ROSIE RIDGWAY     SOUND DESIGNER / MULTIMEDIA ARTIST / FACILITATOR         



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RAVIOLI ME AWAY


“ Ladies called Ravioli Me Away. It’s my heart aching. It’s the sound of. ..  They remind me of so much I love about the world: I could reel off lists of names like protective dressage, all bondage armour but I am just a cipher, a vaccuum at the other end of a meaningless conversation. I mean, you want descriptors? Why would you want descriptors? Their sound describes their own sound so much more obliquely than I ever could.” - Everett True



Performing at Wysing Arts Centre Music Festival, 2015


Albums



View From Behind The Futurstic Rose Trellis, 2019 - Wysing Records


What about this?...
Are you really here?
If you are, then how do you know you are?
Are you looking for confirmation in the eyes of the person sitting next to you?
Do they know you?...and if so how do they recognise you?
Is it from your jacket? Your hairstyle? Your dependable moral compass, witty remarks or bad breath?
RMA invite you to experience TVFBTFRT, a poetic, vivid and generous multimedia extravaganza that creates a stylistic and comical portal celebrating life and all who perpetually squirm in it.
An experience that offers escapism from escapism! ...a genuine contempt for continuity and a true disdain for brain bloating its audience with a standardised straightforward narrative.
A soundtrack to everything and a monument to nothing, TVFBTFRT sings and dances its way enthusiastically through inner and outer realities sifting through its characters to reveal moments of golden clarity to be shared by all.
Watch carefully now... look there through the leaves! ...it’s YOU! ...ME! ...and every his her and them slurping from the hot steamy saucepan of consciousness! Bon appetit friends, when you wake up tomorrow you might be someone else.

Includes unlimited streaming of The View From Behind the Futuristic Rose Trellis - Opera via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more
credits 

Released September 2, 2019

Produced by Ravioli Me Away and Tom Hirst

Track 13 written by Ben Wallers.

Recorded at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2017.

Engineered by Charlotte Poulet.

Tracks 03, 09, 11, 14 recorded at Soundsavers, London 2018.

Engineered by Mark Jasper 2018.

Mastered by Jamie Greer, Glasgow.

Album artwork by Adam Sinclair, Jack Barraclough, Stefan Sadler and Ravioli Me Away

©Ravioli Me Away HQ 2019 




Living is a Myth, 2016 - Upset the Rhythm

‘Living is a Myth’ is an incredible album, exploring symptoms of society through its overlapping patterns of ideas and music. Always inventive, clatter-some drumbeats drive the songs ever onwards, whilst the bass plunges through the fantastical worlds emerging from the woozy pools of formidable keyboard tone. RMA see themselves as agents, pointing out phenomenon and responding to it. This is conducted largely through the band’s contagious approach to song. Melody and reiteration are at the forefront, with Dorrer’s wordplay and sublime delivery racing through the songs with effortless style. Ridgway and Theobald also contribute stunning vocals, often unpinning the songs with surreal refrains and caustic angles. Moving onto the topics covered on the album, Ravioli Me Away have mutual interests in identity, politics, human relationships, love, gender, class and current affairs, and use their songs as a means to explore, debate and express such interests, using metaphor, clichéd pop references and repetition.

“I’m nostalgic for now, I travelled far ahead, I’m looking back with great affection – at this moment” sing RMA on the album’s title track. It’s hard to imagine a lyric that more perfectly encapsulates what RMA are all about. Ravioli Me Away provide the commentary to our internal narrative as we edge through life from one nostalgic moment to the next. They witness, comment and thus help us identify the means by which we must escape ourselves. - Chris Tipton (Upset the Rhythm)

creditsreleased January 10, 2016

Released on Upset The Rhythm and recorded at NO studios by John Hannon, 2016.
Special Thanks to Dan Mitchell and Monika Kroll.





The Inevitable Album, 2016 - Good Job Records 




RAVIOLI ME AWAY – BIO

Un-defined by genre, Ravioli Me Away’s high energy, dangerously ambitious and delusional jazzy-post-pop-punk-hip-funk sound with stylistically erratic motifs span all-known past, present and future human cultures and sub-cultures. This is social realism soaked through with a heady dose of fantasy, idiosyncratic poetics, keyboard flurries and vocal vicissitudes.
Ravioli Me Away are Sian Dorrer, Rosie Ridgway and Alice Theobald.

Since forming in January 2013, they have performed extensively at various events, venues, festivals and galleries in the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic and Holland. They have also recorded and released records and appeared on radio shows on 6 Music, WFMU, Resonance FM and NTS Radio.

Theobald, Dorrer and Ridgway have each been involved in the UK DIY post-punk and electronic music scenes for over a decade and formed through a mutual absurdist humour and approach to exploring identity, politics, human relationships, love, gender, class and current affairs. Using performance, art and music, their lyrics and stage presence are loaded with pop references, metaphor, satire and cliché. To date they have together written and produced up to 30 songs and have performed over 80 concerts, each high-energy and curated to reflect a different theme inspired by everyday life eg, City workers, beauty queens, sportsmen and beatnik poets to more abstract interpretations of everyday life such as luggage, snacks and e-bay. More recent performances have been iterations of their own individual alter-ego/characters.

***Ravioli Me Away see and explore symptoms of society. We see ourselves as agents that point out phenomenon and respond to it. We try to sift though it and respond to the surface by challenging audiences perceptions and expectations.
Supporting The Fall Brixton Electric April, 2015


PERFORMANCE HISTORY AND DISCOGRAPHY.
Live performances have included shows at and affiliated with galleries including: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; Arnolfini, Bristol; S1 Gallery, Sheffield; Pilar Corrias, London; Fuse Arts Space, Bradford; Lima Zulu, London; Reunion gallery, Zurich; PLATO, Ostrava City Art Gallery, Ostrava. Played at DIY Spaces that support performance and music including: Power Lunches, London; GoodJob, London; Open School East, London; DIY Space For London.

Festivals including Supernormal, Oxfordshire; Supersonic, Birmingham; Wysing Music Festival, Cambridge; Theadfest, Bradford; Ecoutes au vert, Geneva. Commercial music venues such as The Lexington, The Victoria, The Macbeth as well as supporting legendary post-punk band The Fall at Electric Brixton. RMA have also played various charity events including The Beautiful Octopus Club (Heart n Soul) at The South Bank Centre, London and FGM Awareness fundraiser event hosted at The Ritzy Picture House Cinema and have toured the UK three times and across Europe twice.

In 2014 Ravioli Me Away released their first 12" LP ‘The Inevitable Album’on Good Job Records, had a split 180 gram vinyl record released by independent label Upset The Rhythm, and a Limited Edition tape of live recorded material produced by Ben Wallers of The Country Teasers/The Rebel released on Neen Records. Ravioli Me Away have also appeared on various compilations by independent labels including a 12" record by Brighton based label Riots Not Diets.

In September 2016, RMA released their second album, ‘Living is a Myth’ with Upset The Rhythm.

Ravioli Me Away recently toured their first Opera The View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis which launched in Feburary 2019. A full film iteration of the Opera is coming soon. Following the sucess of the Opera emerged H.M.S RMA with the release of Naughty Cool – club remix reworkings of selected tracks from The View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis, released by ALTER in 2021.

SELECTED PRESS.

Niki Russell, “Ravioli Me Away; The View From Behind The Futuristic Rose Trellis”, review, Art Monthly March Issue 424

Ravioli Me Away, Garden of Earthly Delights, feature by Tessa Norton, The Wire, Issue 421 - March 2019

Ellen Marra De Watcha, “Block Universe and the Meaning of Post-dance”, Frieze online, June 2019
https://frieze.com/article/block-universe-and-meaning-post-dance

Robert Barry, “Is Stockhausen’s Licht The Most Operatic Spectacle Ever?”,  The Quietus, May 14th 2019
https://thequietus.com/articles/26445-karlheinz-stockhausen-licht-opera

Below The Radar 25, The Wire Online
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-25/7

Collapse Board, The return of Everett True| 154. Ravioli Me Away, by Everett True, June 3, 2015
http://www.collapseboard.com/song-of-the-day-2/the-return-of-everett-true-154-ravioli-me-away/

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham 2015, Friday Night Live Review, Adrian Bloxham, June 2015
http://louderthanwar.com/supersonic-festival-2015-birmingham-friday-night-live-review/

Louder Than War, RMA/The Fall/ Ye Nuns, Gig review, Sept 2014
http://louderthanwar.com/ye-nuns-ravioli-me-away-brixton-electric-26th-september-2014-live-review/

RMA, Guest Mix for Tiny Mix Tapes, Sept 2014
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/mix-guest-mix-ravioli-me-away-the-inevitable-mix?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Norman Records, Inevitable Album, Review, 2014
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/149962-ravioli-me-away-the-inevitable-album-

Garageland, Wysing Arts Centre, Space-Time Music Festival review,  September 2014
http://garagelandmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/space-time-future-at-wysing-arts-centre.html#more

Quietus, Wysing Arts Centre, Space-Time Music Festival review, 2014
http://thequietus.com/articles/16151-wysing-festival-review

This Is Tomorrow, Wysing Arts Centre, Space-Time Music Festival review, 2014
http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/wysing-arts-centre-annual-festival-space-time-the-future

Slate The Disco, Wysing Arts Centre, Space-Time Music Festival2014
http://slatethedisco.com/2014/09/review-wysing-annual-music-festival-space-time-the-future/

Interview, Wysing Arts Centre, Space-Time Music Festival, 2014
https://soundcloud.com/pelham-communications/wysing-space-time-festival-2014

Louder Than War, Playlist, July 2014
http://louderthanwar.com/listen-playlist-from-brilliant-post-punk-trio-ravioli-me-away/

Louder Than War, Inevitable album Review, 2014
http://louderthanwar.com/ravioli-me-away-the-inevitable-album-album-review/

Quietus, Riots not diets comp
http://thequietus.com/articles/15882-various-artists-i-know-why-the-caged-girl-sings-review

The Monitors, Album review
http://www.the-monitors.com/2014/08/21/ravioli-away-inevitable-album/

Tiny Mix Tapes, review, July 2014
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-ravioli-me-away-cat-call
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