Author: Spirit of Gravity

Thursday 6th February at the Rossi Bar: Dale Frost / Sophie Sirota / Nanonic

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Dale Frost: Displaced/fractured polyrhythms glitched loops and electronics
Sophie Sirota: Viola, electronics, loops and ambient soundscapes
Nanonic: Drones leads to distorted bass & beats

Dale Frost: Displaced beats, fractured polyrhythms, glitched loops and tightly interwoven electronics. All underpinned by an ideology of process-based rhythmic systems. He has previously played alongside Talvin Singh, Xylitol, Memorials and The Field. Recent collaborations include Gold Panda and Benefits.
musicbyfrost.bandcamp.com/merch

Sophie Sirota is an acoustic and electric violist, singer and composer. She has worked with a diverse range of artists as a session musician, arranger and composer, including 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks and visual artists Jeremy Millar and Sadie Hennesey. She is a member of Coastal Electronauts and performs regularly at electronics events in East Kent and London, creating ambient soundscapes using looper and effects pedals. And has released her first (live) track on the Coastal Electronauts debut release Vol.1 available on bandcamp
coastalelectronauts.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1

Nanonic: Improvised soundscapes, distorted bass, heavy beats.
Tied to the mast and incapable of rational thought, Nanonic conjures a storm of drones, seething noise, and waves of distorted bass and beats.
nanonic.bandcamp.com

Live visuals by Meljoann

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

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 6th February 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 26th January – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th January 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Music from around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, featuring 3 tracks from collective members McCloud and Ensemble 1 including the latest release on our label, followed by Spectral Transmissions: Transmission #10 

Gravity Waves: McCloud – Too Rage (low density dub) / Treetoad 1000 – Station II / Treetoad 1000 – Thermo / Ensemble 1 – Virtual Septet (video single) / Ghost Flights – By industry we flourish / McCloud – Too rage (Angry cicada mix) / Ghost Flights – Diagonalism / Luta – Marrow / Luta – Bone
The Spirit World: This month’s Spectral Transmission slips quietly through the slumbering city streets listening to intense whispered tarmac dreams and the quiet concrete mumbles.
“I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.”
Arthur Machen
With thanks to Ben Branangan, Cecily Devine and Xanthe Horner

The December 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-midwinter-23rd-december-2024/
This month’s show features tracks from the newest member of the Spirit of Gravity Ascsoms, from his new album “Featherteeth”, two tracks from a new album by Ghost Flight and finally a lengthy improvisation from Hassni Malik and Nicholas Langley’s digitally re-issued cassette from 10 years ago, plus Spectral Transmissions present Transmission  #09: Lord of Misrule

Thursday 2nd January at the Rossi Bar: Nuclear Whale / McCloud+ / Lekemo

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Nuclear Whale: A story about hubris and aliens
McCloud+: Dark Drones and Darker Muttering
Lekemo: Industrial Horror Dance

Nuclear Whale will be playing selections from his new album. Jrotty Silverface is a story about Hubris and Aliens…
We reap what we sow.
menkrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jrotty-silverface

McCloud+1: Continuing his deep dive into drones and murky beats McCloud will be collaborating with a guest vocalist especially for our January show.
There is an instrumental ep of the backing tracks due out soon on The Spirit of Gravity label. You could consider this a launch party. I suppose.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/music

Electronic Artist & Machines That Bleed lynchpin Lekemo is based near Brighton. See them attempting to make an Industrial noisefest composed of radio/film samples, field recordings, beats and bass.
lekemo.bandcamp.com/

Visuals by Meljoann

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

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 2nd January 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Play at the Spirit of Gravity!

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If you’re a group or artist who would like to play at the Spirit of Gravity, we have a new way to submit your music for a live event by completing this form, listing your details and providing examples of your music for us to consider. You can also use this QR code to access the form:

Please remember that if you’re on tour we’ll need as much notice as possible, as we’re often booked up months in advance.

Good luck and see you at the Rossi Bar!