Picture Credit score: Dean Chalkley
Following sizzling on the heels of her quirky infectious debut album I Play My Bass Loud, Gina is again with the namechecking track of all namechecking songs with the quick and livid Inflicting Hassle Once more, a rallying cry for excellent ladies. Learn on…
Legendary artist, Raincoats co-founder, songwriter, filmmaker, and feminist icon Gina Birch has introduced her eagerly awaited second solo album, Hassle, arriving through Third Man Data on Friday, July 11. Pre-orders can be found now. Hassle is heralded by at present’s premiere of the album’s blistering centerpiece, Inflicting Hassle Once more accessible for streaming now. An official music video – directed by Birch and famed photographer/filmmaker Dean Chalkley and that includes an all-star collective of fellow feminine artists together with Birch’s longtime pal and co-founder of The Raincoats, Ana da Silva, Neo Naturists co-founder Christine Binnie, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby, X-Ray Spex and Important Logic co-founder Lora Logic, painter Daisy Parris, artist Georgina Starr, author Jill Westwood, multi-disciplinary artist and activist Bobby Baker, award-winning costume designer Annie Symons, veteran photographer and Raincoats collaborator Shirley O’Loughlin, and lots of extra – is streaming now on YouTube.
“For the Inflicting Hassle Once more video, after listening to Bob Dylan sing a few white ladder all lined with water, I turned obsessive about white ladders,” Gina Birch says. “ I made a decision to make use of 5 white ladders, three with seven rungs…I noticed later that this references Jacob’s Ladder and a connection from Earth to heaven, however I believe I used to be considering of ladders as a logo of getting on, getting up. I needed to have a choreographed motion with 4 of us with these ladders. How can we transfer with ladders? Can we transfer collectively, can we struggle, can we dance?
“I additionally needed to reference the wind scene from the movie, The Color of Pomegranates, and to incorporate as many artist ladies from the Ladies in Revolt exhibition as I might. I needed them to be troublesome, or simply to shout ‘Inflicting hassle!’ I ended up inviting all of the artist musician ladies I knew who might make the shoot, and it was a implausible assembly of nice ladies, lots of whom had by no means met one another earlier than.”
Inflicting Hassle Once more was impressed by 2024’s Ladies in Revolt, an exhibition of feminist artwork and activism at Tate Britain which included certainly one of Birch’s most acknowledged artwork items, 1977’s 3 Minute Scream, a landmark brief movie wherein she stares down the digital camera and, because the title suggests, screams at some stage in a Tremendous 8 cartridge. Birch created the epic six-minute monitor by inviting a number of feminine artists, together with experimental music pioneer Cosey Fanni Tutti and author/painter Caroline Coon, to file themselves saying the names of ladies who’ve impressed them – ladies who’ve certainly “induced hassle.”
Propelled by Birch’s springy bass and a breakneck drum machine beat, “Inflicting Hassle Once more” crescendos till a whole lot of names are being learn aloud: Nina Simone to Dolly Parton, Grace Jones to Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth I to Stormy Daniels. The result’s extraordinary – a jubilant exploration of what it means to go in opposition to society’s grain, overlaid with fuzzy guitar solos and rebellious aptitude.
GINA BIRCH – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2025
(All Dates w/ Miki Berenyi Trio)
JULY
16 – London, UK – Tough Commerce East In-Retailer
OCTOBER
10 – Washington, DC – Pearl Avenue Warehouse
11 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Corridor of Williamsburg
12 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
13 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB
15 – Toronto, ON – The Nice Corridor
16 – Ferndale, MI – The Magic Bag
17 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Corridor
18 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Membership
20 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
21 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT – City Lounge
23 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
24 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre
25 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
27 – San Francisco, CA – Nice American Music Corridor
28 – West Hollywood, CA – The Roxy Theatre
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