Friday 25 November 2016

Ravioli Me Away - 'Living Is A Myth' out now!

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Afternoon one and all!

Happy days for Upset The Rhythm as today is a new release day! Ravioli Me Away’s impressive new album entitled Living Is A Myth makes its way out in the world. Ravioli Me Away are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway, Alice Theobald and more recently Monika Krol. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high-energy music is stylistically schizophrenic. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of illusion, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described by the band as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.”


Living Is A Myth is the group’s second album and it’s a tour de force of surreal pop, exploring symptoms of society through its overlapping patterns of ideas and music. Always inventive, clatter-some drumbeats drive the songs onwards, whilst the bass plunges through the fantastical worlds emerging from the woozy pools of formidable keyboard tone. Melody and reiteration are at the forefront, with Dorrer’s wordplay and sublime delivery racing through the songs with effortless style. Their gatefold LP is accompanied by an A1 poster of the band, an orange slice of vinyl and a lyric book with download code. You can buy Living Is A Myth from shops worldwide as of now or from our very own webshop here!



We’ll also be selling copies of Living Is A Myth tomorrow at the remarkable Independent Label Market in Spitalfields. From 11am-6pm Upset The Rhythm will be selling our wares including records, rarities, posters and t-shirts from our stall to all and sundry. We’ll have some brilliant bargains for your Xmas shopping plans and mince pies spilling off the table, so feel free to stop by, say hello, drop off a demo and swig some of our ginger wine from under the table! There are many other labels participating so it’s always a great event, plus lots of local breweries will be serving up pints galore, what’s not to like!

Today we’re also announcing a new concert for our good friend Cian Nugent who will be coming back to London in February. Cian is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, who combines suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s-'70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school all into his deeply personal style. In support we are very lucky to have Mega Bog aka Erin Birgy swirling her lush incantations into your ears too. The full show listing concludes this message, tickets on sale now.

We’ll leave you with the full listing of our final show of the year, an Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party coinciding with our 13th birthday too. Taking place on Saturday 17th December at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club we have a rich pageant of entertainments planned including live performances from Rattle, Ravioli Me Away, Guttersnipe, Blood Sport and Apostille! We hope you can join us!



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Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17 December
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB


APOSTILLE is the recording and performing project of Night School honcho Michael Kasparis (of Please and The Lowest Form). Having started as a home-damaged pop music, Apostille has grown into a live-wire synth punk prospect that bridges physicality with emotive bleed. Insistent flickering beats hold down a sturdy framework for Kasparis' clouds of echoed vocals and synth cluster quests. Sometimes Michael's voice soars above the music, hanging their like an apparition, other times the cloaked notes surge forwards, bouncing between distorted handclaps, wonky basslines and oblique incantations to deliriously wondrous effect. Apostille’s debut album ‘Powerless’ was released last year through Night School, look out 2017 as a new album is well on the way!
  
BLOOD SPORT formed in Sheffield in 2010, and ever since the trio have forged an arresting sound practice from within the city’s industrious art/music community. Their blistering guitar dynamics and pointed-yet-pointillist lyrics meshing into rough-house, techno-gilded polyrhythms, with an untrammelled urgency pervading their tightly wound sound and all that surrounds and informs it. Now the band is set to surge and attack. 2016 will see the fruition of a year’s work in both the live and recorded realms, with new record Axe Laid To The Root released on Blast First Petite following three EPs and a strong debut LP Life In Units, all released on DIY labels – Tye Die Tapes, the band’s own Hybrid Vigour Records and via The Audacious Art Experiment, the record-release wing of the independent arts hub they co-run in Sheffield. Blood Sport have a relentless, heavily structuralist live show, a wall of noise and rhythm delivered with ferocious intensity, girding and grinding the audience into movement. With a background playing squats, raves, art happenings and clubs, the band has increasingly sequenced their set for the dancefloor.
http://bloodsportband.tumblr.com/

GUTTERSNIPE are a Leeds drums/guitar duo who dive straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis – imagine the esoteric mayhem of Angel Blood combined with the venue-destroying psychic power of early Boredoms and Naked City, and you ain’t even close. Comprising the duo of Xylocopa Violacea and Bdallophytum, if Guttersnipe don’t blow away your cobwebs, nothing will.
https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/releases

RAVIOLI ME AWAY are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and Alice Theobald and more recently, have recruited Monika Kroll as an intermittent member. Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy, dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with stylistically schizophrenic motifs span all-known past, present and future human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes described as “vintage drag-queen Bananarama Youtube footage played with twice the sass and in double time with an incredulous broadband connection reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.” This November, RMA will release their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The Rhythm.
http://raviolimeaway.co.uk/ 

RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, focusing almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days when we’re saturated with so much music. Their live performances are at once hypnotic, monastic and danceable, plus their debut self-titled album was released this Summer on Upset The Rhythm and I Own You.



Huge thanks to all of you who came out to see our Kristin Hersh concerts this week. Have a fantastic weekend, thanks for reading!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17 December
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB


CARLA DAL FORNO
GROSS NET
Saturday 4 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT

DEERHOOF
Monday 6 February
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

CIAN NUGENT
MEGA BOG
Saturday 11 February
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382844

MILKY WIMPSHAKE
‘20th Anniversary Show!’
Saturday 4 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT

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