Another release from Spirit of Gravity lands on 22 August – a recording debut from Screaming Alice, entitled ‘A game of three halves’. Recorded live in one take, this is a bubbling and hypnotic slice of improvised electronica from this Brighton-Hove duo (and Spirit of Gravity collectivists) Andrew Greaves and Howard Spencer. Three long form pieces of contrasting shape and texture evoke a sense of moving through an ever-changing sound landscape. There are hints of motorik rhythms, a looseness and a loucheness; you may even wish to move your feet.
Stream or downloaded from today at: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/a-game-of-three-halves
Category: Archive
Thursday 1st August at the Rossi Bar: Meljoann / Simon Pyke / Marienbad
Meljoann: Disturbing R&B, hyper-capitalist video testimonials
Simon Pyke: Presents high fidelity 4/4
Marienbad: PlunderDSP xenoarthropod ambience
Former Skam and Warp artist Simon Pyke revisits the Spirit of Gravity with a side step to his regular abstractions with a set of slow burning 4/4 dance floor meditations.
Simon has contributed to a diverse array of projects. These includes collaborating with Hans Zimmer on a surround sound installation for BMW, soundtracking a projection show at the Sydney Opera House, and complete television rebrands for SKY TV and MTV. Additionally, he has soundtracked major multi-room exhibitions, such as the Universal Everything Lifeforms show.
Simon emerged onto the scene during the wave of innovation within electronic music in the mid-1990s. During this period, he released music on various labels, including Warp Records, and graced live stages at iconic venues such as the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. He last played at The Spirit of Gravity about 18 months ago.
simonpyke.bandcamp.com/
www.freefarm.co.uk/music
Meljoann is a hyperjack producer from Ireland. Her sound pits soulful vocals against spiky lyrics; lush synths against industrial noise. In the US, her tracks have been championed by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8 and KEXP radio. Since moving to Brighton, UK she’s been supported by Gemma Bradley at BBC, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. Irish endorsement includes Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin and Tara Stewart at RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, and Hot Press.
www.meljoann.com/
faircamp.meljoann.com/
Marienbad: elements of noise, glitch, ambient, drone, field recordings and the like heavily processed.
marryinbed.bandcamp.com/
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 August 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
New release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label: Spheress – Fowl
A further release from Spirit of Gravity arrives on 1 August – from Spheress, entitled Fowl.
Fowl comprises two tracks of blunt, glacial and shimmering electronics, which contrast with the earlier, more dancefloor-friendly cuts from Spheress (aka Stan Reader-Allen).
A slow crawl builds towards cold, dark, oppressive soundscape icebergs, while stripped down, distant beats allow murky electronic noise to lap at the listener’s feet.
Stream or downloaded from 1 August at: spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/fowl
Thursday 4th July at the Rossi Bar: Teashape / Bubble People / Bagombo Snuffbox
Teashape: Reeds & loops in an evolving narrative
Bubble People: Bioscene music
Bagombo Snuffbox: Jothi meets Ascsoms… synths & tapes & noise
Teashape create live ambient soundscapes using a variety of organic acoustic live instrumentation and electronics. Blending ambient textures with folk-rooted storytelling/ songwriting, It’s like listening to a barely tuned in radio station of sonic deja vu. Building on the sonic explorations of ambient music pioneers such as Eno, William Basinski and Steve Reich, Teshape explore the phasing of loops of varying lengths, textures and harmonies to create an ever evolving narrative that grows and decays in real time.
Bubble People is a neo-psychedelic electronica act from London, UK. Helmed by experimentalist Jasper Sdougos aka Jasper Drifts, they rarely exhibit the same sound twice in their search for euphoric sonics.
@jasper_drifts
www.bubblepeople.co.uk/
Bagombo Snuffbox is a collision of Jothi & Ascsoms, a melding of synths & tapes & noise, Bagombo Snuffbox is ungooglable thanks to Kurt Vonnegut. Bagombo snuffbox have an album due out soon.
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 July 2024 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA