Upset The Rhythm presents…
PHEW
ISAIAH HULL
FREDDIE MURPHY
Tuesday 4 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772
PHEW is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, ‘Our Likeness’, was released on MUTE (recently reissued), again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as a forward facing electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO) and others. Phew’s expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples last year, whilst Mute recently released her stunning record ‘New Decade’; a stark, haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music
ISAIAH HULL is a poet and rapper from London, appearing often alongside frequent collaborator / producer aloisius. Hull’s music glistens in a ghostly way. Heart-wrenching and laugh-inducing in equal measure, Hull deems himself a “stand-up tragedian.” Above minimal, glittering production, reminiscent of Triad God or Dean Blunt, and dark glitch-imbued beats that sound like they’re emitting from turntable on its last legs, Hull shares his heartfelt and diaristic poems-as-tracks – witty and harrowed and never shying from the grim political realities of life in the UK. Combining impeccable flow with singular production, Hull is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. Hull’s debut album ‘Pocomania’ was released through Young earlier this year.
https://young.bandcamp.com/album/pocomania
FREDDIE MURPHY is a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy. His sonic research has shifted from cathartic performances to express the Catholic sense of guilt to an intimate investigation on feelings of loss and acceptance connected with grief, using an approach to composition that is bound to visual imagery and concepts linked to rituality. His musical practice involves experimenting on the duality of natural/synthetic, using acoustic recordings processed into synthetic sounds, as well as mimicking natural sounds using analogue tools. As a founding member of the seminal experimental outfit Father Murphy he released a series of concept albums on labels such as Joyful Noise, The Flenser, Avant! and performed extensively across the world. Appearances include Venice Biennale and Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Dark Mofo Festival (Australia), Le Guess Who!? Festival (NL).
https://linktr.ee/freddiemurphy
