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Thursday 2nd January at the Rossi Bar: Nuclear Whale / McCloud+ / Lekemo

Nuclear Whale: A story about hubris and aliens
McCloud+: Dark Drones and Darker Muttering
Lekemo: Industrial Horror Dance

Nuclear Whale will be playing selections from his new album. Jrotty Silverface is a story about Hubris and Aliens…
We reap what we sow.
menkrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jrotty-silverface

McCloud+1: Continuing his deep dive into drones and murky beats McCloud will be collaborating with a guest vocalist especially for our January show.
There is an instrumental ep of the backing tracks due out soon on The Spirit of Gravity label. You could consider this a launch party. I suppose.
spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/music

Electronic Artist & Machines That Bleed lynchpin Lekemo is based near Brighton. See them attempting to make an Industrial noisefest composed of radio/film samples, field recordings, beats and bass.
lekemo.bandcamp.com/

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 2nd January 2025 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Play at the Spirit of Gravity!

If you’re a group or artist who would like to play at the Spirit of Gravity, we have a new way to submit your music for a live event by completing this form, listing your details and providing examples of your music for us to consider. You can also use this QR code to access the form:

Please remember that if you’re on tour we’ll need as much notice as possible, as we’re often booked up months in advance.

Good luck and see you at the Rossi Bar!

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 22nd December – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 22nd December 2024 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 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.

Ascsoms – Chapter III. (Ink of the Mind) / Ghost Flights – By Industry We Flourish / Hassni Malik & Nicholas Langley – (C90 & C60 – track 06) “ ________________________”  / Ghost Flights –  Pox / Ascsoms – Chapter II. (Iridescent Scents)

For the Spirit World, Spectral Transmissions present Transmission  #09: Lord of Misrule

This months Spectral Transmission Features
RARE AND POPULAR RHYMES, PROVERBS, SAYINGS, PROPHECIES, SLOGANS AND GATHERING CRIES OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.
Midwinter: In these northern climes midwinter is a time of Inversion and strange magic. It is a time of opposites and anarchies, bright fires and feasts in the darkness and cold. A time of fortunes won and lost, visions seen, prophecies made and battles between elemental forces waged. Day turns to night and The Holly and Oak Kings, once again trade places . Spectral beings prowl the land and the Fool is made King. Midwinter, is the time of the Lord of Misrule, and the Wild Hunt. Some might think these as rude, Rough and Rusty relics of a former age.If they come, they come not: If they come not, they come.
With elements of Being & Doing 1985 by Stuart brisley and Ken McMullen and original material by Jon Colyer

The November 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-emergency-broadcasts-24th-november-2024/
The first hour of this month’s show centres around a lengthy track by Lacrima called The Horror is Your Open Mouth, framed with tracks by Melinda Bronstein and some remixes by Nicholas Langley (aka Hz). from his “Reshapes” LP on Third Kind. In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions present Transmission  #08: Emergency Broadcasts

Thursday 5th December at the Rossi Bar: Martin Chick / Resting Pulse / Melinda Bronstein

Martin Chick: Noise, beats and modular tweaks.
Resting Pulse: Apocalyptic Sounds
Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy vocals and Casiotone drones

Martin Chick: Live not dead. Modular bursts and clusters firing like sonic snipers targeting synaesthetic synapses; a strafe across your cranium to jerk your limbs to life. He’s given up lugging his bulky old synthesisers in favour of lugging about a monster modular set up, which he uses to fire up a right old racket. Just how we like it.

Resting Pulse: Andy (Monsters Build Mean Robots, Court of Hidden Faces, Winter at Sea, etc.) puts down the tools of post-rock to bring you an uneasy atmosphere & apocalyptic beats from a device that reacts as much to the surrounding environment and the performers’ own conductivity as it does to their will or programmed sequences. We witnessed this encounter of man vs. machine in the basement of The Brunswick and invited another round for the Spirit of Gravity’s stage.

Melinda Bronstein: Melancholy atmospheres, improvised vocal drone loops, casiotone, found objects, noises and toyses, magic in the mundane.
melindabronstein.bandcamp.com/music

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