Friday 30 September 2016

Upcoming London shows for Sauna Youth, Stephen Steinbrink, Samara Lubelski, Guapo and Upsilon Acrux


Morning all!

Thank you for coming out already to see Grumbling Fur this week, we’re not finished with you yet though! Tomorrow we’re welcoming Sauna Youth back from their stunning US tour with a homecoming show at Kamio. Joining the on-fire fourpiece will be David West (Rat Columns, Liberation), Score and Middex; total satisfaction guaranteed! Plus we’ll have General Echo Soundsystem helping fill the dancefloor throughout the night until 2am! Now that’s what I call music: volume 2.1! Read on for all the detail, tickets available on the door and live music kicking off from 8.30pm.

Next week is keeping us busy too. On Tuesday we’re lucky enough to have a double headline show of finesse planned for The Lexington with songwriters Stephen Steinbrink and Samara Lubelski both performing. Stephen is known for heartbreaking smooth grooves and lyrical rambles, whilst Samara is a legend of the psych/folk/blues tradition, both united in their shared love of baroque pop. Opening that show is LC Pumpkin too, more below!

If that wasn’t already a regal banquet on Friday Upset The Rhythm are heading to Café OTO to host an evening of rollercoaster prog and blazing avant rock courtesy of Upsilon Acrux, Guapo and Honey Ride Me A Goat (winning name!). Having Upsilon over is a very rare occurrence indeed and when they last played for us, almost a decade ago, they left all minds blown, so that’ll be a fitting way to end next week with a bang.

Whilst we’re talking about all things guitar twitchy and drum blustery I should tell you that yesterday we confirmed Horse Lords’ debut London performance. This will take place at The Lexington on November 14th, tickets on sale now. Horse Lords are one of our favourite bands, playing custom refretted guitars, their rolling polyrhythms chime with the strange and distinct harmonies of just intonation inspired by the master La Monte Young. Not one to miss.

We’ve also announced this week a special Halloween show for one of our oldest friends, Vice Cooler on yes you guessed it Halloween. Vice as part of XBXRX was responsible for a good dollop of inspiration for us in starting Upset The Rhythm, so it’s brilliant to have him back. Vice is over in the UK drumming for The Raincoats, but knowing his deep love of the spooksome we’ve talked him into a solo show to mark the thinning of the veils, joined by I Know I’m An Alien and Trash Kit DJs. Sebright Arms, October 31st, can’t go wrong!



\\\\\     TOMORROW     /////



SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM
(Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161

SAUNA YOUTH 
are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Boon (drums, vocals), Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. Last year’s totemic ‘Distractions’ album (Upset The Rhythm) is a record that feels instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. This jam-packed show welcomes back Sauna Youth to their hometown following on from their debut US tour this month.
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/                  

DAVID WEST draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on his new polyphonic platter (‘Peace or Love’), from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer. Peace or Love (out now on Tough Love) is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California.
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/david-west-dream-on-dreamer-1 

SCORE make blown-out energetic no wave/anarcho noise; all the right amounts of harsh, sassy structure, bile and beauty. Members of Woolf, Dregs and Cop come together in a gritty torrent of rawboned hardcore bratpunk, primitive and pounding, searing and surging. Demo imminent, no link yet!

MIDDEX
 trades in suburban deliberation and galactic musings. This is outer space hidden in the outer boroughs plastered over the flat thump of frosted Perspex hearts. Check out his two lathe cut 7”s out now on Polytechnic Youth.
http://polytechnicyouth.com/

GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
http://generalechoes.tumblr. com/



\\\\\     NEXT TUESDAY     /////




STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

STEPHEN STEINBRINK is an American songwriter, born in Phoenix, AZ and currently residing in Oakland, CA. After more than ten years of touring and secluded home recording, Stephen Steinbrink has cataloged several albums worth of gorgeous melody, quotidian dread and desert blight in his stark, minimal pop. Yet the songs on his latest record ‘Anagrams’, beautiful yet unflinching portraits of addiction and mental illness are captured in his most meticulous and high-fidelity production to date. While one might expect the record to be a final destination, a tidy hi-res culmination of all this journeying, the album’s particularly varied styles and sincere lyrical uncertainty portray a search that still continues. Stephen’s artistic trajectory can be considered nomadic in the obvious sense: when not incessantly touring Europe and the U.S. in the last two years, he spent his stationary moments on his beloved, spaced-out west coast, writing in Olympia, Washington; Oakland, California and Phoenix, Arizona. But as a self-taught producer, audio fidelity itself proves to be an equally accurate gauge of his craft. Like many songwriters, he cut his teeth in the tape hiss and bedroom hum of lo-fi 4-track endeavors. Then in 2014, he released an unabashedly digital tableaux of subdued, heartbreaking pop, aptly titled Arranged Waves. Now, Anagrams (out now on Melodic) finds him chasing melodies in the polished largesse of a proper studio.
http://stephensteinbrink.com/

SAMARA LUBELSKI is a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and engineer. With a voluminous musical pedigree, the list of artists (individually and collectively) that Lubelski has played, performed or recorded with, reads out like a best-of the who’s who of the art, noise, free, improve scenes. Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings, MV and EE, and Thurston Moore are just the beginning of what can be mentioned here. Her first solo outing, 1997’s ‘In the Valley’, was a major installment in the recorded legacy of experimental string music, a dense exploration of drones and resonance. This was followed in 2004 with a full-band recording of lush psychedelic folk-rock for ‘The Fleeting Skies’. Since then, Lubelski has released a wonderfully colorful series of albums: ‘Spectacular Of Passages’ (2005), ‘Parallel Suns’ (2007), ‘Future Slip’ (2009) and ‘Wavelength’ (2012). Her current projects include an improvisational duo with Marcia Bassett and a long-standing collaboration with German collective Metabolismus. Additionally, Ms. Lubelski has worked with the prolific Thurston Moore on a variety of outings, including playing violin on Mr. Moore’s solo records ‘Trees Outside the Academy’ and ‘Demolished Thoughts’ and recording and touring with his band Chelsea Light Moving. Her most recent solo violin record, ‘String Cycle’, was released in 2014, and ‘Augenmusik’, a Metabolismus improvised collaboration, issued a cassette in 2015. Released in 2016 by Drawing Room Records, new album ‘The Gilded Age’ represents Lubelski’s most current offering; a highly refined pop record displaying all her baroque genius.
http://samaralubelski.com/  

LC PUMPKIN is the low-fidelity solo offshoot from shambolic, cod-garage rockers Les Cactus & the Rumpy Pumpkins. Warping keyboards, fuzz-banjo, blown-out drum machine beats and extremely catchy songwriting.
https://lcpumpkin.bandcamp.com/





\\\\\     NEXT FRIDAY     /////



UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

UPSILON ACRUX is an instrumental quintet (dual guitars, keyboards, bass and drums). Their music is generally very intense, loud, hard-hitting and unbelievably virtuosic. Upsilon Acrux's music is demanding on many levels, but mostly it demands that you listen to it a number of times before forming an opinion, because only after you've gotten familiar with it can you get past the sheer complexity and onslaught of it all and hear the amazing musicality of what they are doing. This combination of blazingly fast, interwoven musical lines delivered at blinding speed mixed with their unique melodic sense makes Upsilon's music instantly recognisable.
https://www.facebook.com/upsilonacrux/

GUAPO is a British trio that plays an intense music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism and avant-rock. Their sound has been compared to such artists as Magma, Boredoms, King Crimson, Univers Zero, This Heat, Ruins, Sun Ra and Terry Riley. As Sound Projector put it, "Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them...on a par with Magma’s Kohntarkosz or Univers Zero’s Ceux Du Dehors". The group started their life as a heavy bass/drums duo playing post-hardcore, noisy rock, but in the two decades since, they have expanded their instrumentation and their stylistic references to become one of Europe's most highly respected 'muscular and modern' experimental/progressive rock bands.
http://www.guapo.co.uk/

HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT come from Kent and seem obsessed with Indian Cuisine and hyper-complex rollercoaster jazz punk. Guitar, bass and drums freak out into an confounding and extremely tight onslaught which bursts with freedom, chaos, fun and nonsense all at the same time. HRMAG have a number of vinyl and CD releases available now on their band camp below.
https://honeyridemeagoat.bandcamp.com/


Thanks for reading, catch you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
   
SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM
(Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY WIRES
SIDNEY
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

SICK LLAMA & THURSTON MOORE
POREST
Wednesday 26 October
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT

VICE COOLER
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms

NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
THOMAS RAGSDALE
Wednesday 9 November
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£7 | 7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659   

SHOPPING
SCRAP BRAIN
SQUEAKEASY
MOLAR
Thursday 10 November
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374130

NEGATIVE SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

HORSE LORDS
Monday 14 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

TIM PRESLEY
(White Fence)
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH (Second night added due to popular demand!)
Wednesday 23 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | SOLD OUT

Thursday 29 September 2016

Horse Lords are going to play London in November!!!



Upset The Rhythm presents...


HORSE LORDS
Monday 14 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

Founded at the turn o’ the ‘teens by Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums), Horse Lords quickly established themselves as avant-heavies with the two extended tracks of their powerful self-titled debut (Ehse Records, 2012). Playing custom electric guitars and basses refretted by Gardner, the band’s rolling polyrhythms chime with the strange and distinct harmonies of just intonation inspired by the master La Monte Young and other heroes.

Part of the newest wave of smarty-arty-weirdos playing DIY spaces and tea houses and college campuses, Horse Lords’ soaring heaviness achieves a true poise that seems equally primed to make the leap to concert halls and festivals. Making appearances on freeform radio station WFMU and concert recording site NYCTaper, Horse Lords are recognized, too, as a galvanizing live act, powered by the double-drumming of Sam Haberman and Andrew Bernstein.
  

EXCITING!!!
x

Friday 23 September 2016

Grumbling Fur and Sauna Youth shows in London next week, plus new Kristin Hersh concert announced!


Hello again!

Huge thanks to all of you for coming out this last week to support our Kate Carr, Pega Monstro and Terry shows. Next week is also a busy one for Upset The Rhythm as we have two more shows on! On Tuesday we’re hosting an evening at OSLO for the truly sublime Grumbling Fur, whose new album is a swirling world of perfect pop head-warps. In support we’re very lucky to have Dan Hayhurst of Sculpture performing a solo set too. Then next Saturday we’re welcoming Sauna Youth home from their vastly awesome US tour with a concert planned at Kamio (formerly the Red Gallery). David West, Score and Middex will also be playing that one, plus General Echo Soundsystem will be holding down the decks all night, tops! Full details on both of those winners to follow, plus ticket available for both too, links below.



Today, we’re also ecstatic to announce a further Kristin Hersh show after her first one has sold out so quickly! Popular demand demanding it and all that! So, if you haven’t got a ticket already, Wednesday 23rd November is the new date for this additional show at St John on Bethnal Green. Tickets now onsale here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/376510




\\\\\     TUESDAY     /////



GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

GRUMBLING FUR is the joint manifestation of Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan which, since 2011, has birthed a series of increasingly focussed albums of psychedelic pop. Shaping their sound are some long-standing shared musical affections, a polyglot music encompassing orchestrated poptones, collage, dub and beat-making as well as experimental and drone elements: touchtones might include Faust, Arthur Russell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Moondog, Michael Nyman, Gate, Syd Barrett, Stereolab, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Ashtray Navigations, Cc Hennix and Madlib.
 
2016 is a already a year of intense activity for Tucker and O’Sullivan outside of Grumbling Fur: Tucker’s latest comic was featured in Art Review, a full publication, World In The Force, is due soon on Breakdown Press, along with a new solo album. O’Sullivan has been at the core of the wildly successful This Heat reconstitution, and with Massimo Pupillo of Zu recently released Laniakea. As part of Ulver, he released ATGCLVLSSCAP, a pan-zodiacal excursion in sound, and imminently there’ll be a new album from Æthenor (a collaboration between O’Sullivan, Steve Noble and Stephen O’Malley). In the guise of the Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra, Tucker and O’Sullivan have just released a 12” of ROSE, their collaborative piece with Turner Prize-nominee Mark Titchner, who in turn produced the artwork for forthcoming GF album, ‘Furfour’. There’ve also been a series of live collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine.

New album, ‘Furfour’, is a record that’s the sum of a dizzying array of creative projects. It’s an album whose warm heart is shaped, say Grumbling Fur, by birth, loss, friendship, death, those things that happen to us all. Yet as ever with this duo, it’s altered through fantasy and sci-fi, Carlos Castenada, shamanic mind warp, house ghosts and meditation. It’s a curious, generous-hearted and organic-sounding record that has its mood set by the easy harmonising of O’Sullivan and Tucker’s voices as they oat melodiously above clackering rhythms of "Milky Light," strings as celestial beings in "Silent Plans," scraps of half-heard spiritual texts and, conversely, the synth pop banger of "Acid Ali Khan" which sounds, as one writer once summed up Grumbling Fur, “like Depeche Mode in a stone circle”. ‘Furfour’ is out on September 16th on Thrill Jockey records, release party anyone?
https://www.facebook.com/grumblingfur/ 

DAN HAYHURST, sonic section of AV duo, Sculpture, performs structurally unstable material from his new solo LP, Critter Party, assimilating elements of technological psychedelia, noise, media collage and shape shifting electronics. This is music that operates at the point where patterns emerge from chaos (or perhaps the point of disintegration). Emotional and direct performance is skewed through a matrix of tape decks, samplers and electronic instruments. Warped guitar and percussion moiré meet fragments of media detritus and electronic sound. Post-criticality... critters just want to party.




\\\\\     NEXT SATURDAY     /////



SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM
(Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161

SAUNA YOUTH 
are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Boon (drums, vocals), Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. Last year’s totemic ‘Distractions’ album (Upset The Rhythm) is a record that feels instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. This jam-packed show welcomes back Sauna Youth to their hometown following on from their debut US tour this month.
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/                  

DAVID WEST draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on his new polyphonic platter (‘Peace or Love’), from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer. Peace or Love (out now on Tough Love) is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California.

SCORE make blown-out energetic no wave/anarcho noise; all the right amounts of harsh, sassy structure, bile and beauty. Members of Woolf, Dregs and Cop come together in a gritty torrent of rawboned hardcore bratpunk, primitive and pounding, searing and surging. Demo imminent, no link yet!

MIDDEX
 trades in suburban deliberation and galactic musings. This is outer space hidden in the outer boroughs plastered over the flat thump of frosted Perspex hearts. Check out his two lathe cut 7”s out now on Polytechnic Youth.

GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)


Thanks for your time! Have a wonderful weekend!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
   
GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM
(Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY WIRES
SIDNEY
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

SICK LLAMA & THURSTON MOORE
POREST
Wednesday 26 October
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT

NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
THOMAS RAGSDALE
Wednesday 9 November
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£7 | 7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659   

SHOPPING
SCRAP BRAIN
SQUEAKEASY
MOLAR
Thursday 10 November
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374130

NEGATIVE SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

TIM PRESLEY
(White Fence)
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH (Second night added due to popular demand!)
Wednesday 23 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | SOLD OUT