Roshi featuring Pars Radio
The Welsh Iranian songbook in electronic form

Roshi featuring Pars Radio is built around the songs of Roshi Nasehi  as well as interpretations of Iranian songs Roshi is a Welsh born singer-composer of Iranian parentage with a strong track record in live performance, collaboration, recording and workshops. The project also features percussionist/electronicist Graham Dowdall (Gagarin, Nico, Pere Ubu). It’s an unorthodox sound world combining Roshi’s intimate singing style with Gagarin’s experimental electronic powers to create a unique genre-crossing, ‘exotic, folktronica landscape.’

Roshi’s songs reflect her origins, influences and experiences in a personal highly individual way accompanied by unusual keyboard arrangements, vocal loops and effects – they are reflective, melodic and quirky – her voice airy and tender but possessed of an inner power. When she interprets Iranian song it is in a personal style bringing a contemporary twist combined with an authentic understanding of context and language.

As Roshi featuring Pars Radio, Roshi and Graham have released several records that have received significant airplay (Radio 3, 6 Music, RTE) and considerable critical acclaim including The Quietus, The Wire, The Independent, New Internationalist, Songlines, Rock n Reel, Q, DJ Magazine, PRS M Magazine and twice record of the month in Mixmag who described her as “one of the most singular voices working at the moment”. A new album is in the pipeline due for release in early 2020.

Ill/Fitting Suits Present Distance/Between
Rilke & Rimbaud: thee founders return

The Spirit of Gravity founding fathers Tony Rimbaud and Nick Rilke make a rare return to performance together with a new piece specially created for the Rossi Bar, Distance/Between.

Combining treated samples and sounds prompted by semi improvised spoken word and performance, Distance/Between creates dialogues and monologues between audience and artist that imagines the richness and randomness of human interactions from a chance collection of people.

Amongst The Pigeons
Dancing pigeons, music, electronica and pigeon facts

Amongst The Pigeons: a surreal, informative and wonderful experience of dancing pigeons, music, electronica and pigeon facts. A place inhabited by soaring loops and the beating of electronic wings. Be sure to expect creative beats, addictive melodies and a whole host of twisted ideas.

soundcloud.com/amongst_the_pigeons

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

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