Shark Calmer: A dense, polyrhythmic and occasionally absurd soundscape of blips, beeps and thwacks. Between Mandishi and a Poundshop Autechre
Asher Fynn: Darkly abstract songs about freedom, representation, and even drastic hook up stories
SARRAM: A crushing yet graceful meeting of ambient, drone, doom, jazz, electronica and minimal post-rock

Shark Calmer: Tom Clarke and Peter Marsh first met as part of a trio cranking out jazz standards in a South London pub. Though they went on to play with the likes of Alan Wilkinson, Karl Blake, Simon King and others, the pair had also begun to meet for regular sessions of lo-fi improvised electronica, armed with whatever they could dredge up. Adding occasional real drums and lap steel guitar, they’ve evolved a dense, polyrhythmic and occasionally absurd soundscape of blips, bleeps and thwacks somewhere between Mwandishi-era Herbie Hancock and a Poundshop Autechre.
sharkcalmer.bandcamp.com/

S A R R A M is the instrumental avant-garde solo project of the Sardinian based Valerio Marras, active since 2017. Expect a performance poised between heavy ambient, dronejazz, electrodoom, spoken word, tape loop and postrock.
Streaming: sarram.bandcamp.com/
“There is a sense of vacuum-esque existence parallel to ours that really gives the album its supernatural emphasis, as even though you are there in flesh to undergo it, your soul flies far away in untold spheres.” Everything Is Noise
“A sonic adventure filled with highs and lows that will challenge your very subconscious.” The Sleeping Shaman
“This album is not just engaging, but moving. (…) it is intense, emotionally vulnerable, and beautiful, such that it pulls the listener back, to pay attention” Angry Metal Guy

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

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 7th May 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

VRIHI/Lorenzo Brill: Drums & electronics between memory and transformation
Drum & Lace: Cinematic, densely textural, beat heavy
Nanonic: Dark ambient noisescapes

Lorenzo Brilli: Vrihi, from the Sanskrit “rice” is the symbolic starting point for an exploration of rhythm and voice as forms of collective memory.
Rice, cultivated through repetitive and communal gestures, becomes sonic matter — a trace of shared action rooted in practices that once intertwined labour, relationship, and listening, now redefined by automation and social fragmentation.
The live set reimagines the tracks from the homonymous album released by Esc.rec, traversing a sonic landscape that blends acoustic drumming, live sampling, and real-time electronic manipulation. Between memory and transformation, the performance reveals the living tensions between body, sound, and machine.
Lorenzo Brilli is an Italian drummer and percussionist whose work moves between jazz, improvisation, and experimental electronic music. His practice explores the relationship between acoustic gesture and electronic transformation — an investigation of rhythm, space, and the physical presence of sound. After studying drums and percussion in New York at the Aaron Copland School of Music, he expanded his research into Balinese gamelan, batá drumming, and contemporary repertoire.
His performances inhabit the fragile border between composition and improvisation, where repetition and silence shape time like a breathing organism. Brilli’s sound world is rooted in the tactility of percussion and the organic unpredictability of electronics. Whether in solo or collaborative settings, his work seeks to reveal the tension between body and machine, structure and decay, noise and resonance.
He has performed at festivals and venues across Europe, the United States, and Asia, collaborating with artists across jazz, contemporary, and experimental scenes. His latest solo project, Vrihi, was released by Esc.rec in 2025

Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri, is a Florence-raised, London-based musician and composer.
Her music takes inspiration from the natural world and is scattered with field recordings, so while the work is largely electronic there is a grounding and organic nature to every track. 2022’s debut album Natura (Past Inside The Present) found inspiration in the soil and in rolling hills, while 2023’s Frost EP (self released) captured the quiet beauty of winter. Her second LP ONDA (Fabrique Records), a dance floor-leaning record, is inspired by the ocean, with motifs of shells, sand and sisterhood present throughout. Following her second LP, Drum & Lace has released an EP of ambient vocal works called Tempora (2025) and her track ‘Marmo’ was featured on Mesh’s Lattice003 compilation.
In early 2026, Mesh announced that Drum & Lace had joined their roster with her new EP, Terra, that will be released on March 13th, 2026. Terra comprises a collection of meditations on human existence, tapping folkloric traditions and the breadth of electronic music. Using Italian lyrics for the first time, the London-based musician considers the ancient lands she grew up in, and the complex lore that overlooks nature, history, and technology.
Sofia has shared the stage with artists as disparate, and luminary, as William Basinski, Suzanne Ciani, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, black midi, Sqürl and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, while the stages she’s performed on include revered London venues like Café OTO and EartH, Moogfest, Public Records NY, Slingshot Festival and National Sawdust’s Digital Discovery Festival in the US and Festa Dell’Opera in Italy.
As a composer for film & tv, her accolades include work with AppleTV+ (‘Dickinson’, ‘All of You’), 20th Century Studios (‘Rosaline’), Lionsgate (2023’s ‘Cobweb’), NBC (‘Good Girls’, ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’) and Amazon Studios (‘Red, White & Royal Blue’).

Nanonic: Nic returns to Spirit with a new dark ambient noise set. Inspired by eldritch horror, non-euclidean geometries, vast inhospitable spaces, cyclopean in scale, abyssal in depth. Improvised electronics, fractured noise, drone.

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

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 April 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA