Rosebud
Heavily improvised situationist electronics

Beats. Wails. Howls. Deconstruction and S.W.E.A.T. Born in Worcester (officially dubbed the UK’s “dullest city where nothing ever happens”), Rosebud have shared a stage with the likes of Blanck Mass, Qujaku (Japan), Mothwasp, Poisonous Birds and many more. Drawing on a wellhead of Drone, European Industrial, Jeff Mills and the filthier end of Krautrock, Rosebud feed on the visual chaos of The Fluxus and Dada Art movements.

Bandcamp: https://rosebudnoise.bandcamp.com/releases

Live videos: https://www.facebook.com/586876092/videos/10154990185411093

https://www.facebook.com/586876092/videos/10154990266886093

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rosebudnoise

Raeppen
Sami influenced Shamanic Drones

Sami influenced Shamanic drones using voice and percussion. This mixed with modern music technology to create hypnotic soundscapes… Ræppen, is the work of a Nomadic travelling Shaman who travels the planet playing ritualistic drones. Not much is known of the Shaman but when the ritual is performed the Shaman will use hypnotic rhythms to develop a trance like state to be at one with the spirit world.

Bandcamp: https://raeppen.bandcamp.com/

Live videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHivJciXNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80rF2_XyWas

connect_icut
Abstract electronica from Vancouver

connect_icut is also involved with free-folk ensemble The Bastion Mews, collaborative electronica project Not Me and free-form laptop quartet hmbkr. He runs the label CSAF Records. He was last in Brighton for Brighton Digital Festival back in 2014.

https://aagoo.bandcamp.com/album/connect-icut-no-darkness

https://csaf-records.bandcamp.com/album/they-showed-me-the-secret-beaches

Thursday 5th September 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Jonathan Higgins
Turntablism on hacked CD players

Jonathan Higgins – Glitch Turntablism

London based performer and composer working with methods for using noise as a generative force. Performing using hacked CD players designed to uncover noise hidden within digital audio.

https://jphiggins.co.uk/glitch-turntablism

Luxul
Viola based noise/drone/black metal

Emilie Newman makes improvised noise/drone/black metal/experimental sounds under the name luxul using an electric viola and effects/loop pedals.  The whole thing is created from scratch on the night so there are no pre-recorded sounds. 

Here’s video clip of a previous performance: https://www.facebook.com/luxulnoise/videos/1895085310600253/

Andrew Greaves
Minimalist systems based organ & electronics

Andrew Greaves lives in Brighton and is a member of Broken Star, who perform live soundtracks to screenings of early silent cinema. Andrew has also worked with Ron Caines (East of Eden), The TR Agency, Deobrat Mishra and Some Some Unicorn. He is a member of the Brighton based, Spirit of Gravity and Safehouse collectives.

His latest album on The Spirit of Gravity label is:
https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/octabeast-ethiopian-dervish

Thursday 1st August 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Simon James
Buchla 200e, Lorre Mill Double Knot, Apollo 11

The Simonsound’s Simon James will be performing using the Buchla 200e and Lorre Mill Double Knot. Celebrating the Apollo 11 50th anniversary. 

Brighton based, he played at the first Fort Process. Under the name The Simonsound, he took inspiration from the cold war, space race, science fiction and library music, and the album ‘Reverse Engineering’ was selected by Giles Peterson as one of his BBC Radio 1 Records Of The Year.  A darker sound in Black Channels (a collaboration with singer Becky Randall) found a home on cult soundtrack label Death Waltz Records. The soundtrack to the radio drama Akiha Den Den, described by Electronic Sound Magazine as ’21st Century Radiophonica at its very best’ and ‘a seamless adventure in spot on sound design’, has recently been released by Castles in Space Records.

https://thesimonsound.bandcamp.com/

Rapt
Neo-classical drone with a techno influence.

Jacob Ware’s electronic music operating on the liminal areas between drone, neo-classical music and techno. Inspired by late night thought loops and long distance collaboration.

https://rapt.bandcamp.com/

Kina:Suttsur
Japanese experimentalism from minimal to maximal

Kina:Suttsu (from joumon-JAPAN) Ambient, noise, experimental music using guitar, sax, voice etc…. The sense of the world takes what it listens to another dimension. Kina:suttsu is the word of Ainu tribes in Japan and means dragon god.

Thursday 4th July 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

Mai Mai Mai
Italian Gnod related scorched synthesis AV set

As a child, Toni Cutrone aka Mai Mai Mai followed his parents around Europe and the Near East, ending up in the south of Italy, assimilating different cultures, atmospheres and sonorities of the places he was involuntarily taken to. These sensations and sounds were intense enough to leave indelible traces in his music, but Roman noise omnivore Cutrone own decade-plus experience in the Italian underground has doubtless played a role as well .

Each and everyone of Mai Mai Mai poisonous, punishing electronic miasmas are named after characters of the Greek alphabet, beginning with Theta (Boring Machines, 2013) and followed by Δέλτα (Delta) (Yerevan Tapes, 2014) and Φ (Phi) (Not Not Fun Records / Boring Machines, 2017), final installment of his Mediterranean trilogy, which pushes the project deeper into a vivid interzone of digital synthesis and scorched ritual.

Mai Mai Mai latest project, “Nel Sud” is also in a way inspired by the Mediterranean. “Nel Sud” is a journey in the past of the Italian south, done through original footage taken from Italian ethno-documentaries made during the 60s and 70s with original soundtrack by Mai Mai Mai mixed with sounds from the original movies.

Films by directors such as Luigi Di Gianni, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Vittorio De Seta and Cecilia Mangini, edited and manipulated in real time by the video artist Simne Donadni, together with Mai Mai Mai hypnotic music, make you wander in the “Mezzogiorno d’Italia”, exploring the intertwining of pagan rituals and Catholicism in southern Italy, the labor and the dignity of Life and Death, the fragility of man subdued by Nature, by “Divine” and “Magic”. The original soundtrack for this project is due to be released as an album at the end of April 2019 by La tempesta International.

Recently, Mai Mai Mai was also part of last Gnod record “Chapel perilous” (on Rocket Recordings) as a member of the recording band. In his many European and Uk tours he played with Silver Apples and Tanya Tagaq, toured with Gnod, was invited at Liverpool Psych Fest.

“Cutrone deserves admiration for how much he crams into such a short space of time, preventing the listener from ever locking the record into the straightjackets of genre and influence.” – The Quietus

“Mai Mai Mai trades in energising blasts of biomechanical synth noise which snarl and throb like a demonically possessed star cruiser” – The Wire

“Diggin this f-cked, weirded out, atonal mad shizzle from Rome” – The Bug

“Mai Mai Mai records rich and challenging drone, ambient, and electronic music, which is often as elegant as it is abrasive” – Daily Bandcamp

www.theransomnote.com/music/news/italian-noise-artist-gnod-affiliate-mai-mai-mai-announces-new-lp-nel-sud/

Dolly Dollycore
Spoken words and electronics

Dolly Dollycore is sometimes Dolly Turing and works in poetry, sound, play, ritual, magic. They are interested in process, and in what going through experiences of sound, words, smell, movement and play may invoke in us, in our consciousness, and in the world. She is currently working on two projects, one (Quest)ion)) exploring home, attachment, interruption, ancestral impacts, wide open space and nothingness, the other (Play Stance) play as transmutation, metamorphosis and meaning cookery. Both with a side of queerness, and with plenty of interesting spirits getting involved. Her first pamphlet OH (PARA)COSMIC BEING came out with The Vinter Olympiks in October 2016. They had work in the recent anthology Spells published by Ignota, and have had work published by Datableed, Hesterglock and Litmus. There’ll be gongs, words, electronic soundscapes and “bold anthem(s)” – The New Statesman (wtf).

They also play in various bands including God’s Teeth and The Interstellar Tropics

dollydollycore.bandcamp.com/

Muster
Electronics/guitar

MUSTER is the improvising duo of Dan Powell (Brighton) and James O’Sullivan (South London), formed accidentally on 2nd November, 2016, in the Catford Constitutional Club. Its musical elements are simultaneously intricately interwoven and related far from their point of origin, both site-specific and existing nowhere in particular.

James O’Sullivan is an experimental guitar player, active on the fringes of London’s free improvisation scene over the past decade. He aims to exploit the full sonic potential of the guitar, relating it meaningfully and enduringly to both the immediate physical environment and the domain of recorded improvised music. His interest in improvisation, recording and performance has led him to record and perform across the UK and internationally, both solo and with numerous improvised music groups. More longstanding arrangements include Found Drowned, a trio with Pete Marsh and Paul May, and his collaboration with Thanos Chrysakis on several releases on the Aural Terrains imprint. His debut solo album, feed back couple, was released in 2011. His second solo album, IL Y A, is out now on Linear Obsessional.

Dan Powell was born in Essex and moved to London to study photography at The Polytechnic of Central London. After college he ran a gallery on the South Bank, showed a few installations and was involved in the OMSK collective putting on arts events. He moved to Brighton in 1999 and is a sound artist who uses handmade and proprietary electronics, tuned percussion and a variety of acoustic instruments and household objects to make his work. A lot of the time he prefers to work with other people in various combinations, especially with Gus Garside and Chris Parfitt in The Static Memories and Nil respectively. Solo projects include a hand built electronic instrument and, and a piece marking 75 years of St Dunstans hospital.

soundcloud.com/dan-powell/muster-live-at-club-integral

vimeo.com/200731403

Thursday 6th June 2019 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA