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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 51 / January 07
·
Happenings:
TWOCSINAK
/ KOMON / RASHAMON
Marlborough
Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm,
£4/£3 concs.
twocsinak
“Wrong
Music's Peculiar Pop Person promotes his new CD”
Komon
“The
Swedish Electro-songsmith plays once before she leaves”
Rashamon
“The
Passive Aggressive monster might play some electro-psychelectronica if he
feels like it”
For
more provisional dates for the Spirit of Gravity in 2007, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
·
Greetings:
The
first Spirit of Gravity for the New Year.
Well, I'm excited.
We're also very pleased with Bobby’s comments on Huw Stephen’s Radio1
show, particularly "The Spirit of Gravity is like the austere super
ego to Wrong Music’s crazy id in Brighton’s electronic music",
before he scared the gentle late night listeners with the Minimal Impact
track "Spirit of Gravity", available from the website.
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at Wrong Music,
Volks Tavern,
Brighton,
November
Collective
Member Henry Collinz is also one of the members of Wrong Music, and
invited us to take care of the downstairs room for their November show at
the Volks Tavern. So while the likes of Chevron and The Moronic Dance
Music Association entertained at high speed upstairs, we got the chance to
let our hair down and turn the volume up. Right up.
Dan Powell started the evening off playing records, CDs and mp3s of
an increasingly random kind, 80's metal, Pharaoh Saunders and the Venetian
Snares.
The Spirit of Gravity Quartet featuring Jason T and Chris Cook
started the live entertainment for the evening. McCloud on a bent drum
machine, Steve from minimal impact on synthesiser and Dan Powell, former
notorious c.h.a.v., processing on a laptop, comprised the quartet. With
Chris in Same Actor mode and Jay from Yellow not Yellow and nost8ment
records playing violin. As with all improvised sets there was an ebb and
flow, some tasty interplay between the violin and sitar, moments of
ticking calm and bangs and rubber band boings.
Taking straight over from the Quartet Yellow not Yellow used the
violin through effects: long resonant notes laying a foundation for
wordless vocals and a cymbal hammered while flat on the floor. Hidden away
in the corner under the decks Jay had the double feature of hiding away
from the squeals of loudspeakers and the bemused wanderer seeking the
toilets wondering where the noise could be coming from. High density
orchestral drones and industrial ghost soundtracks.
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Previewing his hotly anticipated new set from Wrong Music Hot Roddy
(www.hotroddy.com/) played up a
storm of Sitar breakbeat excess. Starting with a fairly gentle Same Actor
style live processing through the laptop to link backwards to Yellow Not
Yellow, Roddy quickly amped up proceedings with some nifty fingerwork and
high intensity backing tracks. This new CD will be a corker (www.hotroddy.com/oneliners.htm).
Playing vintage kid’s Casio keyboards through analogue effects, Casio
Headbutt started with a thick proto psychedelic organ workout, cheaply
sampled voices and sirens cut in and out while the sounds swirled around
in an extremely noisy fashion. It kind of lost its way when the preset
Sleng Teng riddim kicked in before finding its feet again with a rousing
Gabba science lesson with speeded up open university gabbling over too
fast preset beats and fills. Hilarity in a tropical hat.
Minimal Impact droned straight in on the tails of Casio Headbutt,
using the climax of the Tuesday set from the Spirit of Gravity as its
starting point (i.e. quietness and subtlety) before really taking
advantage of the fact that volume was no problem and ripping in with an
evil sawtooth. This was an even higher intensity set than the time mi
tried to destroy the Volks with sound. Unbelievable. If music can be said
to be a drug, this would have been Heroin, unhealthy, addictive, delirious
and punishing. Glorious and awe inspiring in equal part. I saw people
staggering up the stairs giggling and dribbling afterwards.
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Just gearing up for a return of the Quartet with Safehouse stalwart Chris
Parfitt ready to sit in on soprano saxophone the lights came up so we
finished. www.myspace.com/safehousebrighton
And
we have mp3s of parts of some of these sets available at the SogBlog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/).
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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