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
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
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
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.
Emma Papper: ambient electronics & improvised clarinet and EWI 5000
FROST: solo drum activated electronics
Territorial Gobbing: cut-up electronic noise & object improv performance art
Emma Papper is a Brighton musician – part of David Bramwell’s Oddfellows Casino (folky electronica) for 20 years and the Brighton Film Quartet (contemporary cinematic music) for 9 years. Over the last 3 years I have got into composing electronic music using an EWI 5000 (electronic wind synthesizer) / Reason combination and to date have produced 2 solo and 2 collaborative albums (‘Sounds in Space’, ‘Deeper Sounds in Space’, ‘Long Distance Dreams’ and ‘Day Trip to Europa’ My live solo set is me playing mainly improvised clarinet / EWI 5000 over my electronic compositions.
emmapapper.co.uk/music
FROST is a drummer who plays as a soloist with an acoustic kit triggering sounds and loops from a sample pad.
Current project, Perm Octo Clavè Induction Set is a body of 10 songs centred on a binary rhythmic framework, encompassing 10 songs released as five separate records throughout 2021. Each song explores a unique iteration of a rhythmic motif, with acoustic instrumentation in dialogue with sequenced electronics. There are reoccurring themes of minimalism, leftfield techno and post rock, underpinned by the ideology of networked beats.
musicbyfrost.bandcamp.com
Not to be confused with Fröst.
Territorial Gobbing – high speed clutter, vocal garbage and tape abuse shooting for sound-art and settling for much less.
territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com
Thursday 4th November 2021 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA
Gravity Waves and the Spirit World
Sunday 24th October 2021 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM, DAB radio or online at extra.resonance.fm/
This show is likely to include tracks from the Bang the Bore compilation ‘Here’, and more from the Radiant Heretics label.
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-2021-sunday-26th-september-2021/
This month’s show consisted of a special show featuring artists from the mysterious new Radiant Heretics label.
After our first successful return to the Rossi bar in September, we are on track to return in October.
Featuring: DAN POWELL / R. DYER / THIS SOUND BUREAUCRACY
Dan Powell: Small percussion and custom digital processing
R. Dyer: Odd songs built from memories and stray kit
This Sound Bureaucracy: The True and Authentick History of The Spirit of Gravity
Dan Powell is a sound artist who uses field recordings, handmade and proprietary electronics and tuned percussion. The main focus of his work is exploring places which have a particular personal. He has been active in electro-acoustic improvisation in London and Brighton, especially with Gus Garside in The Static Memories, and Chris Parfitt in Nil, and currently performs as part of Muster with James O’Sullivan.
cronica.bandcamp.com/album/four-walks-at-old-chapel
slightlyoffkilter.bandcamp.com/album/am
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/
This Sound Bureaucracy: Mr Nick Rilke presents the True and Authentick History of The Spirit of Gravity with Accompaniment by Mr Tony Rimbaud. Thee founders return.
This Sound Bureaucracy are remarkably undocumented.
Thursday 7th October 2021 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA