Leifert: avant garde electro
Lekemo: news clips, beats and death metal samples
Marçal Xirau: ethereal melodies & raw emotional energy

Leifert is avant-garde electro outfit based in the UK. Raised on rock’n’roll, creating a shifted wall of sounds using a variety of tools, exploring and playing with wide range of fields through melodies and sound design.

Merging film/news clips, beats and death metal guitar samples into a dancey mess. Lekemo is the lynchpin o fteh Hove Electronic Music Open Mic nights, usually opening the proceedings, if you’ve been there early you’ll know what to expect, if not you’re in for a treat.

Marçal Xirau is a Catalan experimental electronic musician based in London.
He has released four EP’s and one LP since 2017. He is currently presenting his next upcoming album “Unveiled”. The first single titled “Hidden”, released on October 25, 2024, is a dreamy lullaby that offers an introduction to the sonic and emotional depth of the album. With its slow, deliberate build, “Hidden” intertwines moments of introspection with bursts of aggression. The single’s delicate yet powerful sound blends ethereal melodies with raw emotional energy.
With an artistic approach prioritising creativity in sound manipulation, resulting in a blend of ambient and beat-based sets that offer a transformative and surreal
experience for the audience.
Website: xirauofficial.com/

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 4th June 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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