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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 24th May 2020 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

ResonanceExtra FM continues regardless, so we are able to bring you another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective.
This show contains some tracks from the latest Spirit of Gravity label release, any money made from downloads of this will be donated to the fund-raising scheme for the venues that have been our home for the last 10 years. The first half contains a lengthy piece by Melbourne based artist Gillian Lever who played for us several times as The Vainglories when she lived in Brighton. Also included are some interesting things from the archives:

Pt I
Gillian Lever – Brain Box binaural version / Zaum – Let’s Call It Myth / Rotten Bliss – One Day This Will All Be A Ray Of Noise / Kutchi – Pugsly / Brown Sierra – Mr Chiodini / T-Toe – မင်္ဂလာပါ – 02 ကမ်းခြေ (the beach)) / Vera Bremerton – Apostasy
Part II
Tapeworms Orchestra – 3 pieces live at Splitting The Atom / Niki Matita – Babosa / Annie Kerr & Andrew Greaves – Thanka Alap / Inwards – 19TEST / BBBlood – Combined / Dolly Turing, Garth Erasmus – Distance Traces / Ocean in a bottle – Space Dust

The April 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-april-2020-sunday-26th-april-2020/

This month we have a special guest curation from the Othermen crew, featuring music from the sewage works, sand bag and brain cell
“And just because I’m Smyling
Doesn’t mean that it’s happy.
And just because I’m laughing
Doesn’t mean that it’s funny.

Do you know how Real that is!”

7th May netlabel release: Behind the Shutters

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The Spirit of Gravity is finding ways to keep the unusual sounds flowing under lockdown. Exclusive tracks by the artists who had kindly agreed to appear at our May show – and then just as kindly agreed not to appear – are now available as a netlabel release: ‘Behind the shutters’.

Vera Bremerton is a classically trained vocalist who specialises in extended technique. ‘Blends classical harmonies with industrial, avantgarde, techno beats and aggressive sounds.’
https://verabremerton.bandcamp.com/

Yorkshire Modular Society is Dominick Schofield, and ‘is an ethos of creation by way of listening. It is truly formless, without beginning or end, like a great ashen tree beneath the Earth’s crust, whose roots penetrate the skies.’
https://yorkshiremodularsociety.bandcamp.com/

midierror is Spirit of Gravity collective member Chris. ‘Synth Explorer, Renoiser, Sample Maker, MIDI Idiot, Community Music maker, Film Fan, Sky Watcher, Photo Chap, Own Worst Enemy.’
https://soundcloud.com/midi-error

Stream and download the album here on a pay-as-you-will basis:
https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-shutters

Any monies made will go to the crowdfunder for the Rossi and the Green Door Store, our present and our former home venue. Please give if you can.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-the-greendoor-store-and-rossi-bar

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

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 26th April 2020 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

This month we have a special guest curation from the Othermen crew, featuring music from the sewage works, sand bag and brain cell

“And just because I’m Smyling
Doesn’t mean that it’s happy.
And just because I’m laughing
Doesn’t mean that it’s funny.

Do you know how Real that is!”

The March 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-march-2020-sunday-22nd-march-2020/

Another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, including music from the Chocolate Monk label: Powell:
The Singing Island – The door is in the valley / Tindegger – deed deid horst / Blood Stereo – Two paths to outer edge (excerpt) / Sexton Ming’s Porridge Van – Twelve / The Singing Island – Stone Telling Stone / Tindegger – Mechanical Powell:
Map71 – CDM (Nmesme remix) / si – cut.db – Post Emblem / Donna Summer – The Man Who Was Thursday / Dynamo Bruit – Monody Tracts / GRST – Penance State / Mully – Get A Phone That Works You Useless Hippy And Maybe We Could Use The Correct Track Titles / Shitmat – You Be Virgil And I’ll Be Ted Dibiase / Noony Banoony – froth and frizz / Maya Verlaak – All English Music is Greensleeves (II) / Official Licensed Product – Dan’s Cat and a Humming PC

Save the Rossi Bar

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Spirit of Gravity live gigs have unfortunately been cancelled for the foreseeable future, due to the closing of the Rossi Bar in line with government COVID-19 guidance. However, we are releasing new material via the Spirit of Gravity netlabel each month in lieu of live events, and the radio show will continue on the 4th Sunday of each month.

In the meantime, as The Rossi Bar, our current venue, is on the #SaveOurVenues Red list, if you’re lucky enough to be in regular work at the moment, please think about contributing to their crowdfunder page: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-the-rossi-bar

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 22nd March – NOW 6.00 to 8.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 22nd March 2020 from 6.00 to 8.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

Another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, including music from the Chocolate Monk label:

The Singing Island – The door is in the valley / Tindegger – deed deid horst / Blood Stereo – Two paths to outer edge (excerpt) / Sexton Ming’s Porridge van – Twelve / The Singing Island – Stone Telling Stone / Tindegger – Mechanical

Map71 – CDM (Nmesme remix) / si – cut.db – Post Emblem / Donna Summer – The Man Who Was Thursday / Dynamo Bruit – Monody Tracts / GRST – Penance State / Mully – Get A Phone That Works You Useless Hippy And Maybe We Could Use The Correct Track Titles / Shitmat – You Be Virgil And I’ll Be Ted Dibiase / Noony Banoony – froth and frizz / Maya Verlaak – All English Music is Greensleeves (II) / Official Licensed Product – Dan’s Cat and a Humming PC

The January 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-january-2020-sunday-the-26th-of-january-2020/

Another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, including a remix of the most popular downloads from the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label by Dan Powell:
Dan Powell – Sogman’s Hitmix / Othermen – For All Time (Res Extra Version) / Emma Papper – Reflctions02 / Dan Powell – emerging from the valley into a rainshower / Olivia Louvel – Mes Taches de Rousseur / Nil by Nose & Noventa Nada – SANS FAUTE CETTE FOIS / Barker – Models of wellbeing / Fane – The Temple of Unknowing

The February edition is also now available:
www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/gravity-waves-and-the-spirit-world-february-2020-sunday-23rd-february-2020/

The first hour is from the new release on The Spirit of Gravity Label “It just evaporated, so I’m trying to re-conjure it” by McCloud:
McCloud – The long tail (full length version) / Unwanted Missionaries Unwinding Along Green Lanes
The second hour: Inwards – Skateboarding / Jae Josephine – 2020 tbc / Kina: Suttsu – Muza / Nil by Nose – Always there

Thursday 5th March at the Rossi Bar: Bela Emerson & Hervé Perez duo / Meljoann / Ascsoms

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Bela Emerson & Hervé Perez duo
Cello, alto saxophone, laptop, electronics.

Bela and Hervé met at Buddhafield Festival in the summer of 2019. After a very brief musical encounter in the middle of a field amidst sun and wind, the duo realised that they had to play again, and involve their passion for improvisation with acoustic instruments and electronics.
Both experienced improvisers have performed for many years across the UK and Europe. As a duo, they are able to merge fluidly gestural, textural and melodic phrases, with great ease and near telepathic communication
https://soundcloud.com/nexttimeproduction/20190721buddfieldberv

Bela Emerson is an innovative cellist who uses electronic processing to compose in the moment. She has toured worldwide and performed collaborative residencies at Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, as well as being commissioned by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction as a solo performer, playing four John Peel sessions for BBC Radio 1, and releasing four solo albums to date.
Her artist CV includes a wide range of collaborations: with artists such as acrobats Mimbre, filmmaker Tereza Buskova, musicians Sarah Angliss and Stephen Hiscock, and comedians Tamsin Greig and Rory Bremner (commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and the BFI).
Bela also works extensively as a community music facilitator with Open Strings Music and in healthcare settings with Wishing Well, using music as a tool for connection, creativity, and wellbeing, as well as training people at Goldsmiths in using relational music-making for dementia.
www.belaemerson.com
www.openstrings.co.uk
www.wishingwellmusic.org.uk

Hervé Perez: Artist, composer and improvising musician from France who now lives in England. He plays saxophones, shakuhachi and laptop in various groups and produces music inspired by jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music, experimental, sound art and sound therapy.
He has released three albums with Inclusion Principle (Discus label), many recordings in collaboration with artists from around the world, and also solo work on various netlabels. His latest album, Imploding Stars (Focused Silence, 2019) features solo saxophone and live processing.
Hervé has worked as sound recordist and sound designer on a number of short films, and is currently carrying out residencies doing location recordings and concerts with Maja Bugge’s Northern (Full of Noises, Manchester Jazz Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival).
Live performances incl. Huddersfield Week of Speakers, Mantis festival Manchester, insubordinations microfestival in Switzerland, Sheffield festival of the Mind, mopomoso at the Vortex London, megapolis and dumbo arts festivals New York, Jazz à Luz, Manchester Marsden and Lancaster Jazz festival, Full of Noises, etc.
www.spacers.lowtech.org/herve
sndsukinspook.wordpress.com

Meljoann
Dystopian pop, disorientating noises, corporate video testimonials

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)

Ascsoms
Field recordings and miscellaneous electronics

Adam Wimbush’s solo project Ascsoms is an evolving sound world formed from a semi-generative system of analogue and lo-fi equipment, tape players, loopers, field recordings, miscellaneous electronics and a rotating cast of effects pedals. His recent experiments explore layering and signal routing. These morphing environments, often dense and full of texture, feed into further productions – creating an ongoing experiment in sonic reproduction and reprocessing.
He is a keen collaborator, a member of  Thee Electric Spotchworms Tape Orchestra and half of sound effects duo Electronic Sound Pictures Visit https://ascsoms.bandcamp.com and https://soundcloud.com/ascsoms for more info and follow at @ascsoms on instagram and facebook

Thursday 5th March 2020 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Next radio broadcast on ResonanceExtra FM: Sunday 23rd February 8.00 to 10.00pm

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Gravity Waves and the Spirit World

Sunday 23rd February 2020 from 8.00 to 10.00pm on ResonanceExtra FM. extra.resonance.fm/

The first hour is from the new release on The Spirit of Gravity Label “It just evaporated, so I’m trying to re-conjure it” by McCloud:
McCloud – The long tail (full length version)  / Unwanted Missionaries Unwinding Along Green Lanes

The second hour:
Inwards – Skateboarding / Jae Josephine – 2020 tbc / Kina: Suttsu – Muza / Nil by Nose – Always there

The January 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-january-2020-sunday-the-26th-of-january-2020/

Another selection of tracks from the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity Collective, including a remix of the most popular downloads from the Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label by Dan Powell:
Dan Powell – Sogman’s Hitmix / Othermen – For All Time (Res Extra Version) / Emma Papper – Reflctions02 / Dan Powell – emerging from the valley into a rainshower / Olivia Louvel – Mes Taches de Rousseur / Nil by Nose & Noventa Nada – SANS FAUTE CETTE FOIS / Barker – Models of wellbeing / Fane – The Temple of Unknowing