Upset The Rhythm presents…
XIU XIU
EVICSHEN
JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO
Tuesday 19 November
Heaven, Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG (14 +, under 16s accompanied by an adult)
7pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wbcbd06fdcd1
XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in the studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu’s music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever-served with bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners.
13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl Records) is the newest record from Xiu Xiu, but only on the face of it. Underneath that face, the ligaments and struggles of a need that seeks to name itself over every record and every song on every record, ever written by Xiu Xiu, of course. Nine songs to seal the deal for those who will still listen to all nine songs in order because an album is a message that can’t be read piecemeal. Mixed by John Congleton with a band-directed mandate that he should feel free to both “go crazy” and if there was ever any doubt as to what that meant please, by all means “choose iconoclasm.”
http://www.xiuxiu.org/
EVICSHEN, aka Victoria Shen, is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice concerns the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analogue modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favour of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls “chaotic sound” to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning.
JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO present themselves as a queer duo of narrative words and soundscapes with an upcoming album featuring collaborations with Simon Fisher Turner, Xiu Xiu, Paul Beauchamp and Julia Kent and the recent EP “Some Time Spent There”, featuring actor/flute player Francesca Sebastian Puopolo, who also performs live with them.
https://fabriziomodonesepalumbo.bandcamp.com/album/some-time-spent-there
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