UPSET THE RHYTHM: New Bamboo CD, Hexa show announced, Xmas party details and Tome Records Record Fair!

Good morning!

Two great bits of news for you, firstly our Bamboo ‘Prince Pansori Priestess’ CDs are now in stock with their amazing ‘Live at Café OTO’ bonus tracks. Bamboo make music that’s extremely vivid and poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between a flawlessly resonant folk cadence and some decidedly pristine synth pop production. Their wonderful debut album is available now for the first time on CD accompanied by a live album of their performance from our UTR label showcase at Café OTO earlier this year. Check out our webshop for more details!

Secondly, this week we proudly announced a show in February for Jamie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu) and Lawrence English who will be combining forces as HEXA. HEXA is a new project exploring the physicality of sound and its abilities to infiltrate, abrade and occupy the body. Premiered at the David Lynch: Between Two Worlds retrospective at GOMA museum in Brisbane, Australia in April 2015, HEXA is a sonic response to Lynch’s Factory Photographs, a collection of images Lynch took of disused factories and the ruins of industry in the USA, Poland, Germany and the UK. Using the factory photographs as both a literal and metaphoric source, their performance draws root from the texture of Lynch’s images, the imagined and actual spaces, and the spectral histories contained within them. The effect is like “cascading low frequency pulses and tectonic plates of sound, suspended in cavernous cathedral-like spaces.” Tickets are onsale now for this one off event at The Forge!

We’ll leave you with the full listing for our final show of the year, an Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party coinciding with our 13^th birthday too, one week tomorrow! Taking place on Saturday 17^th December at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club we have a rich pageant of entertainments planned including live performances from Rattle, Ravioli Me Away, Guttersnipe, Blood Sport and Apostille! With so many of our favourite UK bands performing all under one roof this concert promises to be the cherry on top of the others from this year, or the star on top of your tree if you will. Full details on everything to follow.

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Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party featuring…

APOSTILLE

BLOOD SPORT

GUTTERSNIPE

RAVIOLI ME AWAY

RATTLE

Saturday 17 December

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB 

7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/379392

APOSTILLE is the recording and performing project of Night School honcho Michael Kasparis (of Please and The Lowest Form). Having started as a home-damaged pop music, Apostille has grown into a live-wire synth punk prospect that bridges physicality with emotive bleed. Insistent flickering beats hold down a sturdy framework for Kasparis' clouds of echoed vocals and synth cluster quests. Sometimes Michael's voice soars above the music, hanging their like an apparition, other times the cloaked notes surge forwards, bouncing between distorted handclaps, wonky basslines and oblique incantations to deliriously wondrous effect. Apostille’s debut album ‘Powerless’ was released last year through Night School, look out 2017 as a new album is well on the way!

http://apostille.bandcamp.com/

BLOOD SPORT formed in Sheffield in 2010, and ever since the trio have forged an arresting sound practice from within the city’s industrious art/music community. Their blistering guitar dynamics and pointed-yet-pointillist lyrics meshing into rough-house, techno-gilded polyrhythms, with an untrammelled urgency pervading their tightly wound sound and all that surrounds and informs it. Now the band is set to surge and attack. 2016 will see the fruition of a year’s work in both the live and recorded realms, with new record Axe Laid To The Root released on Blast First Petite following three EPs and a strong debut LP Life In Units, all released on DIY labels – Tye Die Tapes, the band’s own Hybrid Vigour Records and via The Audacious Art Experiment, the record-release wing of the independent arts hub they co-run in Sheffield. Blood Sport have a relentless, heavily structuralist live show, a wall of noise and rhythm delivered with ferocious intensity, girding and grinding the audience into movement. With a background playing squats, raves, art happenings and clubs, the band has increasingly sequenced their set for the dancefloor.
http://bloodsportband.tumblr.com/

GUTTERSNIPE are a Leeds drums/guitar duo who dive straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis – imagine the esoteric mayhem of Angel Blood combined with the venue-destroying psychic power of early Boredoms and Naked City, and you ain’t even close. Comprising the duo of Xylocopa Violacea and Bdallophytum, if Guttersnipe don’t blow away your cobwebs, nothing will.

https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/releases

RAVIOLI ME AWAY are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and Alice Theobald and more recently, have recruited Monika Kroll as an intermittent member. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy, dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with stylistically schizophrenic motifs span all-known past, present and future human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.” This November, RMA will release their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The Rhythm.

http://raviolimeaway.co.uk/

RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, focusing almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days when we’re saturated with so much music. Their live performances are at once hypnotic, monastic and danceable, plus their debut self-titled album was released this Summer on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You.

https://www.facebook.com/Rattle-196974100379051/

One last thing to mention, Upset The Rhythm will also be selling records and related wares tomorrow at DIY Space For London as part of Tome Records Record Fair from 11am - 6pm, hopefully see you there too. Lots of great labels involved, plus Joey's kitchen will be open supplying food/drinks throughout! Thanks as always for your time!

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