DRASS: Lynchian sinister electronics meets regrettable landlord punk
Geraldine Snell: Lofi choral sonic soothing
Tam Lin: Industrial noise, quiet ambience & displaced beats

The mysterious & legendary AI figure DRASS makes his live performance debut at The Spirit of Gravity. He has recently been making creepy AV works which can be found on social media and www.shardcore.org/spx/

Geraldine Snell is a multifaceted artist and musician from Keighley, now based in Hebden Bridge (via Edinburgh and London). Her melodic, meditative, mellifluous music makes mesmerized audiences slow down and soften to the precious vulnerability and medicinal potential of creative expression. Her sound is tender, ethereal, and hypnotic, channelling similar vibes as artists ranging from Grouper, Julee Cruise, Laurie Anderson, and Portishead to Tirzah, Cocteau Twins, James Blake, and Beach House. Inspired by eclectic influences – from classical and choral music through to dreampop and downtempo, indie and lofi, via jazz and jams in all genres – her enchanting sets promise sonic soothing and grooving. With recent highlights ranging from the release of second album Light & Love LIVE (produced on a creative retreat awarded by Britten Pears Arts Trust) and Cocoon: Eclosion EP with Debugger (Richard Knight) to performances at Spice of Life Soho, Katzpace London, and festivals across the UK, Geraldine will be releasing new music in the lead up to her third album overlove, across 2024.
Listen and stay tuned at geraldinesnell.com

Tam Lin flickers between the synthetic and organic in search of meaningful chaos. With hardware electronics and a collection of carefully chosen objects, they move between industrial noisescapes, quiet ambient, and displaced club beats.

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.

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

If you can’t make it to the Rossi Bar, you can now live stream all of our gigs on our new Owncast platform at stream.gravitons.org/.

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

Thursday 1st February 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Xylitol: Post kosmishche jungle techno
Expedient Self: Looping dissonance
Plurals: The return of Brighton’s premier drone artists

Brighton based producer Cat Backhouse, aka Xylitol. Jungle Techno, with elements of Bedsit Krautrock, & Minimal Electronics. Xylitol’s music channels the fiery brutalism of early grime, minimal-wave and the potting shed electronics of unsung tape-music pioneers such as FC Judd. She has soundtracked radio plays and films by Peter Strickland (who also released her second 7″ EP ‘Kunst Ist Tot’ in 2013) and Piaou Xie, collaborated with Sculpture, Belbury Poly (Ghost Box) and industrial music legends Nocturnal Emissions and recorded split releases with Gloria Gloucestershire and Libbe Matz Gang.
xylitol.bandcamp.com/

Expedient Self is a solo guitar act who plays a loop-based bastardisation of post-rock, no wave and drone. He has released two EPs and a single to date, with the latest EP – Chairs – receiving a tidy writeup in the Wire, which said that his music shows “a great sense of how to assemble discordant elements into a weirdly coherent whole.”
expedientself.bandcamp.com/

Ex-‘regulars on the UK experimental scene’ group Plurals continue their more recent ‘appearing once or twice a year if that’ path of sonic ambivalence, having recently not really noticed achieving 15 years of existence. This is their third appearance at Spirit of Gravity, yet first in over a decade, highlighting either the determination or naivety of both promoter and band. Nevertheless, Plurals’ long standing reputation for high volume noise drone catharsis remains in place, and will be coaxed into a cerebral and aural reality for all those in attendance.
Plurals have released material on Dead Pilot Records, Oaken Palace, Southern Records (Latitudes Sessions), Tor Press, Dead Sea Liner, Striate Cortex, RHP CDrs, Vacant Fulfilment, Structured Disasters, Panarus Productions and Sheepscar Light Industrial. Belgian label Silken Tofu has released a 2xCD live album, as well as a largely ambient 12″ called Tri Tone. Additionally, Plurals have issued a small number of self-releases. In April 2023 they debuted on Mahorka with the album “Growing the Sea”, released also as digipak CD edition.

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

Chris [Symmetrical Forces] creates live visuals for each performance using his own lo-fi footage, dusty VHS tapes and obscure videos from the internet to create futuristic images from the past overlayed with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.

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

If you can’t make it to the Rossi Bar, you can now live stream all of our gigs on our new Owncast platform at stream.gravitons.org/.

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

Thursday 4th January 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA