Author: Spirit of Gravity

Thursday 1st May at the Rossi Bar: Soborgnost / Thee Boxx Menn / Em-

Soborgnost: Lofi dubwave, dance-punk mutations
Thee Boxx Menn: Analogue Lofi tracks from alternative dimensions
Em-: Hardware and software modified for a better world

Soborgnost is sci-fi dance punk at the intersection of vaporwave, minimal wave, disco dub, industrial, EBM, proto-house, drone and noise.
Using a hardware sampler to emulate dub mixing, looping post-punk style basslines with chuggy, lo-fi beats. Warped analogue textures are added with cassette tape manipulation, electro magnetic frequency transmitters, shortwave radio, harsh noise generator and dub sirens.
soundcloud.com/spirit-data

In the shadowy corner of Brighton’s underground music scene, a pair of eccentric synth wizards emerged under the enigmatic moniker, Thee Boxx Menn. They were two renegades of rhythm and noise, rebels armed with synthesizers and the wild spirit of lo-fi experimentation.
Thee Boxx Menn were more than an electronic act. They were architects of sound, dream weavers, and the harbingers of a new sonic era a legacy unfolding between the lines of melody and harmony, waiting to resonate in the hearts and minds of those who dared to listen.
Crafting lo-fi tracks that felt like transmissions from alternate dimensions. Their live shows became legendary. They’d cloak the stage in mist, their silhouettes obscured as the pulsing synths and eerie melodies carried audiences on otherworldly journeys. Each performance felt like a ritual, a communion between human creativity and the forgotten whispers of technology.
Music held powers far beyond their understanding. Thee Boxx Menn didn’t just make music; they became the medium through which otherworldly energies found their voice.
www.instagram.com/theeboxxmenn
www.theeboxxmenn.bandcamp.com

Em― presents a live electronic music performance that revels in the whimsy and ferocity of continuously evolving ideas, consisting of dense synthetic textures, playful glitchy grooves and moments of accelerating chaos.  Behind the wheel is musician and electronic music producer June Kiff, utilising her live music ecosystem, “emsys”, composed of drum machines and various custom devices, in service of the transformation of nonsense.
emdash.bandcamp.com/
www.junes.website/music/live

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 1st May 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 27th April – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 27th April 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour will be a live set from Gagarin recorded at the Ecomusicology project in Stanmer Organics at a volunteer event last April. It turned out to be his last show in Brighton and is rather lovely, ending with a version of ”Stanmer” from the exact location it was written. There will also be some music from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity:
Gagarin live at The Ecomusicology Project, Brighton April 2024 / Hannya White – Holding it down in Mexico / Ugly Animal – Headfirst (Crowbar) / Lee Ashcroft – Waypoint (with Gemma Oakley)
The second hour will be the first edition of a new 6 month guest slot from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit (OCRU).

The March 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-communiqu%C3%A9-12-broadcasts-from-the-subterranean-23-march-202/
This month’s Gravity Waves segment involves music from around the orbit of the Spirit Of Gravity including a couple of tracks from collective member Meljoann‘s new album and a long piece from local label Difficult Art And Music. The Spirit World consists of the final communication from Spectral Transmissions, Communiqué 12: Broadcasts from the Subterranean

Thursday 3rd April at the Rossi Bar: RDyer / Andrew Greaves & Dan Powell / Lee Ashcroft

RDyer: New songs! Sadder! Seventh chords!
Andrew Greaves and Dan Powell: Gravity stalwarts up to some new tricks
Lee Ashcroft: Mournful bass, lethargic rhythm: a journey through the haze of physical & mental exhaustion

RDyer has: New songs! Sadder! Darker! Seventh chords! Inversions!
Polyrhythms on harp, more drones, electric guitar,  more plaintive singing, stripped back maybe but not guaranteed. More feedback, distortion and weird noises. But also still songs. And probably the Canary song.
The possibility of a big harp with machines on it.
rdyermusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-victories

Depending on who you ask, Lee Ashcroft is either a musician, writer, social care worker, artist, theremin player, autistic man, internet radio host, 2-time loser of BBC’s Pointless, or 1-time member of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu. He lives with his partner in North Essex, UK.
Among other pseudonyms too numerous and irrelevant to mention, Lee has previously recorded and performed as 00’s bootleg/mashup provocateur/nuisance Mixomatosis, recording for egalitarian netlabel Digital Vomit, Austrian experimental label Hirntrust Grind Media, and Stockport’s legendary V/Vm Test Records, while lip-syncing aggressively to audiences across the East and South East of England throughout the decade. He also recorded and performed as The Nearly, releasing 2011’s ‘Cathode Rave’ for El Perro Rojo Records, a 9-minute album which, depending on which zines you read, either represents “the future of pop music” or makes you “feel physically sick.” ‘Persons Underground’ is the first album he has recorded under his birth name.
As well as performing music, Lee currently writes for American online publication In Spite Magazine and hosts a 4-weekly radio show for French internet station CAMP Radio, both under the name One Man Underground.
www.onemanunderground.co.uk
www.facebook.com/onemanunderground
www.instagram.com/1manunderground

Andrew Greaves and Dan Powell are both Brighton based musicians with a background in experimental music and sound art. Their first collaboration was Inside Journeys, a residency which explored the physical and historical spaces occupied by The Rose Hill as an arts space, a pub, and a building.
You can find out more about the residency and listen to the album here: www.therosehill.co.uk/artists/1822-171122-dan-powell-amp-andrew-greaves-inside-journeys
Improvisation takes centre stage in Andrew and Dan’s new work, a follow-up to their collaboration on Inside Journeys.  The duo’s partially improvised piece is framed by pre-recorded conversations exploring their musical thinking, creating a dynamic interplay between planned and spontaneous elements from the very start.

Bio information:
Dan Powell is a sound artist who uses field recordings, handmade and proprietary electronics and amplified objects. His main interest is exploring places which have a particular personal resonance. He has released a couple of albums of sound art on Crónica as well as being active in electro-acoustic improvisation in London and Brighton, playing with Gus Garside in The Static Memories, and Chris Parfitt in Nil. Currently he performs as part of Muster with James O’Sullivan.
linktr.ee/dannnad

Andrew Greaves is an active member of both the Spirit of Gravity and the Safehouse improvisation collectives. Andrew’s pieces combine melodic analogue electronic  improvisations within layered settings. Employing minimalist repetition and collages of manipulated found sounds. Andrew’s works explore memory and recollection and the process of subconscious influences arising within spontaneous improvisation. Andrew believes each of us hold an incalculable library of memories, forming a unique fingerprint of influences and perspectives. His work seeks to access this resource via improvisation to create instant compositions.His work has been used in film, both in the form of live soundtrack performances and produced soundtrack scores.

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

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 23rd March – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 23rd March 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Details to follow

The February edition of the Spirit of Gravity Radio show is available on the ResonanceFM Mixcloud page:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/feb-gwtsw/-and-the-spirit-world-tarmac-dreams-26th-january-2025/
This month’s Gravity Waves segment features tracks from one of the founders mixed by another, plus more remixes from McCloud, something new from Spirit of Gravity member MelJoann, plus music from around our orbit, and in the second hour we feature Spectral Transmissions #11: Fallen Shrines.