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Dispatches from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 53 / March 07
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig:
Tuesday 27th March 2007
Spirit of Gravity presents
An evening of String Theory:
CHEVRON / BELA EMERSON / GUS PLUS
Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.
Chevron
The fearsomely imaginative Plant Mu artist will be eschewing the
restrictive practice of beats and bass to bring a unique set from the
further reaches of his musical imagination.
Bela
Emerson
‘Bela
and her cello exude the intimate intensity of two lovers utterly at ease
with each other’
Passionate
and exciting, both musically and visually, Bela Emerson captivates
audiences with her unique performances using electric cello, realtime
samples and guitar effects. Her solo performances are the stuff of legend:
spontaneous, intense, and exhilarating. Layers of rhythm and sound are
created from every bit of the instrument, to spellbinding effect. Bela has
three solo releases, has recently toured Germany & the UK,
collaborated with VJs and contemporary dancers, and shared bills with A
Silver Mount Zion and Juana Molina amongst many others.
Gus
Plus
The legendary bass player and member of the Safehouse collective will be
playing with Dan Powell and either Caleb Madden or minimal impact and Thor
Magnusson in the second part of a series of shows exploring the
interaction of the cerebral and the physical. GUS GARSIDE is involved in
many projects including IN SAND (which also features Thor Magnusson, the
Icelandic writer, musician and artist/programmer) and ARC
"Indispensable for its profound beauty" Impro Jazz, France.
"Where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of
sonorities he conjures from his instrument" (Penguin Guide to Jazz on
CD).
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
Other
things happening:
Safehouse (www.myspace.com/safehousebrighton):
Roger Turner (percussion): the amazing percussionist whose list of
collaborations is a who's who of improvising including Elton Dean, Lol
Coxhill, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Joelle Leandre and many others.
·
Greetings:
The
ElMaes remix CD available for downloading from www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm060.htm
described as "Ouroboric" by The Wire, "Scary" by Rob
Da Bank and "fabulous" by the Black Sweater White Cat blog
(biotic.blogspot.com/2007/03/bswc-one-day-elmaes-5-cookie-five-goes.html).
Several Collective members will be involved in "National Noise
Day" 31st May 2007 (www.national-noise-day.co.uk/)
AND at last we have a MySpace page, so you can be our friend. If you like.
www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
The MySpace page has previews of our next Compilation CD, and will feature
recordings by collective members, rather than the mp3 blog which will
continue to showcase mp3s and pictures from recent Spirit of Gravity
shows.
Oh, and we're in the Marlborough Theatre’s Fringe Festival brochure even
if we're not playing during the festival period proper. Nice picture of
minimal impact in full flow, I believe.
I think that's all.
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton,
Tuesday 20th February
That
Fake Bureaucracy
were Untony Rimbaud and Notnick Rilke, Rimbaud found the helicopter
setting on his SH101 and filtered out from there, building intensity and
volume while Rilke murmured about a girl who looked at Miro in a park. 10
minutes brief.
Komuso Buddha Machines were Komuso, with some Buddha machines and a
wonderful Zoundz toy, with Caleb sitting in for the usual Cliff on FX. The
Zounds stole the show, providing wonderful space-age sounds with a great
SF look as the pieces glow in eth near dark while held gently above the
base unit. The Buddha machines were scattered about the audience providing
ambience and hallucinatory counterpoint to the whooshing and boings
emanating from the stage. We like audience participation
Which was handy as next up we had Hot Roddy Bingo. Providing
everyone with a bingo card and stack of counters, Chris demonstrated his
calling technique and tracks from his new CD due on Wrong Music very soon.
20-30 second bursts of Hot Roddy Music "all the twos, Twenty Two, two
little ducks - Quack Quack, Twenty Two". Very funny and quite
bizarre, especially as kept slipping in excerpts from the Elvis covers CD,
too.
Oh yes, he DID play the sitar.
KeyKeeper+Tempos was Jandek drunk on Leffe with electronic boops
scaling behind him, burning at the plastic guitar with some kind of baby
drill, and singing and playing the guitar as if it could sustain proper
chords. outsidered electro-folk drones done beatless and boosted with
alien love.
Or, as you may be able to hear on the mp3 at the sogblog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/)
"It sounds like Danny and the Dressmakers crossed with The Butthole
Surfers. In Space"
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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