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Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 25th September – 8.00 to 10.00pm

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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

Thursday 1st September at the Rossi Bar: Electric Ape / Yes Indeed / Shit Creek

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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

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

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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.

 

Thursday 4th August at the Rossi Bar: Son of the Sun / Secret Nuclear / Rotten Bliss

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The Spirit of Gravity Presents:
S☉N OF THE SUN: Hermetic fable: live show, ritual, dance
Secret Nuclear: Sonic venturing
Rotten Bliss: Cello / noise

Mark Wagner presents S☉N OF THE SUN, a ritual-performance based on Hermeticism and the Great Work of Alchemy. Hypnotic and immersive, featuring warped electronica, mangled beats and live remixes of his latest release out on ZamZamrec / Adaadat.
Mark Wagner is an artist and composer whose work centres on Mysticism. www.markwagner33.com

Secret Nuclear is the artist name of Surrey-based musician and designer Tim Spear. Secret Nuclear aims to explore experimental electronica, from woozy minimalism, treated field recordings and loops which he describes as “paranoid ambient”, through to all-out noise. ““… a disturbing echo of cold war paranoia” – Electronic Sound Magazine.
He has released a series of EPs and also contributed mixes and guest sessions for radio shows such as Kites & Pylons, DARK TRAIN and Urban Mutant. He also produces a quarterly radio show for CAMP, an arts centre based in the Pyrenees.

Rotten Bliss: Disturbing dreams and tender imagery haunt the violent, warm & weird visions of London based cellist, vocalist and instrument inventor Jasmine Pender, whose work voyages through noise, drone, folk, blues, and sound collage: “coarse and beautifully heavy songs” (The Wire Magazine, July 2018)
rottenbliss.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 4th August 2022 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA