Thursday, 23 March 2017

Wolf Eyes tomorrow, plus Mary Ocher coming soon!



Hey there!
Wolf Eyes are playing for us tomorrow at Manor House’s ExFed Warehouse (behind New River Studios). We’ll be celebrating the release of the band’s brand new album entitled ‘Undertow’, out tomorrow on their imprint Lower Floor Music. We’ll have copies of the album for sale at the show accompanied by a special fold-out A2 poster/zine and a bonus disc of a lost Wolf Eyes album to boot.
Joining Wolf Eyes for this raging evening will be Mumdance with a special modular improv set and the whirlwind of thrashing sound known as Guttersnipe. If that wasn’t already an overflowing cup there will also be a hypnogogic light machine installation to lose yourself within and a selection of venerated DJs throwing down all the best songs.
Doors will open from 8pm with tickets being sold on the door for £12, plus live music will kick off around 8.45pm. Read on for all the particulars, including our full listing for Mary Ocher’s upcoming London concert too.
 
Also, this week we announced that Portuguese dream punk sisters Pega Monstro have a brand new album entitled Casa de Cima planned for release with Upset The Rhythm on June 2nd. You can listen to the immense 'Partir a Loica' taken from the album below. Loud & Quiet just premiered the track with Maria from the band adding:

“’Partir a Loica’ is a Portuguese expression meaning to shake things up (literally to break all the dishes), to take a fiery U-turn on a path that has been misunderstood by those in power for instance.

Casa de Cima by Pega Monstro is available to pre-order now on LP and CD!

 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
WOLF EYES - ‘Undertow’ Album launch
MUMDANCE
GUTTERSNIPE
DJ sets from:
ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse Heroique/Ancient Monarchy)
Paco (La Vida Es Un Mus) 
General Echo Sound System 
Arcola B2B TFTD
Friday 24 March
EXFED, Unit 4, 199 Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
WOLF EYES are the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Wolf Eyes dropped a behemoth of a record last year with 'I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces' on Jack White's Third Man Records, but this time they are switching things up in more ways than one for their forthcoming 'Undertow' album. The Detroit dark ambient sculptors are launching a new imprint called Lower Floor Music, and the album will be the first release on the label. The first foray into the new album is the title track, which is self-described as a "sea-bottom R&B sound lurch" featuring ambient synth and haunting spoken vocals. This show acts as an official album launch, celebrating the release of 'Undertow' into the world.
MUMDANCE has built a reputation as one of the world’s most inventive DJs and producers, drawing from sounds from across the world but always putting his own unique spin on them. His early days as a producer saw him collaborate with big names from both Europe (Brodinski, Jammer, Skepta) and further afield, such as Mexican legend Toy Selectah, Brazilian groups Bondo Do Role and Banda Uó, and later Egyptian mahraganat icon Sadat. In 2013, following a two-year hiatus from original music, Mumdance released his most critically acclaimed music to date. His 2013 mixtape Twists & Turns was named FACT Magazine’s best album of the year, while his collaborations with Novelist, ‘Take Time’ and ‘1 Sec’ (released on legendary label XL Recordings), mark two of the biggest anthems from grime's recent revival, and topped end of year charts from Resident Advisor, Mixmag, FACT, Dummy, Noisey and more. Recently Mumdance has also launched Different Circles, his record label with Logos that specialises in ‘weightless’ - an already-influential combination of grime, techno, ambient music, sound design and more, and collaborated with artists such as Micachu, Pinch, AJ Tracey and Nozinja. For this performance Mumdance will present a new set of modular synth workouts.
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.
 

Upset The Rhythm presents…
MARY OCHER
BAMBOO
MOONBOW
Wednesday 5 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
MARY OCHER was born Mariya Ocheretianskaya in Moscow in 1986, she moved to Israel with her family at age four, then to Berlin at 20. In 2011 she caught the attention of the inimitable King Khan at a karaoke bar (he also lives in Berlin), and she recorded what's still her most recent full-length of new material, 2013's Eden, at his Moon Studios. He's not her only famous fan either: Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs contributed a quote to Ocher's press kit. "Mary Ocher gives me the chills," she says. "She frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately self-possessed". Her DIY roots and anything-goes aesthetic notwithstanding, Ocher is obviously too well-connected to qualify as an outsider. Ocher's songs are a diverse bunch ranging from ghostly noise, sad but jaunty piano ballads, frisky strumming, echoing ersatz funk to chintzy drum machine workouts with vacuum-cleaner synth. Ocher herself seems to have as many faces as a vaudeville performer: her multifarious singing leaps without warning from unhinged keening to warped drawling or from wobbly muttering to blustery declaiming. Forthcoming album, 'The West Against The People' has been produced with Faust's Hans Joachim Irmler and also features tracks with Ocher's drummers (duo Your Government) as well as collaborations with avant-garde legends Die Todliche Doris, Felix Kubin and Julia Kent of Rasputina/Antony and The Johnsons. It's out March 10 on krautrock label Klangbad.
BAMBOO is the sublime project from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo’s second studio album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of 50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow and rage. ‘The Dragon Flies Away’ presents its story in two acts and is now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric / artwork sheet. Horwood’s evocative paintings are given centre stage with the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making the journey all the more immersive.
MOONBOW is the sonic brainchild of London multimedia artist Eleanor Hardwick. Growing up in the countryside on the peripheries of one of the UK’s many forgotten commuter towns, she channels themes of manmade dystopias’ invasion on natural spheres into her audio and visual artistic output. Such outputs served as a refuge from growing up in a place where not much happened and not many people connected with her - whilst cyberspace became both a platform for connecting with other lost souls, and a window into a world that she witnessed elsewhere was slowly politically and environmentally decaying. i-D described her songs as “taking influence from William Orbit-era Madonna guitar and Kate Bush vocals, brought right up to date with layers upon layers of synths and glitchy samples”.
 
Thanks lots for reading! See you tomorrow!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS  
WOLF EYES - ‘Undertow’ Album launch
MUMDANCE
GUTTERSNIPE
DJ sets from:
ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse Heroique/Ancient Monarchy)
Paco (La Vida Es Un Mus) 
General Echo Sound System 
Arcola B2B Too Fucked To Dance
Friday 24 March
EXFED, Unit 4, 199 Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
MARY OCHER
BAMBOO
MOONBOW
Wednesday 5 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
RAT COLUMNS
HONEY JOY
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
OOIOO
RATTLE
Thursday 20 April
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
DANIEL BACHMAN
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Monday 1 May
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £7 | TICKETS
EX-CULT
Wednesday 3 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
DUCKTAILS
JAMES FERRARO
SPENCER CLARK
Friday 12 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
XIU XIU
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 |  TICKETS
PRIESTS
TRASH KIT
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
NOTS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
TERRY
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
NAP EYES
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

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