EarthBall - 'Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4' announced!

 

 

All hail EarthBall!

 The Canadian avant/noise/rock group return this summer with new album ‘Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4’. This is EarthBall plunging to full fathom five, transforming into something rich and strange. Side A captures a thumping performance at Cave12 in Geneva. Frazzled from a white-knuckle alpine descent, the group settles into a hypnotic sprawl, stretching time and form in ruminative cycles. Side B meanwhile presents a scorched excerpt from EarthBall’s crushing performance at Le Guess Who? Festival last winter.

‘Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4’ marks another ascent in EarthBall’s ever-expanding, totemic discography, an ecstatic storm of raw immediacy and unfiltered expression. EarthBall came, conjured and opened the portal! Blink and it’s gone. What was that? Actual Earth Music! Released June 26th via Upset The Rhythm, the album will be available digitally, and as a limited 180g black vinyl pressing. Pre-orders now open from our Bandcamp and all savvy retailers! ‘Live at EKKO’ is available to stream everywhere now too.

EarthBall also have some choice tourdates to share:


EARTHBALL - European dates!

17/04 - Cafe OTO, London, UK (w/ Stewart Lee, CIA Debutante, Split Apex)
18/04 - Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK
19/04 - Blue Moon, Cambridge, UK
20/04 - Cafe OTO, London, UK (w/ Orcutt Shelley Miller)
21/04 - Little Bully, Oxford, UK
22/04 - Old Bus Depot, Nottingham, UK
23/04 - Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK
24/04 - Glad Cafe, Glasgow, UK
25/04 - The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle, UK (w/ Penelope Trappes + Rún)
28/08 - Krankenhaus Festival, Ravenglass, UK
11/09 - Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Vienna, Austria
12/09 - Avant Art, Wroclaw, Poland

 

 

July 1st - Alison Cotton - The Old Church

  

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ALISON COTTON
Wednesday 1 July
The Old Church, Church St, Stoke Newington, London, N16 9ES
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z09756e9c72e

ALISON COTTON is a London-based composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose music centres on viola, harmonium, and layered vocal drones. Originally from Sunderland, she first emerged in the UK underground in bands including Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May, and more recently, The Left Outsides before beginning her solo career in 2018. Her debut, All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre introduced her long-form, place-inspired approach to composition. This was followed with Only Darkness Now and The Portrait You Painted of Me, both acclaimed for their immersive atmospheres and emotional depth. All three albums appeared in The Quietus’ End of Year lists, with Only Darkness Now topping their New Weird Britain chart and The Portrait You Painted of Me was also Folk Record of the Month in The Guardian. 

In 2024, Cotton released Engelchen, a work inspired by the lives of Ida and Louise Cook and their efforts to help refugees escape Nazi Germany. The album deepened her interest in narrative composition, blending historical research with her distinctive drone-based sound. Her records have been released by Rocket Recordings, Feeding Tube Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Bloxham Tapes and Clay Pipe Music. Cotton continues to explore drone, experimental folk, and narrative forms, establishing herself as a singular voice in contemporary experimental music. For this show Cotton will be playing music from a new album and will be accompanied by Mark Nicholas on percussion, harmonium and synths. 

https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com



"Cotton may expand folk’s raw emotions into more avant garde territories, but they still feel possessed by a blood-red muscle memory that goes back centuries". –  The Guardian

“The power of this music is simply awe-inspiring. When Alison Cotton plays, the world stands still”. – The Quietus

“Alison Cotton’s music speaks of places, people and stories not quite of this world, while orchestrating folk and drone elements meticulously, as if following an arcane ritual” – The Wire

“Her exquisite voice calls to mind both the chill of the best British folk…and the psychedelic detail of Occitanian traditional song” – Uncut Magazine

“Some of the most moving, powerful music you’re likely to hear this year” – NARC Magazine