Upset The Rhythm presents…
DANIEL BACHMAN
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Monday
1 May
Cafe
OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm |
£7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/389651
DANIEL
BACHMAN is a 6-string and lap guitar player from
Fredericksburg, Virginia currently living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From
2008 to present he’s been releasing material of almost exclusively an
instrumental nature while touring everywhere from Istanbul to Los Angeles. He
has been playing what he describes as “psychedelic appalachia” since he was a
teenager, releasing small run editions of tapes, CDs and LPs for the past three
years, with a sound that evolved from drones and banjos to a now guitar
centered focus. Touring off and on since the age of 17, Bachman has managed to
cover thorough ground across the US, sharing stages with like-minded folk such
as fellow Fredericksburg native Jack Rose, for whom he fashioned the artwork
for the posthumous release of ‘Luck In The Valley’. His newest effort is himself-titled
LP on Three Lobed Recordings, his eighth solo album to date. It’s his most thoughtful release to
date, filled with mindful reflection and confident patience. Even during his
snappiest songs, Bachman takes time to consider where he is and where he’s
going. When his pace starts to rush, he pulls back, ringing out a long chord or
even stopping completely to avoid just going with the flow. Bachman takes the listener on an aural journey
through the back roads of the foothills of the blue-ridge to calm coastal
waters.
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer and guitarist from
Durham, North Carolina. His self-titled
debut record, produced by and featuring William Tyler,
transmuted ten arcane folk and blues tunes into vibey cosmic laments and
crooked rambles. Jake Xerxes (yes, that’s his real middle name, after Georgia
potter D.X.
Gordy) grew up in Columbus, Georgia,
son of Fred
C. Fussell, a folklorist, curator, and photographer. Fred’s
fieldwork took him, often with young Jake in tow, across the Southeast documenting
traditional vernacular culture, which included recording blues and old-time
musicians with fellow folklorists and recordists George Mitchell
and Art
Rosenbaum (which led Jake to music, and to some of the songs
herein) and collaborating with American Indian artists (which led Jake
eventually to his graduate research on Choctaw fiddlers.) Fussell’s new album,
‘What in the Natural World’ on
Paradise of Bachelors takes the form of transmogrified folk/blues
koans. This time these radiant ancient tunes tone several shades darker while
amplifying their absurdist humour, illuminating our national, and psychic,
predicaments.
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