Wednesday, 3 January 2018
WATCH - Pega Monstro - 'Fado da Estrela do Ouro' VIDEO
Brand new video from... Pega Monstro for their song 'Fado da Estrela do Ouro'!
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Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt in duo and solo configurations this March in London!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO
DUO SHOW
Saturday 17 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/426645
SOLO SHOW
Sunday 18 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/426647
CHRIS CORSANO and BILL ORCUTT have spent the last five years flaying eardrums and blowing minds worldwide with a wildly polyrhythmic, high-register wail that splits the difference between rock, noise and jazz. As a co-founder of free-punk demolition crew Harry Pussy, Orcutt inspired entire genres of noise rock, and a decade after Harry Pussy’s demise, re-emerged as a solo performer, creating a singular guitar lexicon suited for both discursive improvisation and cracked reinvention of the American songbook. Chris Corsano is the rim-batterer of choice for some of the heaviest contemporary purveyors of both jazz (Evan Parker, Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee) and rock (Björk, Sir Richard Bishop, Jim O'Rourke), and is a formidable solo performer in his own right. When playing as a duo their avant drum-and-guitar improvisations provide the illusion of chaos. The longer you listen however to the onslaught of drum rolls and pock-marked notes, the more the communication (and, what’s more, control) become abundantly clear. Their explosive mayhem has been documented on Orcutt’s Palilalia label over the course of several live releases, most recently on the double LP "Live at Various/Various Live". Their first ever studio recording is scheduled for release later this year.
https://youtu.be/9kMo7hrR5qQ
CHRIS CORSANO is arguably the most riotosly energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz, for this rare solo set he strips things back to just the bare minimum. His amplified hi-hat set-up first debuted at the No Fun Fest in 2009 and has resurfaced only rarely since. Tiny Mix Tapes described the performance as “nothing short of hi-hat surgery. The hats stood alone, contact-mic'd, amped, and ravaged with distortion; Corsano tore in with sticks, mallets, and metal rods, prying tones from the bowels no one knew existed”. His work with Mick Flower, Paul Flaherty, and others is well known; alone, though, Corsano answers to no one, and his clinic realigned every facile give-the-drummer-some heuristic underwriting our approach to percussive or non-tonal technique.
http://cor-sano.com/
BILL ORCUTT has been developing an open source computer music program called "I Dropped My Phone the Screen Cracked" since 2014 and has employed it to record two recent LPs, 2016's "Cracked Music" and 2017's "An Account of the Crimes of Peter Thiel and His Subsequent Arrest, Trial and Execution" which Wire magazine described as "maddening", "hypnotic" and "oddly pleasant." For this solo performance, Orcutt will present the UK premiere of a new algorithmic piece for Cracked entitled 'Neu Bros/OK Phone/Rural Beatles'.
http://palilalia.com/
Friday, 29 December 2017
Radio show - Episode 4!
Hello 2017!
Before the year bows out, here’s the fourth episode of our radio show for CAMP. 120 minutes of lots of our favourite music from Arthur Lee Harper to Yura Yura Teikoku, including some recent live snippets from Richard Dawson and Spirit Fest, enjoy!
Upset The Rhythm - Episode 4
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01. La Dusseldorf - White Overalls
02. Soft Drinks - Pop Stars in Their Pyjamas
03. The Green Child - Her Majesty II
04. Bunny & The Lakers - Cops on Parade
05. Tickawinda - A Lyke Wake Dirge
06. Colin Thompson - Brisk, Young, Lively Lad
07. Richard Dawson - Live at Upset The Rhythm
08. Crack Cloud - Swish Swash
09. Yura Yura Teikoku - Soft Death
10. No Babies - The Weight
11. Nosferatu - Spectator
12. World Domination Enterprises - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
13. Reiko Kudo - We Maybe
14. Arthur Lee Harper - Valentine Gray
15. Spirit Fest - Live at Upset The Rhythm
16. Greenfield Leisure - L’Orange
17. David West With Teardrops - Cherry On Willow
18. Bobby Brown - The Boy a Sailor
19. Allen Toussaint - Electricity
20. Richard Dawson - Live at Upset The Rhythm
21. Roscoe Mitchell - Sing
22. Sibylle Baier - Wim
23. Donovan - Pebble And The Man
24. Gimmer Nicholson - Venus Cumulus
25. Dr. Strangely Strange - A Tale of Two Orphanages
26. Rexy - Send in the Clones
27. Superstar & Star - No More Sorrow
28. Upp - Thursday
29. Colin Potter - Behind You
30. Buchenfeld - Fragments
31. Morton Feldman - Three Voices (for Joan La Barbara) 9. Legato
32. Chain & The Gang - I Hate Winners
Thursday, 21 December 2017
The Green Child - 'Traveler' premieres!
I think Chris De Burgh said it best...
"This lovely music went trembling through the ground,
And many were wakened on hearing that sound,
And travelers…"
And many were wakened on hearing that sound,
And travelers…"
Sunday, 17 December 2017
Richard Dawson & Normil Hawaiians play London next Wednesday, plus news on The Green Child album!
Seasonal salutations!
We’re getting very near our final show of the year now, this coming Wednesday we have rather excitingly… Richard Dawson & Normil Hawaiians both playing at Islington Assembly Hall.
Richard released our favourite album of the year, whilst Normil
Hawaiians’ 1982 debut just saw a timely re-issue through Upset The
Rhythm this very month. It’ll be a meeting of musical minds that’s for
sure. As we’re down to the last few dozen tickets now, it’s well worth
picking one up in advance if you haven’t already as it will be the
perfect way to see off 2017 in style.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
RICHARD DAWSON
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS
RICHARD DAWSON can never been
accused by listeners of a lack of artistic ambition. Whether they got on
at the last stop - the 4 track Tyneside-Trout-Mask-through a-Vic and
Bob-filter of 'Nothing Important' - or earlier in the journey, with 'The
Glass Trunk's visceral song cycle or 'The Magic Bridge's sombre revels.
Devotees of his earlier recordings will be at once intrigued by and
slightly fearful of the prospect of a record that could make those three
landmark releases look like formative work. 'Peasant' is that album,
released on June 2nd through Weird World / Domino. From its first
beguilingly muted fanfare to its spectacular climax exploring a Dark
Ages masseuse's dangerous fascination with a mysterious artefact called
the Pin of Quib, it will grab newcomers to Dawson's work by the scruff
of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of
life-long allegiance.
Driven forward by exhilarating guitar
flurries, Qawwali handclaps and bursts of choral ferocity, 'Peasant's
eleven tracks sustain a momentum worthy of the lyrics' urgent subject
matter. Dawson describes the themes of these songs as "Families
struggling, families being broken up by circumstance, and - how do you
keep it together? In the face of all of these horrors that life, or some
system of life, is throwing at you?" The fact that these meticulously
wrought narratives all unfold in the pre-mediaeval North Eastern kingdom
of Bryneich - "any time from about 450AD to 780AD, after the withdrawal
of the Roman Empire"- only makes their contemporary relevance more
enduring.
Dawson's objective was to create "A
panorama of a society which is at odds with itself and has great
sickness in it, and perhaps doesn't take responsibility - blame going in
all the wrong directions". But encountering 'Peasant's captivating
sequence of occupational archetypes ('Herald', 'Ogre', 'Weaver',
'Scientist'), listeners might find themselves wondering if these
multitudes could somehow be contained with one person. Dawson has
already supported the release of 'Peasant' with a full UK tour - his
first featuring a full live band. After wowing audiences at St John On
Bethnal Green this June, it's a pleasure to welcome Richard back for an
Xmas show with live band to play the esteemed Islington Assembly Hall.
NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take
on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving
out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within
the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys
towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the
weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left
behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous
faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were
all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild
and redolent new dimensions.
At this very moment the group existed
solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the shadow
of Foel Studios in the Welsh hills, sharing everything together and
working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had
discovered between them. This is how the band's debut album 'More Wealth
Than Money' was formed, through trial and close listening, through
cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts
of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep
began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were
creating something unique. 'More Wealth Than Money' will be re-issued
lavishly on double LP this December through Upset The Rhythm, they are
celebrating this release by performing t this special Xmas show at
Islington Assembly Hall too.
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See you next week, thanks for your time!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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RICHARD DAWSON
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS
MOOR MOTHER
NO HOME
Wednesday 10 January
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
DAVID NANCE
Monday 5 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
SHOPPING
Tuesday 6 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
GUN OUTFIT
Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
CHAIN AND THE GANG
Monday 26 February
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
SHANNON LAY
Wednesday 7 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Monday 2 April
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
8pm | £11 | TICKETS
NO AGE
Wednesday 4 April
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £12 | TICKETS
JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu)
ERIC CHENAUX
Monday 9 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 10 May
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
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Friday, 15 December 2017
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society will visit London next April!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Monday 2 April
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
8pm | £11 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/425607
Joshua Abrams developed his voice in the rich ferment of the 1990s Chicago music world, participating heavily across the city’s jazz, experimental & rock scenes. He co-founded the ‘back porch minimalist’ band Town & Country &, with Matana Roberts & Chad Taylor, the trio Sticks & Stones. In a very busy two decades Abrams recorded & toured with a remarkable range of artists including extended engagements with Fred Anderson, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Hamid Drake, Theaster Gates, Neil Michael Hagerty, Nicole Mitchell, Jeff Parker, Mike Reed, Matana Roberts, & The Roots. Abrams appears on over one hundred recordings. A film composer, Abrams has scored the music for five feature length films including the award-winning films Life Itself, The Interrupters and The Trials of Muhammad Ali.
Since 2010 Joshua Abrams has toured North America & Europe with a shifting-line up of musicians as 'Natural Information Society’. The group uses traditional & electric instrumentation to build long-form intricately psychedelic environments, composed & improvised, joining the hypnotic qualities of the Gnawan guimbri to a wide range of contemporary musics & methodologies including jazz, minimalism & krautrock. The band's album, Magnetoception (eremite), was selected by The Wire Magazine as the #3 record of 2015 & by Pitchfork as the #2 experimental record of the year. Current & former band members include Lisa Alvarado, Jason Adasiewicz, Mikel Avery, Ben Boye, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Emmett Kelly, Artur Majewski, Nick Mazzarella, Jeff Parker, Frank Rosaly, Jason Stein, Kuba Suchar, Nori Tanaka & Chad Taylor. In 2015, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas collaborated on ‘Automaginary,’ (Drag City). Their latest album, 'Simultonality' continues NIS's exploration of stasis, continuity, repetition and layering. 'Simultonality' was released back in April, 2017 on eremite records & Glitterbeat.
http://naturalinformationsociety.com/
Thursday, 14 December 2017
LISTEN: Bamboo - Stay Another Day
Let the bells ring out for Bamboo, here they are with their festive take on East 17's classic Xmas anthem, enjoy!
Monday, 11 December 2017
Jamie Stewart & Eric Chenaux to play London next April!
Upset
The Rhythm presents…
JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu)
ERIC CHENAUX
Monday 9 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/425102
JAMIE STEWART has spent 2017 showing how skilled he is at multi-tasking, having
toured the most recent Xiu Xiu album 'Forever', piled on the sonic pressure
with Lawrence English as HEXA and having paid final homage to The Music Of Twin
Peaks. 2018 sees that all change with Jamie committing to some rare solo
performances. The format is simple: Jamie, electric guitar and voice,
reducing the Xiu Xiu songs you know and love down to their most fragile husk
state. As the principle songwriter, musician and
vocalist behind avant-pop legends Xiu Xiu, Jamie Stewart is very much one of
UTR's favourite artists. Jamie draws heavily from wildly disparate sources -
cacophonous noise, gamelan, folk and the lush hooks of 80s UK post-punk, to
name a few - while his tortured lyrics and anguished delivery consistently deal
with the morose, suspected and the taboo. Expect new material, unusual covers
and favourite tracks from the Xiu Xiu back catalogue, making for a truly
memorable experience.
ERIC CHENAUX is an adventurous guitarist, singer and composer based in Paris. Having
been an active player in Toronto experimental music circles with a host of
group and collaborative works, Chenaux has more recently amassed a body of solo
work across five albums on the Constellation label, centering around his
dextrous, fried guitar playing as juxtaposed with a gorgeously lyrical vocal
style. An ingenious recombinant use of traditional folk, psychedelic pop and
consort music in earlier albums has over time evolved into a wholly
uncategorisable form of balladry, shot through with a singular vernacular of
guitar improvisation.
The Green Child - debut album announced!
Noisey just helped us announce out next record, The Green Child's self-titled debut album, by premiering colossal closing statement 'Destroyer'!
The Green Child is the long distance musical
collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands,
Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They
started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on
a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few
years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in
Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was
inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The
Green Child.
With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw
their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly
retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy
drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs.
Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout
the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie,
electronic concoctions.
‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent,
beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a
sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green
oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive
vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling
chimes and stately use of space.
The Green Child are adept at
atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail
to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’
(featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in
evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant
dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing
track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled
with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on
the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project
itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the
unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?
‘The Green Child’ is due for release on
January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl,
accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.
Artist: The Green Child
Title: The Green Child
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR102
Formats: LP / DIGITAL
Running Time: 39 mins
Release Date: Friday 12 January
Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer
Friday, 8 December 2017
Normil Hawaiians - 'More Wealth Than Money' released today!
Alongside the re-mastered original
double-album, our new re-issue includes a further full-length collection
of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
RICHARD DAWSON
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS
RICHARD DAWSON can never been
accused by listeners of a lack of artistic ambition. Whether they got on
at the last stop - the 4 track Tyneside-Trout-Mask-through a-Vic and
Bob-filter of 'Nothing Important' - or earlier in the journey, with 'The
Glass Trunk's visceral song cycle or 'The Magic Bridge's sombre revels.
Devotees of his earlier recordings will be at once intrigued by and
slightly fearful of the prospect of a record that could make those three
landmark releases look like formative work. 'Peasant' is that album,
released on June 2nd through Weird World / Domino. From its first
beguilingly muted fanfare to its spectacular climax exploring a Dark
Ages masseuse's dangerous fascination with a mysterious artefact called
the Pin of Quib, it will grab newcomers to Dawson's work by the scruff
of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of
life-long allegiance.
Driven forward by exhilarating guitar
flurries, Qawwali handclaps and bursts of choral ferocity, 'Peasant's
eleven tracks sustain a momentum worthy of the lyrics' urgent subject
matter. Dawson describes the themes of these songs as "Families
struggling, families being broken up by circumstance, and - how do you
keep it together? In the face of all of these horrors that life, or some
system of life, is throwing at you?" The fact that these meticulously
wrought narratives all unfold in the pre-mediaeval North Eastern kingdom
of Bryneich - "any time from about 450AD to 780AD, after the withdrawal
of the Roman Empire"- only makes their contemporary relevance more
enduring.
Dawson's objective was to create "A
panorama of a society which is at odds with itself and has great
sickness in it, and perhaps doesn't take responsibility - blame going in
all the wrong directions". But encountering 'Peasant's captivating
sequence of occupational archetypes ('Herald', 'Ogre', 'Weaver',
'Scientist'), listeners might find themselves wondering if these
multitudes could somehow be contained with one person. Dawson has
already supported the release of 'Peasant' with a full UK tour - his
first featuring a full live band. After wowing audiences at St John On
Bethnal Green this June, it's a pleasure to welcome Richard back for an
Xmas show with live band to play the esteemed Islington Assembly Hall.
NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take
on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving
out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within
the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys
towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the
weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left
behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous
faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were
all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild
and redolent new dimensions.
At this very moment the group existed
solely for the music, living together in a small cottage in the shadow
of Foel Studios in the Welsh hills, sharing everything together and
working long days to nurture and then burnish the music they had
discovered between them. This is how the band's debut album 'More Wealth
Than Money' was formed, through trial and close listening, through
cultivation and patient growth. Of course there were significant amounts
of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings, but when the sheep
began to march in time to the music Normil Hawaiians knew they were
creating something unique. 'More Wealth Than Money' will be re-issued
lavishly on double LP this December through Upset The Rhythm, they are
celebrating this release by performing t this special Xmas show at
Islington Assembly Hall too.
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Have a fantastic weekend, thanks for reading!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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RICHARD DAWSON
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS
MOOR MOTHER
NO HOME
Wednesday 10 January
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
DAVID NANCE
Monday 5 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
SHOPPING
Tuesday 6 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
GUN OUTFIT
Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
CHAIN AND THE GANG
Monday 26 February
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 10 May
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
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