I’ve been a bit busy so haven’t finished off everything for July yet, but we do have some video of teh amazing sets from Dan Powell and Gus Garside; plus Oli Mayne, Thanos Chrysakis and James O’ Sullivan.
Unfortunately the advertised Jilke and Tulin Fee couldn’t make it (part of a recurring dream).
So Anyway Oli and his crew:
Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan
Travelling backwards through time we rounded off the evening with a powerful set from Power Up, violin drones and patters, casio organ fusillades and beats raging from stomach settling to ear tugging.
Heres an unnamed treat from the quieter end of the spectrum.
The Vainglories provided a scary turn, spooky piano’s and eldritch scratches set against _minimalVectors shadowplay of birds trees and moon.
This piece is called “paper birds”.
Starting the evening in a very low key was Casio Headbutt with echoes, casio and field recordings.
This segment of the performance is called “Junglistic Casiosweep”.
And then some video of The Vainglories and Power Up from the myspace page.
May was a packed event, lots to pack in and a wide variety of things.
But only after first making some notes……
Les Dins
Hitting the floor running. Or dancing was Les Dins. Many moons ago the brains behind _minimalVector made quite popular house records. Now plundering the stores near his hideaway in Picardy for Nino Nardini records he’s gone back to his roots. Sort of.
Then Chris Cook of Same Actor and Hot Roddy fame (link to wrong cd) linked up with Chris Parfitt of 21 Grams and Noteherder & McCloud for a semi improvised microtonal piece featuring Soprano Saxophone and processed Sitar. Video below, no decent pictures I’m afraid. But heres some audio.
Jammed in at the last minute we had a special appearance from nwodtleM, Canada’s king of the cassette cutup. This time cutting up video footage to make music. A technique he obscurely calls “Jawa”. It works as funny video montage, and bizarrely, sounds just like nwodtleM.
Capping the evening off we had a return of the excellent Meat Dream from Eastbourne. A male/female DiY noise-art guitar and drums duo with electronics and processing. Not at all like the white stripes.
Not at all.
The Disco Tears bought their own lightshow, which was handy as we had severe technical problems and NO _minimalVector.
So laptops, melodica, cornet, effects and a film combine to mixed effect.
For a masterclass in controlling feedback see the footage below, for the rousing climax toi their set listen to this mp3
We forgot to move Con Brio out from behind the PA, so Steve who took the pictures was a little unsighted.
Didn’t stop us enjoying the sounds though, and we can all close our eyes and dream to stuff like this.
Rounding off the evening in near darkness from his spot on the floor was o.m.s.-n.m.a. Hard to describe the murky yet strangely uplifting soundscapes from Belgium.
march 2008, Bemass and T-Toe video.
Niiiiice.
Bemass
T-Toe
The much anticipated UK début of bemass, postponed from November along with other electronic and acoustic madness.
In Sand and T-toe.
In Sand is another of Gus Garside’s many aggregations. Gus on double bass, Richard Padley on guitar, Thor Magnussen on laptop and Danny Kingshill on Cello (missing Satoko Fukuda on violin on this occasion).
This being The Spirit of Gravity we played up the laptop slightly more than usual for this chamber quintet.
T-Toe is Terry, he plays trombone and laptop Coming from a more breakbeat background he showcased the trombone slightly more than usual.
I know the name of this tune!
bemass are Bela Emerson from Brighton and Magnus Alexanderson and Sten Sandell from Sweden. This was their first ever show in the UK and went to extremes in just about every way.
HDTV video by _minimalVector
Bemass live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.
T -Toe live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.
In Sand live at the Spirit of Gravity 25.03.2008. Visuals by _minimalVector. from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.