The latest re-release from the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label is the 2008 compilation, created following a failed attempt to organise a festival in partnership with Wrong Music. “Festival 2008” includes tracks from ‘Gravity members including Sh*tmat, and more than one track provided by Steve ‘minimal impact’ in various guises.
Available now to stream and download from spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/festival-2008
Dhangsha: The return of Noise Dancehall fusion
Ingrid Plum: Voice / synth: “Corporeality” album launch!
Evey: Percussive electronics on a hardware tip
With apposite live visuals by Symmetrical Forces, overlaid with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.
Thursday 3rd November 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
Gravity Waves and the Spirit World
Sunday 23rd October 2022 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/
Details to be confirmed
The September 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-september-2022-25th-september-2022/
In this episode, music from around The Spirit of Gravity – compilations from Difficult Art And Music, Abstrakce Records, along with Shit Creek who played at our last show. The second hour features two extended audio works: a hallucinogenic sound essay by Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, and a strange and spectral track from Mark Leckey’s 2019 exhibition at Tate Britain.
I am Fya: From Manchester comes I am Fya, with her low End Textures, field recordings and sound system culture, steeped in Barbadian influences
MelJoann: Creepy avant-pop songs from Ireland’s MelJoann; disorientating AV and wellness cult recruitment are part of her weird world.
Gus Garside: 3 very different pieces for double bass and electronics from the improv and free jazz stalwart, on a solo outing away from Arc and other recent fertile collaborations
With apposite live visuals by Symmetrical Forces, overlaid with out-of-reach memories and vague fragments of lost visions.
Thursday 6th October 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
Gravity Waves and the Spirit World
Sunday 25th September 2022 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/
Music from around the Spirit of Gravity – compilations from Difficult art and music, Abstrakce Records, along with Shit Creek who played at our last show. The second hour features 2 extended audio works: The Hallucinogenic spoken word ambient essay from Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, and the strange and spectral audio track from Mark Lecky’s (fairly) recent exhibition at Tate Britain.
Elise Plans – Cantoo (Everything Lasts Forever…) / Distant Animals – Wolfams (Public Sector Prisons…) / Anatomy of the Heads – Drama at Spirit Lake (Everything Lasts Forever…) / Beattie – Canon – Hignell – 48 (Brexshitting) / Shit Creek – ancestral vision of fibre optic cable / Shit Creek – ash song/ Map71 – One-Dimensional Bang (Fourth Dimension Dub) / Ariel Kalma – Yin Yang / Jeff Greinke – Their Secret Game / Noteherder and I’m Dr Buoyant – Restless head / Shit Creek
Mark Leckey – O Magic Power of Bleakness / Mark Fisher and Justin Barton – On Vanishing Land Side A/Side B
The August 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-august-2022-28th-august-2022/
This month’s show was taken from music around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, friends of friends and beautiful strange music we found online, including Emily McWilliams, Richard Youngs and Phillipe Petit
The Spirit of Gravity Presents:
Electric Ape: A one off set of drones and beats
Yes Indeed: Fuggy, soaring & out of place
Shit Creek: Happy drone, maximalist pop-skronk freakouts
Ingrid Plum is unfortunately unable to appear.
Yes Indeed are Laurie Tompkins & Otto Willberg. Live, they play keys, bouncy bass and sing over tactile, emotive samples. The music is fuggy and soaring, deliciously out of place. On 2021’s ‘Exorcise’ EP, ratty violin, syrupy bass and foolish voices congealed over a backbone of co(s)mic spinnet and pit percussion. Boomkat rightly dubbed it “proper mad scones”. ‘Rotten Luck’ – a sodden, diaristic epic and YI’s first album proper – is out in September 2022.
Laurie is a composer, helps run the Slip label and has put out CDs on Entr’acte, 33-33 and Hyperdelia this year. Otto is a bassist, plays in groups with Ashley Paul & Charles Hayward and has an LP coming on Upset The Rhythm with his great band Historically Fucked.
Shit Creek are shimmering electronics, gleeful pulsing drone, violin screech and/or chopped-up pop songs. Join psychedelic noisenik Shit Creek on an improvised trip to euphoria town. Probably violin, guitar and some keyboards/pedals in there – it’ll start on a drone and then build
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.
Thursday 1st September 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
Gravity Waves and the Spirit World
Sunday 28th August 2022 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/
This month’s show is taken from music around the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity, friends of friends and beautiful strange music we found online:
Emily McWilliams – silver.orange.rose.silver. – zzz – silver.orange. – z – silver. / Jef Guillon – ECUME / Richard Youngs – Koln Diary / Map 71 – One-Dimensional Bang (Fourth Dimension Dub) / Mahler Haze – Regimental Goat (Geezer Burton Dub Mix) / KleistWahr – Take The Low Road / Band of Pain – Withered Beetle / Philippe Petit – Creatures Inside The Planet Human
The July 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-july-2022-sunday-23rd-july-2022/
Another bumper crop from the infamous Brighton sonic arts collective; featuring a new and epic long-form work from Kieran Mahon.