Author: Spirit of Gravity

2nd November at the Green Door Store: Diamond Family Archive / Motherbox / Ahtuf KONTROL / I’m Dr Buoyant

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The Diamond Family Archive
The Diamond Family Archive are an English lo-fi, psych-folk, multi-instrumentalist duo from The South Hams in Devon.
Live, The Diamond Family Archive craft a mesmeric live-show from drums, acoustic guitars, lots of FX pedals, keyboards set to drone, tape delay, loops and bellows, bows, harmonicas, cosmic harps, toys and broken cymbals. All coming together to create music which holds echos of post-rock, traditional folk, spiritual soul music, psychedelic rock and lo-fi. Foot-stomping, finger-picking, hollering vs pin-drop hush – fragile, lazy grace.

Motherbox
Brighton based synth/drum trio deliver eclectic experimental groove based sonic wisdoms and a new album to your ears. Two men play various analogue and modular synths while another shorter man drums along all whilst earnestly nodding. Eclectic electronic soundscapes with a dram of krautrock.
soundcloud.com/motherboxx-1

Ahtuf KONTROL
Dance and Radiophonics – return after a summer retreat in imagination. Another combination of emotion and vibration to see and feel.

I’m Dr Buoyant
Spirit of Gravity joint founder I’m Dr Buoyant turns out for a rare solo slot, get down early not to miss it. His set-up has been adjusted to give his live loop improvisations a somewhat darker tone, one might say in response to current world events, but probably just because it sounds good. Copies of the IDB and Ron Caines vinyl 7″ will be on sale.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/biography-of-an-exile-7-single
soundcloud.com/im-dr-buoyant

Thursday 2nd November 2017 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

I didn’t mention the bats

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September 2017
Green Door Store

Sunset Graves

Sunset Graves

I don’t properly train-spot the Sunset Graves kit, but I think there’s something modular in there, no sign of a laptop. There are thick sweet drones, the lead lines have a vague air of melancholy that channels the best early UK dance music, beats that never seem to actually loop, always evolving and slightly off centre. Pleasingly complex without losing the groove. Some proper bass that shakes my camera while I’m filming. One track from near the end has a heavyweight crush of reminiscent of Tackhead. All you can see of him is strings of red lights and thin coloured lines projected against the dark, in blocks – almost TV static. But not static.

Thomas Ragsdale

Thomas Ragsdale

Thomas Ragsdale is second up, after a quick handover, his visuals vertical lines that I can’t tell if waver with the beat or have their own lifecycle. Starkly monochrome after the neon purity of Sunset Graves’ colours. After the thick beatiness we’ve had Thomas starts pretty low key, half bass pulse and delayed piano figure with a spoken sample. There are some shiny guitar wash loops and ’89 vintage arpeggios that hint even further back to Edgar Froese, with a real sense of drama. He’s sparing with the beats, too, often a hinted at handclap scatter, or broken tambourine pattern.

¥ETI

¥ETI

Finally, we have ¥ETI, they start with just Adam, minus a good 18 inches of beard since I last saw him, hooded with some kind of Ood-like tendrils hanging out. They eschew the visuals of the rest of the evening. Adam building atmosfear with drones and Gregory Peck, and also does some good work in the lower registers. He does three numbers on his own before being joined by Tim the drummer from the Cosham Community Players Association, who basically goes the full Steve Noble: relentless hard driving free drumming, with one eye firmly on a pulse and the other ranging freely across the entire universe. They end up with a drum off between electronic and acoustic drums, which was pretty cool.

5th October at the Green Door Store: Benen / Onin / Well Hung Game

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Benen
Combining layers of ethereal guitar, distant and dystopian noise and eerie, contorted visuals, Benen constructs an impenetrable wall, drenched in waves of melancholic hope.

Onin
James L Malone – Acoustic Guitar / Electric Guitar Joe Wright – Saxophone & Dynamic Feedback James from Duck Rabbit with Joe Wright with a setup that comes from the sparer end of free improv with electronics.
soundcloud.com/verzimprint/onin-dark-star
oninduo.co.uk

Well Hung Game
James Allsopp – Baritone Saxophone / Bass Clarinet Ed Dudley – Electronics Blew us away at Splitting the Atom early in the year, with their high intensity sax and noisy processing setup.
wellhunggame.bandcamp.com/releases

Thursday 5th October 2017 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

COMING SOON:

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Tuesday 3rd October 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

The next edition of the Spirit of Gravity radio show will be broadcast on Tuesday 3rd October from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM.
https://extra.resonance.fm/

Full Spectrum Noise Special featuring classic and rare pieces from John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Iannis Xenakis and Survival Research Laboratories, plus new work from McCloud, Ben Branagan, Luke Pendrell and Eva Verhoeven.

Resonance Extra is available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world (how to listen). You can also listen online at extra.resonance.fm and directly using this link. Resonance Extra is also available via Radioplayer and TuneIn.