The Spirit of Gravity have got together with Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records (bluetapes.co.uk/) for this special one off show in September, that should set you up nicely for Fort Process (fortprocess.co.uk/)

Benjamin Finger
Norwegian Fever Dream; Gorgeous and Fiery

Norwegian composer Benjamin Finger has released 10 full-length LPs since 2009 that have taken in a wide variety of musics, from delicate ambient to modern classical, free jazz and techno – sometimes even within the space of one piece!

His Amorosa Sensitiva LP for Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records was described by The Ransom Note as “a gleaming reverie, slightly submerged, redolent of Alice Coltrane’s graceful, spiritual ecstasy and the decelerated density and dusky forest-plunge of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project. A fever dream at turns gorgeous and fiery.”

Map71
Art Punk Electro-Poets

Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubaten, The Fall, Suicide and John Zorn are some of the artists that Brighton legends Map 71 have been compared to, but this art-punk combination of performance poet Lisa Jayne and drummer/noisemaker Andy Pyne (Medicine and Duty, Kellar, Shrag) have proved themselves over the past year or two of mind-rewiring gigs and cryptic releases to be a singular force, miles apart from any identifiable trend in their hometown or the world.

“Lisa Jayne is one of the most physically arresting performers of poetry in Brighton, with a stage presence informed by visiting London strip clubs and observing strippers at work: a persona at once both provocative and absent; lingering eye contact and gyrating hips behind a wall of cool Perspex charisma. As can be heard on Map 71’s tape on Blue Tapes, Andy Pyne’s primal approach offers the perfect backing for Jayne’s stark confessions, delivered in a thick Essex accent like apocalyptic proclamations from some piss-stained midnight car park of the mind.” – The Wire

Wild Anima
Field Recordings and looped shards

In her previous Blue Tapes incarnation as Kurosounds, the Paris-based sound designer Alex Alexopoulos weaved subtle field recordings around looped shards of music to create intuitive and atmospheric soundworlds that sucked the listener in. Rechristening herself Wild Anima, Alex has collaborated with a range of musicians to further develop her own brand of “spiritual pop” – a transcendent and uplifting sound that draws on techno, spiritual singers and mbira music.

Plus special guest –
Henry Collins
Short, brutal and on early

Thursday 1st September | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

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The Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label has now re-emerged from a short hiatus, with a new release by I’m Dr Buoyant, “I’m Dr Buoyant plays Ron Caines.”

For this album, I’m Dr Buoyant has taken the solo saxophone recordings of Ron Caines, and edited and manipulated them to create new forms, making more or less oblique references to the original material. No other sound source was used for these tracks.

The result is a thirteen track album of astounding variety; lyrical pieces jostle with jagged and stark soundscapes that is never anything but highly compelling and listenable.

This new release is available for donations via the following link:

https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/im-dr-buoyant-plays-ron-caines

Further releases are in the pipeline from Music of Benares and Bramblings.

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Spacy dance, electronics, dirty grooves, lush drones and ambient noise

Ahtuf Kontrol
Out of space dance and music with retro keys and moods

MSVFCK
Dirty electronic grooves, lush drones and screaming fuzz

Memorial Bench
Synth based abstract ambient noise

Thursday 4th August | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

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The Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label has now re-emerged from a short hiatus, with a new release by I’m Dr Buoyant, “I’m Dr Buoyant plays Ron Caines.”

For this album, I’m Dr Buoyant has taken the solo saxophone recordings of Ron Caines, and edited and manipulated them to create new forms, making more or less oblique references to the original material. No other sound source was used for these tracks.

The result is a thirteen track album of astounding variety; lyrical pieces jostle with jagged and stark soundscapes that is never anything but highly compelling and listenable.

This new release is available for donations via the following link:

https://spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/im-dr-buoyant-plays-ron-caines

Further releases are in the pipeline from Music of Benares and Bramblings.

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Extraterrestrial electronics, lasers and drones; beamed directly to Brighton

Aqua Dentata
Sublime electronic drones

Shirty
Laser controlled drum kits

Nick Langley and Ian Murphy
Prepared piano

Jo Knell & Alex Peckham
2 short films

Thursday 7th July | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

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Sexton Ming & Jason Williams
Experimenting duo

Sexton Ming (born 1961) Kentish man. artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets and Stuckism art movement.

That Sexton Ming is only really possible to explain in terms of other artists does not mean he lacks originality. Far from it. The fact that any conversation about him to a non-initiate has to start with a list of more familiar names is simply a recognition that his work is so far out there that you need something to grasp hold of as it drags you in. The simple explanation goes something along the lines that he sounds like Captain Beefheart, writes poetry like Ivor Cutler, draws like David Shrigley and paints like, well, a mixture of all three. You can also throw Vivian Stanshall and Ian Dury into the mix, though these crude comparisons hardly do justice to Ming’s individuality.

Ming would be the first to admit that he is a jack of all trades and, technically at least, master of none, having received no training in any of the disciplines that he pursues. There is not a focus group, A&R man or art dealer on the planet who would advise Gravesend-born Ming to carry on ploughing his furrow, which is exactly what makes him such a breath of fresh air. His poems often lack grace and meter, his music is ham-fisted and his paintings are very much those of a man who lacked even the qualifications to get on a foundation course. Yet they still enthral.

Ming’s recorded output features badly tuned cheap guitars and ditties about everything from dead donkeys that help old ladies with their shopping to the secret life of scarecrows. Like his poems, his songs mix innocent, childish fables with stream of consciousness rants and outrageous sexualisation of popular cartoon characters, often with Ming giggling at his own jokes as he sings. Ralph Steadman. The cartoonist was more than used to bizarre excess when working with Hunter S Thompson, but he once drew the line at Ming reading poems about Virginia Woolf with his underpants at half mast commenting ‘You’re not a poet, you’re a failed intellectual’

Jason Williams (born 1970) Sussex man. Multi-form incalitrant Entertainer.

No formal training has just made it easier for me to make uncompromising music and art with a non-careerist attitude for over thirty years now. Being central to the lo-fi junk noise explosion of the early nineties. My superannuated post-music project Deepkiss720 was summed up in IDWAL FISHER magazine thus – “Jase’s contribution to the UK noise scene may be small when looked at in terms of released output (tapes, CD-Rs and one ahead of its time LP on Harbinger Sound now home to the Sleaford Mods) but that is no reflection on his influence and input. Those few releases would suggest the mind of a man for whom side long tranches of noise aren’t the excuse for periods of reflection but a chance to wreak havoc with your ears. With his long running solo project Deepkiss720 Jase has managed to create a monster that makes noise that is genuinely unlistenable and I mean that in the most respectful of ways. Its not everybody who can put something into the noise trough that is so totally off centre as to be totally off whatever scale it is you want to measure it by.” my cut up, in the old sense – no samplers or computers involved ‘music’ became more like ‘collage’ and I was further drawn to that genre when I collaborated on some collages and one oil painting with the contemporary German artist and new steam musician Albert Oehlen for the “I will always champion bad painting” exhibition. Albert had previously given me two important ideas to wrestle with during this period of contact. “Too pornographic” regarding the modified Polaroids of my testicular cancer which sadly helped get an Eastbourne gallery closed down, and “I hope they are proud?” while perusing some of Dusseldorf’s more vulgar graffiti. However one of the results also ended up in the “I Will Always Champion a good painting” show at the Whitechapel Gallery. An ongoing fascination with artists ‘ego’ and links to self-esteem, pride etc and then the flipside emerged in my work with the desire to sometimes make art / music as meaningless and perhaps as beguiling / wrong / unartistic in its choices of colour, shape, structure etc as possible or just by thinking of it more as mere decoration / background ? even the choice of the deepkiss720 moniker being as cringeworthy all round as possible. Later I co wrote the article ‘Dipsomanic theory and cancer chew’ with Dylan Nyoukis for Bananafish magazine the influential San Francisco fringe culture magazine. And was taken on as ‘Silver-head’ by godfather of graffiti Jeff Keen whose rapid-fire animations, multiple screen projections and raucous performances redefined multi-media art in Britain. A detour into the more occult side of the arts lead me into years of research, film making and xerox mail art exchange with the Welsh “cult” OKOK Society, now Ordo Innominate. Chance meetings lead to live work with Foxtrot Echo of COUM Transmissions and the Coum Flakes exhibition at the Start Gallery, Brighton. And helping out on the Muddy Clearing event with the Binnie Sisters. After recently befriending Jonathan Kenneth William Pettitt and helping curate a show for him at the Hastings Carbon Arts Gallery as part of his rehabilitation from a mental health section and running Anti-art and Broken music workshops for Coastal Currents festival at the the Old Chemists, St Leonards and Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire and more recently a mechanical Drink and Draw session I have realized I am a catalyst in any workshop situation than facilitator as I can never remain “neutral” and find nothing about art ever really therapeutic anyway, It’s merely managing a struggle. Amusingly I was recently described by fellow local artist Jeffrey Louis-reed as a “one-man avant garde steamroller” but I have slowed right down and now make less, having just finished a performance based displacement experiment with Charlotte Hailey Watts called Hysteresis. Current creativity is sparse as i am technically homeless while nursing my sister back to health after cancer op. but includes a

Dolly Dollycore
New ritual project5

Dolly Dollycore is an all together flowing chaos musician, sporadic transformer, reality interloper, excellent home cook, writer, all night dancing vigilante, the flight of ducks.
Dolly is mad-cap in love with the universe. Dolly might be a seething tangle of leaves and caterpillars. Dolly is against odds and either/ors. Dolly suspects that the best way to make change is inciting play and transformations in people.
Current/upcoming projects include Four Manatees with Verity Spiders, 3 EYE DISKO apocalypse blowouts with Daniel Mackenzie and friends, a monthly BANG show on Totally Radio.com, Thee Hairee Kuntz and so on.
soundcloud.com/dolly-dollycore/surrender

Some Some Unicorn
Big Band from The North

Some Some Unicorn is a large collective of like minded musical magpies under the laid back eye of composer and improviser Shaun Blezard. The band began during Shaun’s time as a New Voice composer with the British Music Collective and pulls in players from across genres that focus on improvisation and experimentation in their work.
The band has featured members of Hugs Bison, Breathing Space, Pere Ubu, Beats and Pieces Big Band, Roddart, Ripsaw Catfish, Wire Assembly, Inclusion Principle, World of Fox and many more and is never the same twice.
The sound of Some Some Unicorn is improvised around loose ideas from Shaun to create a big band free drone soundscape. The music flows around and between players, the audience and the room to become a journey in that particular time and space – though there are markers in free jazz, ambient electronics, free improv and the electric jazz experiments of the early 70’s all players bring their own influences to add to the melting pot.
Though players and poets come from a variety of backgrounds the heart of Some Some Unicorn is everyone’s belief in community.
somesomeunicorn.co.uk/

Thursday 2nd June | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5
@ The Green Door Store
Undercroft, Brighton Train Station, BN1 4FQ Brighton

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