Morning everyone!
There’s never a dull moment for us at Upset The Rhythm!
Tomorrow the incredible MATANA ROBERTS
will be performing for us at Hackney’s OSLO. Matana is a storyteller, musician,
ethnographer, historian, bandleader, arranger, improviser and activist. Three
albums deep into her ‘Coin Coin’ album project for Constellation it’s become clear that
she’s also responsible for one of the most engaging unfolding bodies of work by
any American artist. For this performance, her first in the UK since the project
began, she’ll be joined by friend and label mate ERIC CHENAUX, known for his inspired balladry and tangling guitar
and vocal improvisations. You can find the full listing for that show below,
along with those for next week’s AARON
DILLOWAY, SISSY SPACEK and MOOR MOTHER GODDESS concert and also of
next week’s show for THE SPACE LADY
and MELTING HEARTS. Thanks for
reading…
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MATANA ROBERTS
‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
MATANA ROBERTS is an internationally renowned
composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner.
Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance,
poetry, and theater. She made two records as a core member of the Sticks And
Stones quartet in the early 2000s and has gone on to release a diverse body of
solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation and Central Control
over the past decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed ‘Coin Coin’
project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose
the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of
American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive
engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within
improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began documenting the ‘Coin
Coin’ project in 2011 and has released the first three of a projected twelve
album-length chapters to date.
The third chapter of ‘Coin Coin’, entitled ‘river run thee’ and released on Constellation on February 2014, finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. ‘Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee’ which Roberts will be performing at this concert, could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile’, this most recent chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.
The third chapter of ‘Coin Coin’, entitled ‘river run thee’ and released on Constellation on February 2014, finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. ‘Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee’ which Roberts will be performing at this concert, could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile’, this most recent chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.
“At my artistic core,
I am firmly dedicated to creating a unique and very personal experiential body
of sound work that speaks to, and reminds people of all walks of life to reach,
stand up, give voice, regardless of difference, created from mere labels of
intellectual classification. In my ideal world the idea of ‘difference’, is an
illusion designed only for the purpose of modern economic division and elitist
intellectual hierarchy. Through my life’s work, I stand creatively in
defiance.” Matana Roberts
Roberts has played with and alongside Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell and Greg Tate to name but a few and has also recorded as a guest musician with rock, pop and electronic groups as diverse as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TV On The Radio, Savath & Savalas, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and performance artists My Barbarian.
http://www.matanaroberts.com/
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. 2015 has seen Eric release ‘Skullsplitter’, perhaps the strongest document yet of the exquisite, poetical songcraft he snake-charms from the roiling and changeable sonic environments bedded beneath. Alongside it has seen a blooming of his collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, with a set of visual pieces made for each track on the album testament to their ongoing exploration of a fresh, symbiotic approach to music-video.
He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren and Norberto Lobo among many. Eric also composes and performs music for film and contemporary dance, and collaborates on numerous sound installations with visual/sound artist Marla Hlady, including Smedaholmen Tourist (with Amplifiers) (2012) for The Thousand And One Birds festival in Norway. Together with Eric Cazdyn he undertook a two-week residency at The Cube Cinema in Bristol, UK, where they produced and performed the film Play The Cube in 2014.
http://cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux/
Roberts has played with and alongside Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell and Greg Tate to name but a few and has also recorded as a guest musician with rock, pop and electronic groups as diverse as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TV On The Radio, Savath & Savalas, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and performance artists My Barbarian.
http://www.matanaroberts.com/
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. 2015 has seen Eric release ‘Skullsplitter’, perhaps the strongest document yet of the exquisite, poetical songcraft he snake-charms from the roiling and changeable sonic environments bedded beneath. Alongside it has seen a blooming of his collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, with a set of visual pieces made for each track on the album testament to their ongoing exploration of a fresh, symbiotic approach to music-video.
He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren and Norberto Lobo among many. Eric also composes and performs music for film and contemporary dance, and collaborates on numerous sound installations with visual/sound artist Marla Hlady, including Smedaholmen Tourist (with Amplifiers) (2012) for The Thousand And One Birds festival in Norway. Together with Eric Cazdyn he undertook a two-week residency at The Cube Cinema in Bristol, UK, where they produced and performed the film Play The Cube in 2014.
http://cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux/
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ON TUESDAY /////
AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK
SISSY SPACEK
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS
Tuesday 13 October
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot
AARON DILLOWAY hails
from Michigan, and is perhaps best known as a founding member of formidable
trip metal gods Wolf Eyes. Since he left that band a decade ago, he’s
delicately extended his exploration of tape manipulations and found sound
appropriation, simultaneously bringing warmth and acidity, high-end assault and
dreamy dislocation in a way that could be said to unwittingly form a bridge between
Robert Ashley and hauntology. A serial collaborator, he’s also made great
records in cahoots with Jason Lescalleet, C. Spencer Yeh and many more and been
compared to Maryanne Amacher and Nurse With Wound. Currently based in Oberlin,
Ohio, from where he runs the Hanson Records label and mailorder, this is his
first (and long overdue) UK appearance since appearing alongside Nate Young at
The Grosvenor, over six years ago!
https://www.facebook.com/Aaron-Dilloway-136620113037549/
SISSY SPACEK is the band project of american noise artist John Wiese and often includes Corydon Ronnau and Jesse Jackson. Based out of LA, Wiese often describes them as grindcore though their work more often features rapidly spliced samples and blistering noise. Live their performance is more closely related to a furious punk maelstrom, utilizing bass/guitar/drum machine in rapid, heavy metal and hardcore inspired bursts with screamed vocals.
https://sissyspacek.bandcamp.com/
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS’ music is a history lesson, a future lesson, and a comment on the present all at once. And really it is more than a lesson, its a soundscape to these different time dimensions, so that you are hearing and experiencing not only music, but you get the voices of the ancestors, the whispers of our descendants, and the field sounds of the future and past landscapes. She presents an immersive experience in her music that unfolds or unearths some of the hidden dimensions that are embedded in sounds.
https://moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Aaron-Dilloway-136620113037549/
SISSY SPACEK is the band project of american noise artist John Wiese and often includes Corydon Ronnau and Jesse Jackson. Based out of LA, Wiese often describes them as grindcore though their work more often features rapidly spliced samples and blistering noise. Live their performance is more closely related to a furious punk maelstrom, utilizing bass/guitar/drum machine in rapid, heavy metal and hardcore inspired bursts with screamed vocals.
https://sissyspacek.bandcamp.com/
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS’ music is a history lesson, a future lesson, and a comment on the present all at once. And really it is more than a lesson, its a soundscape to these different time dimensions, so that you are hearing and experiencing not only music, but you get the voices of the ancestors, the whispers of our descendants, and the field sounds of the future and past landscapes. She presents an immersive experience in her music that unfolds or unearths some of the hidden dimensions that are embedded in sounds.
https://moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com/
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ON WEDNESDAY /////
THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
THE SPACE LADY began
her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing versions
of contemporary pop music an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting
messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, The Space
Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension
to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its
lead exponents ever since, with the likes of John Maus, Erol Alkan and Kutmah
being devotees. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made,
self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a homemade CD.
"The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits" released last year through Night
School features the best of these recordings - mostly covers but with some
originals - pressed on vinyl for the first time and features archival
photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself. “Greatest Hits”
contains The Space Lady’s personal favourites; her haunting take on The
Electric Prunes’ “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night),” a frantic “Ballroom
Blitz” amidst other reconstructed pop music. Following on from this wonderful
record, The Space Lady has begun writing new material and travelling the world
to present her message outside the United States for the first time. This show
follows on from her sensational appearance at Rudolf Steiner House last year!
https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/sets/the-space-lady-greatest-hits
MELTING HEARTS is Samuel Meri, a man with a reputation for slow movements but despite this, he has still managed to spend hundreds of hours in some of Helsinki’s sleaziest karaoke bars, gathering inspiration for his enigmatic, fantasy pop group ‘The Melting Hearts’. Taking cues from Dub, Tango, Finnish Schlager music & disco, Samu has contributed several of his songs to various cassette comps over the years (akin the the infamous petrol station only/truck driver friendly cassette comps rife through-out Finland during the 70s & 80s) as well as recording an excellent 7″ for Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s JEKS imprint. Flash forward to 2015 and The Melting Hearts set their sights on the UK & Europe at large with a long player for Neen Records currently in the works.
https://soundcloud.com/meltingheartsmusic
https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/sets/the-space-lady-greatest-hits
MELTING HEARTS is Samuel Meri, a man with a reputation for slow movements but despite this, he has still managed to spend hundreds of hours in some of Helsinki’s sleaziest karaoke bars, gathering inspiration for his enigmatic, fantasy pop group ‘The Melting Hearts’. Taking cues from Dub, Tango, Finnish Schlager music & disco, Samu has contributed several of his songs to various cassette comps over the years (akin the the infamous petrol station only/truck driver friendly cassette comps rife through-out Finland during the 70s & 80s) as well as recording an excellent 7″ for Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s JEKS imprint. Flash forward to 2015 and The Melting Hearts set their sights on the UK & Europe at large with a long player for Neen Records currently in the works.
https://soundcloud.com/meltingheartsmusic
Looking forward to
seeing you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MATANA ROBERTS
‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK
SISSY SPACEK
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS
Tuesday 13 October
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot
THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
NORMIL
HAWAIIANS
(First show in
thirty years! Two performances)
Saturday 24 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MAXIMUM JOY
JD TWITCH (OPTIMO / DJ Set)
BULLION (DJ Set)
Tuesday
27 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
THE CREEPING IVIES
Wednesday
11 November
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
MIKAL CRONIN
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm
| £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
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