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Hello everyone!
Firstly, thank you all for coming to see Apostille, The Smashing
Times, Martin Newell and of course The Make Up recently, your attendance
makes all these amazing times possible! We are indebted.
Our next Upset The Rhythm events will take place at Cafe OTO on
Tuesday/Wednesday next week, where we're beyond fortunate to have
Japanese underground music legend Phew grace the stage for two nights. We've put together a really stacked residency, Alison Cotton and Me Lost Me will perform on the Tuesday, whilst Ana da Silva and Sunroof will both present sets on Wednesday. Total dream-come-true scenarios.
Tickets are flying, so please buy them in advance to avoid missing out, live music starting at 8pm both evenings FYI.
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Read on for everything you need to know about next week's double
bill, alongside our full show listings for our other October concerts.
These include Lande Hekt, Supermilk and Charley Stone's Actual Band at The Lexington on October 23rd, Protomartyr and Es at the Electric Ballroom on Oct 26th and Loopsel, JJulius and Cate Kennan at MOTH Club on Oct 27th. Variety in all things.
What a way to see out the month!
Lucky London!! Enjoy...
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Upset The Rhythm presents… PHEW
ALISON COTTON
ME LOST ME
CHIARA LEE & FREDDIE MURPHY (DJ SET)Tuesday 17 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ne228acb66c8+ PHEW
ANA DA SILVA
SUNROOF
CHIARA LEE & FREDDIE MURPHY (DJ SET)Wednesday 18 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/t6505dd3f0dc PHEW
is an avant-garde vocalist, electronics innovator and post-punk artist.
Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt
Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a
solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in
1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay
of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, ‘Our
Likeness’, was released on MUTE (recently reissued), again at Conny’s
studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende
Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s,
she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic
music, and has gained international recognition as a forward facing
electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da
Silva (Raincoats), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and others. Phew's
expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time
via Disciples last year, whilst Mute recently released her stunning
record ‘New Decade’; a stark, haunted album, populated by voices that
intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese, against a backdrop of
fractured, dubbed-out electronics. https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music ALISON COTTON
is a viola player based in London working in composition and
improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was
released in 2018 firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes, followed by a
vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019
her longform piece, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates’ was released on the
Australian label, Longform Editions. As well as the viola, she uses an
array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder,
omnichord, shruti box and piano) to create long, haunting folk drones.
Cotton’s new album ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’, is a 6-track record
– her first for Rocket Recordings. ‘Mumurations Over the Moor’ is a
wordless piece of layered vocals, drifting like fog towards a sunset
over the green undulations of North East England. ‘The Last Wooden Ship’
evokes the shipyards of Sunderland, laced with piano and percussion
events, while her voice calls out like a siren urging listeners to a
rocky demise. https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com ME LOST ME
delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a
beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that
playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist
Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and
improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo
endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed
North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s
music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its
bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's
Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise". Me Lost Me’s incredible
new album ‘RPG’ is due for release on July 7th via Upset The Rhythm. https://www.melostme.com/ ANA DA SILVA
is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band
The Raincoats. Across four daring full-length records, The Raincoats
helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it - an act
of raw expression, not any one sound. The Raincoats have offered
creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists.
They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk
context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and
innovative noise guitar playing. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984,
Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens, This Heat’s Charles Hayward and
choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis. In 2005, Ana released her solo debut,
‘The Lighthouse’ - a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant
experiments in electronic indie-pop. Ana has also collaborated with Phew
on an extraordinary album ‘Island’ released by Newhere Music in 2018. http://www.anadasilva.net/ SUNROOF
is the pairing of Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones. Their new album,
‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is available via the Parallel
Series of Mute. ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is a set of
eight improvised modular electronic music instrument pieces recorded at
the duo’s respective home studios. The recording sessions followed
release of their debut from 2021 but where Vol. 1 was the result of four
decades of friendship and collaboration, this new album came together
in a relatively short space of time. Recorded in the same spirit as
their previous sessions - with no pre-planning and no rehearsal - they
met up with “unpatched” modular systems, and began improvising. Without
any of the parameters they followed in the first sessions, the duo
allowed the pieces to expand naturally, keeping editing to a minimum. https://mute.ffm.to/sunroof-emivol2 CHIARA LEE & FREDDIE MURPHY (DJ SET)
are two artists and curators based in Torino, Italy. With the moniker
Father Murphy they released a series of concept albums and performed
extensively across the world. Their DJ sets often include avant church
music, droney soundscapes, atmospheric noise, sound sketches, cracklings
electronics and left-field beats. https://murphy---lee.tumblr.com/ |
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
LANDE HEKT
SUPERMILK
CHARLEY STONE’S ACTUAL BANDMonday 23 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/s8612f0fbfaf LANDE HEKT
crafted politically aware, heart-on-sleeve, punchy yet tender,
punk-flecked songs with her band Muncie Girls, more recently she turned
her hand to an even more personal songwriting approach by writing a solo
record - 2021’s Going To Hell. The debut full-length was released via
queer and trans run independent label Get Better Records and documented
her experience coming out as gay. It set out her stall as a solo artist
with supreme storytelling abilities and a knack for understatedly
luminous melodies. Lande’s music sits beautifully alongside such artists
as The Wedding Present, The Replacements and Sharon Van Etten. Lande
met 2022 armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and
musings on her life for her second album House Without a View. This
record continued to explore ideas of queer identity, as well as her
changing relationship with gender, dealing with childhood trauma, and
confronting the isolation and period of adjustment brought by the
pandemic. This year Lande Hekt continues her poignant musical
introspection with two new singles ‘Pottery Class’ and ‘Axis’.
Bittersweet ‘Pottery Class’ captures the feeling of yearning for someone
and longing for a space to share with that person. In the song, Lande
reflects: “we could move to the city, go to shows and join a pottery
class / But you’d always be overwhelmed by everything that moves too
fast / I don’t care where we live, I just want you back.” https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/SUPERMILK
is a band from North London comprising members of Doe, Cheerbleederz,
Nervus and Onsind. FFO Guided by Voices, XTC, Bis, The Rentals, Bob
Mould. https://supermilk4u.bandcamp.comCHARLEY STONE
is an English multi-instrumentalist musician based in London. From 2007
to the present Stone has both performed solo and played with a number
of artists including the Priscillas, the New Royal Family/the Famous
Cocks, Abba Stripes, Deptford Beach Babes, Charlotte Hatherley, Ye Nuns,
Joanne Joanne and Salad. In addition, Stone currently plays in the
Fallen Women, Desperate Journalist, and Sleeper. For this show Charley
will be joined by her full band! https://charleystone.bandcamp.com/ |
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Upset The Rhythm presents… PROTOMARTYR
ESThursday 26 October Electric Ballroom 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 7pm-11pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hca4d1d3c365 PROTOMARTYR
are a post-punk band from Detroit who have mastered the art of evoking
place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the
x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage.
Protomartyr—vocalist Joe Casey, guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex
Leonard, and bassist Scott Davidson—have become synonymous with caustic,
impressionistic assemblages of politics and poetry, the literal and
oblique. The group’s forthcoming sixth album, recorded at Sonic
Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, is called Formal Growth In The Desert. And
though frontman Joe Casey did have a humbling experience staring at
awe-inspiring Sonoran rock formations and reckoning with his own
smallness in the scheme of things – as recounted in the single
“Elimination Dances” - the title is not necessarily a nod to the sandy
expanses of the southwest. Detroit, too, is like a desert. “The desert
is more of a metaphor or symbol,” Casey says, “of emotional deserts, or a
place or time that seems to lack life.” The desert brings an
existential awareness that is ultimately internal. Formal Growth In The
Desert is a 12-song testament to “getting on with life,” even when it
feels impossibly hard. “I was trying to find a way forward after some
pretty heavy things, without lyrically resorting to, Oh my god, my life
sucks,” Casey says. “I was trying to see what was beyond the trouble.”
The titles of the two opening songs—the moody “Make Way” followed by the
charging ennui of “For Tomorrow”—complete that thought. A filmic
sensibility is manifest in the band’s dynamic, spacious sound and
Casey’s storytelling, too, whether he’s critiquing ominous
techno-capitalism or processing aging, the future, and the possibility
of love. http://protomartyrband.com/ ES
returned this April with an incredible new EP called ‘Fantasy’. A
four-track contact-high anxiety amid fact and facsimile, this release
attempts to define a sound that still resonates in an increasingly
confused public theatre, where cerebral dreams manifest in corrupt
fascination. Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later, disco-inspired
releases from PIL, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s
established disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter,
poppy, and danceable tones. These stylistically unwind in transition
with the increasingly claustrophobic pieces like ‘Too Late’ and
‘Swallowed Whole’, syncopating a parallel design of the frantic and the
fashionable. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and
self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. Inside
‘Fantasy’ we visualize our own estrangement, and it is only when this
mirror fades that we find the tools to fight back. https://esband.bandcamp.com/ |
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Upset The Rhythm presents… LOOPSEL
JJULIUS
CATE KENNANFriday 27 October MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/zc893d7209b7LOOPSEL
conjures music like foggily remembered dreams. The songs on her new
album Öga for Öga are like paths in the forest forest, are heavily,
almost treacherously, reverberated, with finger-plucked guitars acting
as your signposts amongst the flora and fauna of field recordings, pads,
and the cool, calm voice of Elin Engström. The album is the second from
Engström as Loopsel. She is a Gothenburg-based musician and one-half of
both the group Monokultur and the team behind the tiny Mamma’s
Mystersika Jukebox label. During what seemed like the nadir of the
pandemic, the blurry, otherworldly sounds emanating from their living
room snaked into the DFA office, where the otherwise dutifully DIY pair
found the scale of worldwide release and distribution. https://loopsel.bandcamp.com/ JJULIUS is
the name of the swirling, singular world built by Julius Pierstorff,
somewhere deep in the cobwebs of Gothenburg, Sweden, where dub and
kosmische and post-punk sounds all sit around and tell ghost stories to
each other. Originally a fully DIY project on Mamma’s Mysteriska
Jukebox, the label he runs with his partner Loopsel, his latest long
player VOL. 2 was released worldwide in conjunction with New York’s
seminal DFA Records. Now he emerges from the shadows to play some shows,
it’ll be louder and looser, as it should be. https://mammasmysteriskajukebox.bandcamp.com/album/jjulius-vol-2CATE KENNAN
is a composer and recording artist from Los Angeles who writes melodic
music on synthesizers and other instruments. Her debut album, The
Arbitrary Dimension of Dreams, was released by Post Present Medium in
2022. https://catekennan.bandcamp.com |
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