Thursday 30 June 2016

Grumbling Fur show in London announced!


Yeh! Excited to have Grumbling Fur playing this September! 
Looking suitably furry and grumbly in costume!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

GRUMBLING FUR
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/grumbling-fur-tickets
 

Somewhere, in the still-remaining quiet places of London, Grumbling Fur is at work. This being 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. Their new album, Furfour (on Thrill Jockey), is a record that’s the sum of a dizzying array of creative projects by two key figures in an esoteric underground still thriving despite the pressures and pains of modern London.
Furfour gradually emerged over three years of writing and recording at 147 Tower Gardens, the strange ivy-shrouded house that Tucker and O’Sullivan once called home. 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 in many ways remarkable that two such distinct personalities with their roots and much of their activity in the cultural left eld can combine in a record that sounds so rooted, focussed, and accessible. 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, will follow 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, an pan-zodiacal excursion in sound, and later this year 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 Furfour. There’ve also been a series of live collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine.


This breadth of operation frees O’Sullivan and Tucker to create simple, hypnotically engaging songs from paradoxically freeform beginnings. Shaping the lot are their 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. The 12 songs and interstitial abstract pieces that make up Furfour were created not out of structure or theme, and rarely began at the beginning. Instead, Grumbling Fur work by generating sounds and ideas first and then moulding structures and ideas around this. “Songs are about including the process in the finished piece and spontaneous ideas are laid down and a structure starts to emerge from this source,” they explain: “first thought best thought is our motto”.

On Furfour, Grumbling Fur is joined by This Heat’s Charles Bullen and Isobel Sollenberger from Bardo Pond on some tracks, all part of Grumbling Fur’s quest “for kindred spirits, open souls and players we respect.” This goes for each other, of course: “It’s often a case of both trying to work around each others ideas to balance and include one another’s voice,” they explain of the song-writing process.

Working in their own home studios, Grumbling Fur blew on the embers and Furfour began to glow. 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”. Golden Simon and Heavy Days, meanwhile, describe the many horizons of the pop landscape that Brian Eno painted in Another Green World. Musical history is stuffed with male songwriting partnerships eventually driven apart by ego, but Grumbling Fur lift their music above the quotidian by making it about each other, a realisation that only by understanding our own human relationships can we comprehend how we might exist in part of something bigger. “The band is as much about our friendship and shared love of music, art, literature, lm, comics, goddesses and gods,” they explain: “Joy, bliss, friendship and expression are the central keystone to the Fur universe.”

Saturday 25 June 2016

New DEERHOOF album released, plus Eartheater tonight!


Hello everyone!

We’re positively running cartwheels around Upset The Rhythm HQ today as we’re immensely proud to help guide Deerhoof’s new album The Magic out into the world. Released now on Upset The Rhythm, The Magic is a mixtape imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery; boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. It is a mixtape by the kid with the biggest music collection you've ever seen, who will take you camping and show you how to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

After all the accolades from press and peers, what’s a legendary band left to do? Rent out an abandoned office space in the middle of the desert in New Mexico in lieu of a regular recording studio, go in with little or no preconceived notions of what would happen, set up, plug in and get loud! After seven days Deerhoof had found (you guessed it) ‘The Magic’, a raw and refreshing wallop of an album about leaving your comfort zone and finding a pineapple.

This new album is an alchemy of '77 punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, spandex, shadows, and attitude. It turns poetry into noise, volume knobs into pleasure, friendship into rock band. "Maybe it came from the music we liked when we were kids, when music was like magic - before we knew about the industry and before there were rules - sometimes hair metal is the right choice. We all showed up in the mood to sing," says drummer Greg Saunier. 

 
You can buy The Magic on LP (white 180g vinyl) or CD from shops right now or if you’d prefer from out web-shop here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

We also have the option of buying the record in combination with an exclusive cassette tape of Deerhoof covering all their favourite songs by the likes of Sonic Youth, Madonna, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Malaria, Van Halen and Def Leppard! Tasty! Pour some sugar on that!



Thank you to everyone for coming to our recent CC Dust and Ty Segall shows! We have one more show this week for you as we’re heading to Café OTO tonight for the stratospheric, crystalline balladry of Eartheater, visionary sound abstraction from Gabriel Saloman and enigmatic, pastoral psych-outs from Common Eider, King Eider. Literally a triple headline show, this is the concert that just keeps coming up with the goods! Tickets for this are £9 in advance from the link below, read on!


\\\\\     TONIGHT     /////

EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

EARTHEATER is Alexandra Drewchin, a New York based musician and artist who seeks on a daily basis to upgrade her mental software. Also known for her shamanic performances fronting Guardian Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled solo vessel, a deliberate distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic production techniques into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline details. At any given moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between a folk song, a musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a cosmic montage that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad arrangements rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her dynamic vocal performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities. Drewchin builds layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to constitute stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October 2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.
https://soundcloud.com/alex-drewchin

GABRIEL SALOMAN is a Vancouver based musician and artist who has been performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently composes and performs solo as GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel concern with sound art as both liberating practice and praxis. In recent performances and recordings Saloman’s music has been composed of percussion, tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar, keyboards, piano and voice. In particular Saloman has explored the use of found sound, field recordings, percussion and processed blank cassettes.
https://gabrielsaloman.bandcamp.com/

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always been an enigmatic project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and operating on the fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in sweeping drones, stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence. This endeavor (the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback to his will, smoothing out harsh edges into something soothing, gentle, and quite lovely; nature infuses every note and every pause, and that the project's latest album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and its five movements sound like a dark forest evening is no coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the latest offering from Common Eider King Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It comes with a handmade book of poetry, printed with metallic gold ink on blood red 100% recycled paper.
https://commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/


Have a terrific weekend!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
 
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

SONIC BOOM
HAPPY MEALS
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

PROTOMARTYR
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

In collaboration with Constant Flux…
DANIEL WAKEFORD
DOG CHOCOLATE
2DECKS
Saturday 23 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
NB. DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/   (Carers may attend for free)

THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ

HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631

CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146  

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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

7pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/364535

Tuesday 21 June 2016

London shows this week for CC Dust, Ty Segall & The Muggers, Ausmuteants, Eartheater and Gabriel Saloman!


Afternoon everyone!
Abundant thanks to all of you who came out last week to our shows, Colin Self and Natural Information Society both blew us beyond away with their performances. We have footage from both concerts up on our video channel now if you’d like to re/live how great it was!

Remember, we wouldn’t be able to organise concerts for artists like these without your support, your contribution is always valued, thank you endlessly!

This week we have another trio of Upset The Rhythm events planned. Thursday sees us head to Servant Jazz Quarters for a night of synth-pop craving and eerie punk actions with CC Dust, Static Palm and Badaboum. Anyone who caught Maryjane’s performance style with VEXX last Summer can attest to what an electrifying experience watching her enact truly is! Tickets are just £5 and will be available on the door.

Friday finds us at The O2 Forum Kentish Town with the astonishing Ty Segall & The Muggers and Ausmuteants; an epic meeting of minds for heavy-hitting riffage, kinetic thrills and all things punk vs offbeat. The Muggers feature members of Wand, Cairo Gang and King Tuff himself, so looks set to be dizzyingly special indeed. The Ausmuteants show last year was also one of our favourites, even though Harry Potter didn’t turn up on the band’s guestlist! Tickets available from the links below, amplifiers on from 8pm.

Finally, this Saturday we’re delighted to be back at Café OTO, this time accompanied by the stratospheric, crystalline balladry of Eartheater, visionary sound abstraction from Gabriel Saloman and enigmatic, pastoral psych-outs from Common Eider, King Eider. Literally a triple headline show, this is the concert that just keeps coming up with the goods! Tickets for this are £9 in advance from the link below, plus there’s paragraphs galore on each of these events to follow.



It’s time to close those diaries and open your wardrobe! With our new TERRY album coming out next week, we’re celebrating early with this brand new t-shirt design by James Vinciguerra of Total Control. These were printed by The Positive Press this week on 100% cotton Anvil shirts and are available from our webstore in multitude sizes right now! This is a limited run of 100 shirts, with all proceeds going towards bringing over the band on their debut tour this September! Available to purchase here:



\\\\\     THURSDAY     /////


CC DUST
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147

CC DUST is a new duo from Olympia, Washington featuring Maryjane Dunphe and David Jaques. Channeling an elemental life-force hewn straight from the heart, Dunphe’s voice bursts into every melodic line, a cracked, soulful instrument powered by conviction, duetting, duelling and dancing with Jaques’ crisp electronic production. A light that casts shadow, a doomed, romantic music anchored by Jacques’ live bass and powerful performance values Dunphe has honed both in her punk group Vexx and in various film and performance projects. Musically, CC Dust’s precedents might be considered the European synth pop originators of the early 80s, there’s also an abundance of low-end hooks played on baritone and bass guitars that teases the ear like early New Order productions, but in Dunphe’s passionate vocal performances there’s a close-to-the-bone reality that bypasses cool detachment. CC Dust play real songs lived.

STATIC PALM is the solo project of James Burgess, joined live by Sealings' Michael & Liam. Synth & drum-machine led brooding post-punk. Fans of John Maus, Total Control, Tuxedomoon and other practitioners of ice-cold post-punk will enjoy.

BADABOUM are a French all-star group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and Solene (Dudu Geva). They play a form of post punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and Malaria adding their own reverbed idiosyncracies and eerie organ lines, chanting in indecipherable italian, mock german and plain french. Taking turns on drums and blowing thru severed reeds, Badaboum will bring you as much joy as spooked chaos. Bruit Direct Disques just released their debut LP.



\\\\\     FRIDAY     /////


TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS, what are they thinking? Whether under his own name or from various side projects, Ty Segall has kept new music waiting around the corner for years. Over a mountain of releases (mainly on Drag City and In The Red), he's proven that he can shred multiple times over, and that he can match that intensity in his acoustic singer/songwriter mode. With new album ‘Emotional Mugger’, we arrived at a turning point for Segall, now he’s less focused on hitting the exact right notes and more concerned with establishing an offbeat vibe, one matching the cheerful menace of the smiling doll heads on the record sleeve. Another major departure for Segall on ‘Emotional Mugger’ is his team. In addition to his usual co-conspirators Mikal Cronin and Charles Moothart, he's surrounded himself by heavy-hitters like Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), producer F. Bermudez (who helmed recent records by Gun Outfit and No Age), Wand's Cory Hanson and Evan Burrows, and the Cairo Gang's Emmett Kelly. Ty Segall & The Muggers are addicted to cheap thrills, rooting their songs with weird punk hooks, droning synths and trippy guitar solos, they want it rawer and realer because when Candy’s gone, there’s no more fun!
http://emotionalmugger.com/

AUSMUTEANTS are four twenty-nothings from Geelong, Victoria (Australia), raised on a diet of seminal avant punk like Chrome and the Screamers. Letʼs not mention Devo—as a two-piece, Jake Robertson (synth, guitar) and Billy Gardener (drums) flushed that obsession with the release of their ‘Split Personalities’ album in 2012. They’ve since added Marc Dean and Shaun Connor on bass and guitar, respectively, and worked ’60s songwriting ideas, disco rhythms and a subtler brand of heft into finely crafted pop songs, recording 22 in early 2013. Aarght! Records picked the best twelve for ‘Amusements’, reissued on vinyl by Goner. It's 12 tracks of ripping, captivating, fun synth-punk. As they shift from a deep buzzing synth to a trembling high end, Ausmuteants consistently veer far away from anything resembling ‘Computer World’. Instead, they invoke the kinetic, trashy attack of the essential Killed By Death punk compilations. "Bad Day" has a persistent synth churn that's bolstered by Gardener's primitive, hi-hat led stomp. Then there's "Daylight Robbery", which features a melody that seems appropriately urgent for a song about breaking a window in order to commit a crime in plain view of the afternoon sun. Ausmuteants create a specific, slovenly universe with their music, and while they don't move too far past the couch, they create an exciting synth barrage from where they sit.



\\\\\     SATURDAY     /////


EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

EARTHEATER is Alexandra Drewchin, a New York based musician and artist who seeks on a daily basis to upgrade her mental software. Also known for her shamanic performances fronting Guardian Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled solo vessel, a deliberate distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic production techniques into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline details. At any given moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between a folk song, a musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a cosmic montage that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad arrangements rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her dynamic vocal performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities. Drewchin builds layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to constitute stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October 2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.

GABRIEL SALOMAN is a Vancouver based musician and artist who has been performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15 years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently composes and performs solo as GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel concern with sound art as both liberating practice and praxis. In recent performances and recordings Saloman’s music has been composed of percussion, tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar, keyboards, piano and voice. In particular Saloman has explored the use of found sound, field recordings, percussion and processed blank cassettes.

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always been an enigmatic project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and operating on the fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in sweeping drones, stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence. This endeavor (the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback to his will, smoothing out harsh edges into something soothing, gentle, and quite lovely; nature infuses every note and every pause, and that the project's latest album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and its five movements sound like a dark forest evening is no coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the latest offering from Common Eider King Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It comes with a handmade book of poetry, printed with metallic gold ink on blood red 100% recycled paper.


See you so soon, thanks for reading!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
 
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY

EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

SONIC BOOM
HAPPY MEALS
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

PROTOMARTYR
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

In collaboration with Constant Flux…
DANIEL WAKEFORD
DOG CHOCOLATE
2DECKS
Saturday 23 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
NB. DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/   (Carers may attend for free)

THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ

HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631

CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146  

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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

7pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/364535