trained
keyboardist who studied composition and musicology, she has held several
organist and music director positions across Canada since age 13, most recently
as a notable and controversial organist, composer in residence, and director of
the MES mixed choir in Montreal. In 2015, her solo debut Aftertouches was
named a top album of the year by The Wire, The Quietus, NPR, Adhoc, and others.
Coverdale’s work has explored music’s sacred histories while forging its new,
technologically mediated and culturally saturated frontiers: extended harmonic
resolutions typical of Baroque keyboard music frame her approach to part
writing, which she voices with hybrid keyboards, fractured samples and digitally
rendered vocals. Her music appears in films, provocative plays, commercials,
and disturbing historical documentaries. She is active in the studio and live
as a composer, performer, and collaborator (Tim Hecker, LXV).
HAPPY MEALS make spellbinding
experimental pop music. Sounding like the work of Saada Bonaire's long-lost
slacker offspring, debut album ’Apéro' is actually the produce of two
Glasgow-based artists, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, who originally hail from
the Scottish borders. Suzanne sings in a unique mix of French and Scottish,
occasionally sharing the mic with Lewis over the course of six songs taking the
100% Silk/NNF pop aesthetic and psych-dub freedom of Peaking Lights to a more
ambiguous, enchanted headspace. It's all top notch stuff, from the nine minute
celestial sashay of 'Crystal Salutation' through the chiming boogie of 'Altered
Images' to the blown-out dub-pop of 'The Age Of Love', and the Balearic acid of
'Le Voyage’. Brand new EP, ‘Fruit Juice’ sees Happy Meals sharpened and
expanded, taking their tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments
into undiscovered realms glowing with possibility, check it out now through
Night School Records.
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