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Thursday 4th January at the Rossi Bar: Xylitol / Expedient Self / Plurals

Xylitol: Post kosmishche jungle techno
Expedient Self: Looping dissonance
Plurals: The return of Brighton’s premier drone artists

Brighton based producer Cat Backhouse, aka Xylitol. Jungle Techno, with elements of Bedsit Krautrock, & Minimal Electronics. Xylitol’s music channels the fiery brutalism of early grime, minimal-wave and the potting shed electronics of unsung tape-music pioneers such as FC Judd. She has soundtracked radio plays and films by Peter Strickland (who also released her second 7″ EP ‘Kunst Ist Tot’ in 2013) and Piaou Xie, collaborated with Sculpture, Belbury Poly (Ghost Box) and industrial music legends Nocturnal Emissions and recorded split releases with Gloria Gloucestershire and Libbe Matz Gang.
xylitol.bandcamp.com/

Expedient Self is a solo guitar act who plays a loop-based bastardisation of post-rock, no wave and drone. He has released two EPs and a single to date, with the latest EP – Chairs – receiving a tidy writeup in the Wire, which said that his music shows “a great sense of how to assemble discordant elements into a weirdly coherent whole.”
expedientself.bandcamp.com/

Ex-‘regulars on the UK experimental scene’ group Plurals continue their more recent ‘appearing once or twice a year if that’ path of sonic ambivalence, having recently not really noticed achieving 15 years of existence. This is their third appearance at Spirit of Gravity, yet first in over a decade, highlighting either the determination or naivety of both promoter and band. Nevertheless, Plurals’ long standing reputation for high volume noise drone catharsis remains in place, and will be coaxed into a cerebral and aural reality for all those in attendance.
Plurals have released material on Dead Pilot Records, Oaken Palace, Southern Records (Latitudes Sessions), Tor Press, Dead Sea Liner, Striate Cortex, RHP CDrs, Vacant Fulfilment, Structured Disasters, Panarus Productions and Sheepscar Light Industrial. Belgian label Silken Tofu has released a 2xCD live album, as well as a largely ambient 12″ called Tri Tone. Additionally, Plurals have issued a small number of self-releases. In April 2023 they debuted on Mahorka with the album “Growing the Sea”, released also as digipak CD edition.

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

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

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 24th December – 8.00 to 10.00pm

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 24th December 2023 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

For the December edition, a chest box of runkles and heckles from Think Twice, the Expedient the honing loops. And a ruminagory curology by DJ Cheesemaster.

“What more is there to say? it feels like the year ends every day
I look this way I look that way
piles of paper and static clay
I’m always having to ask myself if this is the one,
the one way, the one day, the one say,
Entrench the clay, under fingernail splay
grit grain and grime grabs me away
blody ell mate take me away
i’m flat stanly the cardboard felt flatten
frozen in place with no heat and no energy
not even any wind to lift me”

First hour: A chest box of runkles and heckles from Think Twice
Second hour: Hannya White – Bring Me Back / Brackets – Abate Fetel / Black Channel – Space Dome Ritual / Pekodjinn – Mezoued / Evey – Forest of Spikes / Gagarin – Ganymede / Fane – rewilder / Mi Cosa de Resistance – I lived a long time under those two clouds / Olivia Louvel – Anthropological Travelogue

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-yeongrak-dj-cheesemaster-26th-november-2023/
This month’s show includes 3 long pieces by our friends with short interludes by interesting strangers, plus an hour of tracks by Yeongrak courtesy of guest curator Think Twice

Thursday 7th December at the Rossi Bar: Yorkshire Modular Society / llaabb wwoorrkk / Secret Nuclear

Yorkshire Modular Society: In Yorkshire’s embrace, Creation through listening’s grace, Endless roots, no bounds.
llaabb wwoorrkk: Peer reviewed resonant drone experiments
Secret Nuclear: Paranoid ambience

The sound of Oxynucid aka Yorkshire Modular Society has mutated into many different forms over the course of the last two decades. Sometimes ravey, sometimes ambient but always shot through with a signature genetic strand of retro-future melodic sensibility. He’s built a devoted following throughout Europe, with recent sold out releases on Mystic & Quantum and Rossz Records, plus collaborations with Mrs Jynx (Planet Mu) and Vertical 67 (Lunar Disko / Acroplane) amongst others. Yorkshire Modular Society is truly formless, without beginning or end, like a great ashen tree beneath the Earth’s crust.

llaabb wwoorrkk: Scientific synth-gong rituals exploring the resonances and dissonances between these two forms. How do gong, singing bowls, rattles and chimes play with the analogue stylings of a reworked 1960s synth (with extra effects)? Where do these soundscapes meet and diverge? What experiences and sensations can they conjure? Sonic inner space technicians Dolly Rae Star and Simon Dell invite you to have fun finding out.

Secret Nuclear is the artist name of Surrey based musician Tim Spear. Secret Nuclear explores experimental electronic music and sound, from woozy minimalism, treated field recordings and loops through to all-out noise.
“A disturbing echo of cold war paranoia” – Electronic Sound Magazine
The debut album “The Closed Circuit” was released by WHI recordings in September. The album explores themes of surveillance, worry and an uneasy sense of being watched. It is available now from whirecordings.bandcamp.com

Hosted by our very own DJ Cheesemaster

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 7th December 2023 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

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

Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th November 2023 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This month’s show include 3 long pieces by our friends with short interludes by interesting strangers, plus an hour of tracks by Yeongrak.

First hour: Think Twice & AR Goddy Presents Yeongrak – everything should be easy (r) / Volunteers 5 (commotions) / yeyawng (waste gardeng) / fm vent (big time broken spine) / i dont fuck with, vocal cords speech patterns linguistics tongues language families s (nervegate nerveatgutogglegate) / swollen target (everyone that sauces yauces) / ground experiments (everyone that sauces yauces) / ape rottin’ (mouth mouth) / eye212121 (e) w/ cueenmask (e) / a event comes once a adfhj (big time broken spine) / rotten mound (commotions) / genes (animal protein) / cork your own creations (different weak friend every day) / radio & laptop computer & video phone is hidden in marsh1 & marsh2 near the ATP (cold brain black pineapple) / beesting (about the deepest I travelled in bed)
Second Hour: Spaghetti Blacc – Serac Collapsing Capital / Paul Khimasia Morgan – Negative Impacts / Yosuke Tokunaga – FL OORS / ascsoms – Machine Spores / Spaghetti Blacc – Decoy / Left Hand Cuts off the Right – Rotator Starts

“yeah the hider

yongrak activeates that dark breath in my ‘chest wall’
oozing (weezing) out like speaking the leaking spout

the gammar is taken off
gamma takeoff
grammes
the darkness of game

decomposition and clay retrieval

smuggling clairty in rotoscopic lava

“atrocios”

”-itis’ (disease idea)

so heavy you cuold never lift it and then it rushes your blending (flenders II) (HURLY IFLENDS)

did i give you rotten mound permissions

Bask in this knowledge bath
Basking like shark
“bath” (graey water)

talk about ‘beaks’ ‘mouth’ ‘melt’ ‘weak’

head carve
and each slice reveals hendred four new old worlds

Martin relegation hile filve

VORE spacial Em rotery

every word is subject to change, every word is subject to chance, every word is under the scent, every word is under the weight of it and under the bed, under the hill running under us like deep savage sewer
every word is in “quotations” every word is in vocalic choke hold, vocalic colic, vocalised rize and local rice

“nerve gaga”
harry ‘Plotts’
Yerng Woosh

It sounds like waste with an attention to science
It sounds like haste with slowness alliance
It sounds like taste of ceffalize nevermine

garstly expediency
running through lanes hooting
moola lanes

There is a sense of biology a nervous biologeme a biology of language
might sound silly might sound defunct but I’m rolling around
I’m rolling around in the callous victim of cartoon idea
the fallus whip
little metal script
high tide my life scrolls past
tiddle war happy leggo tiddle war
flipping to them

the body of the name and the name of the body
and so much can happyen in twenny secons
fortey naine seconds hellish remainder plain stark fish flinger

tcker tape acknowlegesys the remidner that truth remains in the length
up and down, left and right, through and through
long through my team of loose screw tighten and rubbish them the men the you
I’m led by a string of socking sound that extends beyond my many men like 50 cent
Hundred bags forteen bags the ninestyle rags the hyper ‘sags’
the usage of quotation the talking the station I’m generation I’m generating elocquation
electriquaytion

and is junking through the pile even really necessary
thats i what find mytself asking to myself
hard back dust sack must

all emerging from the darkness
nothing in the light
the dark is the hot light
this is language disbanded from the mouth mouth
language got hunted down lang dspreay

and now i want to tell everyone “shitu p” if they tell me the AI, the after space the last city in the world and The alien is getting me, i tant to tell them ‘lose you’ if you tell tme this is technology at the end, this is the game, this is ‘Japan’ i tell tehm ‘goodbye’ take the piss mate. this is not the thought from that place this is more than you could ever imagine. its within the crux and the plex, hunting from the beginning and never finding. Indle spiralling into the thicket stash. Hilling the running the lung got caught on the brush.”

End of blub

The October 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-mohammad-adam-remember-glaciers-22nd-october-2023/
This month’s show features a dark mix from Mohammad Adam, as invited by new guest editor Think Twice, plus an hour’s worth of live, generative ambience by Remember Glaciers.