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Upset The Rhythm presents?

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Friday 14 October
St John on Bethnal Green,
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £12

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanizes his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways.

Jake?s excellent new album for Paradise of Bachelors ?Good and Green Again? finds him navigating fresh sonic and compositional landscapes on the most conceptually focused, breathtakingly rendered, and enigmatically poignant record of his catalog. Produced by James Elkington and featuring formidable players both familiar (Casey Toll, Libby Rodenbough) and new (Joe Westerlund, Bonnie Prince Billy), it includes Jake?s first original compositions; atmospheric arrangements with pedal steel, horns, and strings. Always compelling and deftly impressive, Jake?s live shows have become must attend events, so its with great honour that we welcome him back this October to London.

https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/

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200 Cambridge Heath Road,

London,

Greater London,

England,

E2 9PA.