Karl M V Waugh: Hypnodrone osmosis + video meditations
Rashamon: Soul diving temperamental pre-apocalyptic mannerisms
Cour’en: Feminist noise EBN fusion
Karl M V Waugh presents a new Audio Visual project especially for The Spirit of Gravity.
Music | disillusiondotdotdot (bandcamp.com)
Following his album of social anxiety skewed Acid Pop (the cheekily titled ‘A Return to Form) and his whopping great mix album shortly after (‘A Form to Return’), Rashamon has been busy burrowing away at a more refined sound for his next project.
Trying to stay one step ahead of himself and beginning with ‘Cringe’ releasing on 31st October, the direction spins towards more legitimate songs in the dancehall. Having dabbled with vocals on previous tracks ‘Sudden Moves’ and ‘Honey Monster’, Rashamon has retreated behind the flourishing beats and bobs in order to conduct AI to express his thoughts on the weight of a generation in this pre-apocalyptic world.
For his live sets, however, he will be veering more into the experimental on the go remixing and introducing the world to embryonic tracks from the next album alongside updated old favourites. Expect breakbeats and bedlam, bleeps and whistles and scintillating dives into retro Futurism as Rashamon continues to plough forward with the seeds of what came before.
Cour’en (the apostrophe is a London “t” or glottal stop) is an act 35 years in the making, born of a mutual love for noisy pop and raucous electronic music. Cour’en mix raw vintage synthesisers with words & extreme guitar strangling to sum up their lives so far. The result is a blend of spartan Electronic Body Music, Noise Rock & feminism.
Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster
Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.
The Rossi Bar is a small grade II building, and they are restricted with how they can improve access for anyone with mobility issues. The live music venue is located in the basement, which can only be accessed by a short spiral staircase. More accessibility information and images of the venue are in this document:
spiritofgravity.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/The-Spirit-of-Gravity-at-The-Rossi-Bar-for-audience-members.pdf
If you can’t make it to the Rossi Bar, you can now live stream all of our gigs on our new Owncast platform at stream.gravitons.org/.
“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”
Thursday 2nd November 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA