Melt Yourself Down
Wednesday 19th June 2013
Selling Fast
With: Birkwin Jersey + DJ Cheesemaster
At
Doors 8:00 pm
Price £8 / £10
Melt Yourself Down make sounds you can taste and smell. Strange incantations of fierce post-punk, discordant funk and wild sonic voodoo. Centred around saxophonist Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear), they number some of the finest musicians in the land – Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet, the Heliocentrics), Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny, Sons of Kemet, Mulatu Astatke), Ruth Goller (Acoustic Ladyland), Kushal Gaya (Zun Zun Egui) and Satin Singh (Transglobal Underground), spanning jazz, rock and world music. Theirs is music mined and hewn from North African deserts and the New York underground. Sounds blasted and blown. Jazz detonated. Rhythms to rearrange the DNA.
Melt Yourself Down have issued three calls to arms, the singles ‘Fix My Life’, ‘We Are Enough’ and the full-on frenzied funk of ‘Release!’, filling dance-floors and airwaves. The self-titled album, out in June, fulfils the promise, plunging you into an ecstatic fever dream. As Pitchfork has it, they’re “a bazaar sax smackdown that has an iron in every furnace of global psychedelia, smelted into a structure of tungsten strength.”
Live, they’re a tropical storm, lit by full-frontal fireworks and led from the front by Kushal Gaya, part finger-pointing punk shaman, part proselytising preacherman, spitting fire and brimstone calls that demand a response. Their message: Melt Yourself Down and turn yourself up. Get out of it and into it. And go.
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to see Melt Yourself Down, tickets on sale now!
“I think they are extraordinary… brilliant.” – John Kennedy, Xfm
“Totally, totally blew me away. Blew my mind. Awesome.” – Ally McCrae, BBC Radio 1