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Thursday 6th January at the Rossi Bar: Meljoann / R. Dyer / Iplu

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Featuring: MELJOANN / R. DYER / IPLU

Meljoann: dystopian pop, disorientating noises, corporate video testimonials
R. Dyer: odd songs built from memories and stray kit
Iplu: abstract electronica and minimalist ambient improv for the bain malt.

R. Dyer uses saxophone, saw, harp, found sounds, tape samples, looped vocals and synth to create mesmerising baroque pop laced with chaotic improvisation.
soundcloud.com/r-dyer-uk
rdyermusic.bandcamp.com/

Originally from Dublin, Meljoann produces experimental electronic pop. In her latest single ‘Assfuck the Boss’, she explores the “stockholm syndrome of the employed”. Her sound has been described as “like a long-lost soul-pop album from the mid-1990s as remixed by Aphex Twin” (Eamon de Paor, Metro Herald)
About her latest album “HR” Pitchfork say: “In its social venom and unsparing bleakness, the album’s closest peer is probably U.S. Girls’ In a Poem Unlimited. But HR is both a one-woman show and a far less heady one: too furious for subtlety.”
boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/album/h-r

Arthur “Junior” Robinson is Iplu – field recordings and electronics are a natural step up from his previous project W3imaraner. Limited hand-dubbed baby blue c28s. Probably Retrac’s best sounding tape yet!
retracrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/leaf-ep

Thursday 6th January 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

20th Anniversary commemorative release: Elliptical Orbits 2

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Completing the 20th Anniversary year of the Spirit of Gravity, we present the 2nd collection of tracks from acts that have appeared at our events since the we started in 2001, Elliptical Orbits 2.

Again featuring Collective members past and present, along with fellow travellers who have graced the various stages we have appeared on over the years. The variety is as wide and the quality as high as the previous edition, illustrating the breadth and inventiveness associated with the Spirit of Gravity throughout its history.

Volume 2 incorporates 26 tracks and over 3½ hours of music, including an extract from minimal impact’s first ever appearance, more new material from Chris Cook, the first new release from the 55th Flotilla for 6 years, and a track from special guest star Professor Stephen Mallinder.

We look forward to 20 more years of producing entertaining and challenging music in venues across Brighton.

Available to stream and download now at spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/elliptical-orbits-2

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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th December 2021 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

The first half features the SoG Xmas album, about to be re-released on our BandCamp label. The second half is an hour from the Brighton based label Chocolate Monk. The rest is made up from sounds recorded by artists in the orbit of The Spirit of Gravity.

Rashamon – Festivus / McCloud – Winter Wonderland / Malevich – Do they know it’s Christmas / Bad lieutenant – Santas a C*** / Hot Roddy – December will be magic again / OneManCrimeWave vs ooort paradox – Jingle Hell / Faoi – Turkeys Strike Back / minimal impact – Jinglejinglejingle / Noteherder & McCloud – Santa Cookie Jar / The Jazz Biscuits – Corridor of Uncertainty / Cockta twins – Mumije / Robin Steward – The Space Section / Spheress – Gut Punch / Cockta twins – Ne Zovi To Ljubavlju
Chocolate Monk ear wonk: Kambrik Zone- Able to move freely through the glass / Forrest Friends – Forrest Friends – Track 5/Track 9 / Translucent Envelope – VI/XI / Hobo Sonn – Improvised music for Japanese drum machine part 2 / Glands of External Excretion – Social crabs / Constance/Nyoukis – A crooked Delirium / Dora Doll – Ganting / Stone Cornelius – Rough Music / Tania Caroline Chen – Electronic / Raymond Cummings – The month was spent wrestling towards an opening sentence

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-november-2021-28th-november-2021/
This month featured a guest mix from Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Dan Powell’s set from the Spirit of Gravity night in October, plus lots of good stuff from Spirit of Gravity land.

20th Anniversary re-release: Vol 5 – Not Just for Christmas

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For the last Spirit of Gravity re-release of 2021, what could be more festive than 8 covers of classic Christmas tunes by members of the collective and friends? “Not Just for Christmas” was released on Christmas Eve, featuring tracks from Rashamon, Hot Roddy, Sh*tmat, minimal impact and others.

Available to stream and download now at spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/not-just-for-christmas

New release on the Spirit of Gravity netlabel: Works from Home 2: Rhizomes by Andrew Greaves

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The next release on the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label is “Works from Home 2: Rhizomes” by Andrew Greaves.

“Rhizomes; horizontal plant shoots, emerging elsewhere as new lateral stems.”

This engaging set of pieces, constructed during the pandemic, feature samples from recordings of Andrew’s father Frank, a classic lead tenor. These have been edited and collaged, and are accompanied by Andrew’s signature keyboard tones. This process triggered memories which informed the directions taken by the work.

“Rhizomes” is available to stream and download now at spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/works-from-home-2-rhizomes

Thursday 2nd December at the Rossi Bar: Xylitol / Andrew Greaves / Dolly Rae Star

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Xylitol: gutter kosmische
Andrew Greaves: album launch show – found recordings, Casio improvisations, layers analogue sequencer patterns.
Dolly Rae Star: Sound, Poetry & Magic
Ingrid Plum is unfortunately unable to appear

Xylitol: gutter Kosmische from East Sussex
www.facebook.com/xylitolmusic
xylitol.bandcamp.com

Andrew Greaves is a Brighton based musician and artist, who combines intense combo organ improvisations within minimalist and sound art contexts. A member of the Spirit of Gravity collective, Andrew has performed live film soundtracks with Broken Star and collaborated with the massed fuzz organs of Himmel and the Indian master musician Deobrat Mishra.
Andrew has performed text based scores as member of the New Interpretations Orchestra and contributed to large ensemble performances of Terry Riley’s In C and works by John Cage. His previous Spirit of Gravity releases included 2 “Octabeast” albums; featuring modal organ improvisations within minimalist compositional forms. His “Entartete” and “Halftone” releases, combined Indian and Ethiopian scales with sound collages built from a collection of found, home recorded, cassette recordings.
During lockdown, Andrew has focussed on studio composition and sound art for film, as well as 2 new releases for the Spirit of Gravity label. The first of these albums “Works From Home”, includes passages of analogue sequencer work and simple improvised melodies; recalling both Suzanne Ciani and Roedelius.
With this performance (his first in almost 2 years), Andrew launches his latest release “Works from Home 2: Rhizomes”. Here, each piece utilises  archive cassette recordings of his father (Frank). An operatic tenor singer; he was recorded mostly in unaccompanied rehearsal. Starting from these primitive artifacts, Andrew has built entirely new pieces, utilising the existing tonal and harmonic content as a basis new contexts.
Andrew plays a Casiotone MT400V mini keyboard, Electribe ER1 & EA1 groove boxes, Korg Monologue synthesiser and a Boss RC-202 Loop Station.

Dolly Rae Starcore plays in sound, poetry, and magic. Movement, play and transcendence.
Let’s dance!
Dolly plays percussion and electronics in God’s Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics and the Beam Eye Babies and holds gong bath sound adventures. Over 2020/21 they held these in local parks, embracing the beauty of ambient sounds (and positioning away from angle grinders).
Their book Play Stance, came out on Polyversity Press this year.
A poem of theirs was once described as “a bold anthem” in The New Statesman (wtf). Their book / sound piece Quest)ion) is out soon on Veer after five years of live ritual exploration and international collaboration.
They also perform as drag king act Will Helm Rightly, who recently graced the Cockpit stage at Journey to Nutopia’s night on Wilhelm Reich.

Thursday 2nd December 2021 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 28th November – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 28th November 2021 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/

This month we have a guest mix from Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Dan Powell‘s set from Spirit of Gravity night in October, plus lots of good stuff from Spirit of Gravity land.

Stephen Mallinder Mix for Gravity Waves: Abul Mogard – ‘Tumbling Restlessness Heaps’ / Demdike Stare – ‘Ishmail’s Intent’ / Rod Modell – ‘Outro’ / GH – ‘Albedo’ / Wrangler – ‘Peace & Love’ (Holy Mix) / Pye Corner Audio & The Advisory Circle – ‘November Sequence’ / Mika Vainio – ‘Sub Atlantic’
Dan Powell – Live at Spirit of Gravity October 2021
Stephen Mallinder – Black Frank Spectre

Nad Spiro – Spiaire; Misha Begley – Walking home at night; Strands (Ronan) – Loebawn artist; Audio Union – unknown title; Mi Cosa de Resistance – The things we have forgotten; Frost – Until it makes sense; Nad Spiro – Tunnel records; Deepkiss 720 – unknown title; Frost – Slippery Bricks; Noteherder & McCloud – The corner by the cemetery; Mi Cosa de Resistance – A song to sleep and dream

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-october-2021-sunday-24th-october-2021/
This months’ show included tracks from the Bang the Bore compilation ‘Here’, and more from the Radiant Heretics label.