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Thursday 6th March at the Rossi Bar: Evey / Cederick Knox / Emma Papper & Jason Smart

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Evey: Electro post-punk meets industrial tech-noir
Cederick Knox: VHS mashup with live improv synth score
Emma Papper & Jason Smart: Electropop for those who don’t like electropop

Evey is the moniker of Brighton based musician James Eve,who makes music inspired by both the raw, focused electronics of post punkbands like Cabaret Voltaire and the playful arrangements of early RyuichiSakomoto, full of urgent, propulsive bass-energy and gloomy, cinematic breadth.

Cederick Knox will perform their ongoing and evolving VHS mashup project ‘Archive Fever’, made from chopped up 70s and 80s BBC music documentaries and old black and white news reels. Music is derived from the original film soundtracks and glitches, guerrilla field recordings of orchestras and choirs, and a live improvised synth soundtrack on a Volca FM and Stylophone theremin. Think People Like Us reimagined by Carl Stalling with the fatiguing, neurotic repetition of early Philip Glass.

Unlikely duet Emma Papper and Jason Smart; dark lords ofthe underworld, visionary poets of a lost generation, inventors of the Cadburycream egg. They are none of these things.
The follow up to Daytrip to Europa – the Night Bus toBognor

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 6th March 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 February – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

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

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

Gravity Waves: Dateless Wonder Club – I’ll let you down tonight 2nd Nico mix remixed by McCloud / Dateless Wonder Club – my name is john (1991 mix by I’m Dr Buoyant) / Dullmea – Metamorfosi / MelJoann – Translate me / Stephen Bishop – Post-Cow / Bellprover – Vibrations-on-Sea /Dateless Wonder Club – Clubless Wonder Date (An I’m Dr Buoyant mix) / Dateless Wonder Club – Where do I go from Here (Nico Mix remixed by McCloud) /Stephen Bishop – Trio for one mouth / Dullmea – Litania IV

The Spirit World: This months spectral transmission is:
FALLEN SHRINES
A New Myth
PART ONE: historical development
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The January 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-tarmac-dreams-26th-january-2025/
Music from around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, featuring 3 tracks from collective members McCloud and Ensemble 1 including the latest release on our label, followed by Spectral Transmissions: Transmission #10

Thursday 6th February at the Rossi Bar: Dale Frost / Sophie Sirota / Nanonic

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Dale Frost: Displaced/fractured polyrhythms glitched loops and electronics
Sophie Sirota: Viola, electronics, loops and ambient soundscapes
Nanonic: Drones leads to distorted bass & beats

Dale Frost: Displaced beats, fractured polyrhythms, glitched loops and tightly interwoven electronics. All underpinned by an ideology of process-based rhythmic systems. He has previously played alongside Talvin Singh, Xylitol, Memorials and The Field. Recent collaborations include Gold Panda and Benefits.
musicbyfrost.bandcamp.com/merch

Sophie Sirota is an acoustic and electric violist, singer and composer. She has worked with a diverse range of artists as a session musician, arranger and composer, including 4-Hero, D’Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks and visual artists Jeremy Millar and Sadie Hennesey. She is a member of Coastal Electronauts and performs regularly at electronics events in East Kent and London, creating ambient soundscapes using looper and effects pedals. And has released her first (live) track on the Coastal Electronauts debut release Vol.1 available on bandcamp
coastalelectronauts.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1

Nanonic: Improvised soundscapes, distorted bass, heavy beats.
Tied to the mast and incapable of rational thought, Nanonic conjures a storm of drones, seething noise, and waves of distorted bass and beats.
nanonic.bandcamp.com

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 6th February 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 26th January – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th January 2025 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

Music from around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, featuring 3 tracks from collective members McCloud and Ensemble 1 including the latest release on our label, followed by Spectral Transmissions: Transmission #10 

Gravity Waves: McCloud – Too Rage (low density dub) / Treetoad 1000 – Station II / Treetoad 1000 – Thermo / Ensemble 1 – Virtual Septet (video single) / Ghost Flights – By industry we flourish / McCloud – Too rage (Angry cicada mix) / Ghost Flights – Diagonalism / Luta – Marrow / Luta – Bone
The Spirit World: This month’s Spectral Transmission slips quietly through the slumbering city streets listening to intense whispered tarmac dreams and the quiet concrete mumbles.
“I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.”
Arthur Machen
With thanks to Ben Branangan, Cecily Devine and Xanthe Horner

The December 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-midwinter-23rd-december-2024/
This month’s show features tracks from the newest member of the Spirit of Gravity Ascsoms, from his new album “Featherteeth”, two tracks from a new album by Ghost Flight and finally a lengthy improvisation from Hassni Malik and Nicholas Langley’s digitally re-issued cassette from 10 years ago, plus Spectral Transmissions present Transmission  #09: Lord of Misrule