Month: June 2021

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 27th June – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 27th June 2021 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

We were sorry to find out that Rowan Forestier-Walker, better known to us as Embla Quickbeam, sadly died last week. She’d been ill for a while and passed in the company of her husband in a cabin they’d been refurbishing down in Cornwall. She was one of life’s decent people an artist of singular vision and always a pleasure to have play.

When we moved to the Green Door Store she was the first artist to play, and the first artist we asked to play. Her sets were rather like her in the end, rather lovely, full of depths and just gone far too soon.  She will be missed by all of us who knew her.

Sound Artist Jez riley French has written this obituary for The Wire: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/rowan-forestier-walker-1977-2021

Our radio show this month starts with two Embla Quickbeam pieces, one from record and one live set from Splitting The Atom.

The rest consists of music from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity, including more tracks from Elliptical Orbits, our commemorative 20th Anniversary compilation:

Embla Quickbeam – Gloam Mirror / Embla Quickbeam – Live at Splitting The Atom / Andrew Greaves – Organ Improvisations / Mathematical Tile – Ladies’ night (uncle Perce’s mix) / Yudd Habb – Butterfly sandwich / Cutlasses with Duncan Speakman – Return Carrier / Barker – E7-E5 / Same Actor – The Current State of Play / Map 71 – Girlface Occupation / Melancholic Tantrum Robots – Ritual / Monzen Nakacho – Death Spiral / Cutlasses with Amy Cutler – Wolf moon / Ingrid Plum feat Lisa Jayne and Ben Graham – Running with wolves / Resonant Blue – Gilded

The May edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-may-2021-sunday-23rd-may-2021/

This month’s show presents a guest mix from Spheress featuring music made by young producers in Brighton alongside more established artists.

Fourth Spirit of Gravity online streaming event: June 2021

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Featuring Kieran Mahon / Rdyer / Melancholic Robot Tantrum / Andrew Greaves

Kieran Mahon: This piece was made and recorded especially for Spirit of Gravity and was entirely improvised in one take. It is a repetitious cosmic drone, based on two very simple sequences and a lot of random modulation. Over the last year I have found increasing inspiration from the music of Michael O’Shea  – this piece owes a lot to him. It would be best listened to on headphones.
www.kieranmahon.com

Rdyer uses saxophone, saw, harp, found sounds, tape samples, looped vocals and synth to create mesmerising baroque pop laced with chaotic improvisation.
soundcloud.com/r-dyer-uk
rdyermusic.bandcamp.com/

Melancholic Robot Tantrum: Industrial tinged electronic music for robots & humans.
melancholicrobot.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Greaves is a Brighton based musician, visual artist and member of the Spirit of Gravity. His work over the past decade has focussed on electronic minimalism, keyboard improvisation, live film soundtracks and sound collage. During the past year, Andrew has set aside his intense Casio organ improvisations; central to his previous work, in favour of layered analog synth sequences, arpeggios and loops. Andrew is exploring the meditative effects of gradual melodic and harmonic development, where multiple elements build, mesh, shift, vie for dominance, ebb and flow. Andrew starts his June show performance with some synthesiser improvisations intertwined with a collage of found cassette recordings of his father’s classic tenor voice. Andrew’s melodic approach at times recalls the simple and brittle themes of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band and Robert Wyatt. While his more intense improvisations seem a contemporary development on the works of Terry Riley, Suzanne Ciani or Mike Ratledge. The use of non-western scales is a constant and Andrew acknowledges the influence of African, Indian and Far Eastern musics on his work and its wider impact on all kinds of minimalism, experimental and electronic musics. This mix of influences and approaches can be heard on his most recent album “Works From Home”, just released on the Spirit Of Gravity Bandcamp label.
For this event, Andrew hopes to recapture a little of the feeling of an intimate performance at the Spirit Of Gravity show in the basement of Brighton’s Rossi Bar.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com

Stream visuals by midierror: soundcloud.com/midi-error
Incidental music provided by midierror and Kristoffer Lisgaard: https://www.kristofferlislegaard.com