LONDON: Upset the Rhythm @ The Dome

Friday 29th May, 2009

8:00pm

Event information

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
with Omar Souleyman + Group Doueh
plus Sublime Frequencies DJs

Sublime Frequencies travel the globe, digging deep for overlooked and forgotten music. Village halls, schools and bars are all ventured into looking for acts that move their souls, making strong connections with musicians and music lovers wherever they go. Folk and pop musicians are sought out, documented and released on the Sublime Frequencies record label, capturing ultra-vivid sights and sounds from rural life and urban street. Radio broadcasts, field recordings and lost archives are also assembled into CD and vinyl releases, all presented in a genuinely thrilling and unabashed style. This tour follows in that tradition. Street-level folk-pop, over-driven psychedelic meditations, desert blues and Syrian party bangers are all combined with films and DJs on this once in a lifetime Sublime Frequencies tour experience.

This is the first ever Sublime Frequencies Tour. It brings to the UK two live acts who have released albums on the Sublime Frequencies label; Group Doueh (from the Western Sahara) and Omar Souleyman (from Syria) plus Sublime Frequencies DJ set and on certain dates Sublime Frequencies film screenings and talks. Sublime Frequencies are presenting some of the greatest expressive music in the world with only one agenda in mind: that it needs to be heard or seen, respected and recognized. This is a rare opportunity to see the two maverick and genuinely great groups from vastly different traditions and influences playing on the same bill.

Representing the label for the tour are Alan Bishop, Hisham Mayet and Mark Gergis. Bristol based Qu Junktions are the producers. This is an artist run enterprise bringing music and culture and messages together in a high spirited and infectious way.

"SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations." - Sublime Frequencies mission statement.

For up to date info, photos, films and audio check:

www.sublimefrequencies.com
www.myspace.com/sublimefrequencies2

178 Junction Road
Tufnell Park
London
N19 5QQ

www.upsettherhythm.co.uk

0771 386 7881