Shark Calmer: A dense, polyrhythmic and occasionally absurd soundscape of blips, beeps and thwacks. Between Mandishi and a Poundshop Autechre
Asher Fynn: Darkly abstract songs about freedom, representation, and even drastic hook up stories
SARRAM: A crushing yet graceful meeting of ambient, drone, doom, jazz, electronica and minimal post-rock

Shark Calmer: Tom Clarke and Peter Marsh first met as part of a trio cranking out jazz standards in a South London pub. Though they went on to play with the likes of Alan Wilkinson, Karl Blake, Simon King and others, the pair had also begun to meet for regular sessions of lo-fi improvised electronica, armed with whatever they could dredge up. Adding occasional real drums and lap steel guitar, they’ve evolved a dense, polyrhythmic and occasionally absurd soundscape of blips, bleeps and thwacks somewhere between Mwandishi-era Herbie Hancock and a Poundshop Autechre.
sharkcalmer.bandcamp.com/

S A R R A M is the instrumental avant-garde solo project of the Sardinian based Valerio Marras, active since 2017. Expect a performance poised between heavy ambient, dronejazz, electrodoom, spoken word, tape loop and postrock.
Streaming: sarram.bandcamp.com/
“There is a sense of vacuum-esque existence parallel to ours that really gives the album its supernatural emphasis, as even though you are there in flesh to undergo it, your soul flies far away in untold spheres.” Everything Is Noise
“A sonic adventure filled with highs and lows that will challenge your very subconscious.” The Sleeping Shaman
“This album is not just engaging, but moving. (…) it is intense, emotionally vulnerable, and beautiful, such that it pulls the listener back, to pay attention” Angry Metal Guy

Live visuals by Meljoann

Hosted by Geoff Cheesemaster

The Rossi Bar is a small grade II building, and they are restricted with how they can improve access for anyone with mobility issues. The live music venue is located in the basement, which can only be accessed by a short spiral staircase. More accessibility information and images of the venue are in this document:
spiritofgravity.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/The-Spirit-of-Gravity-at-The-Rossi-Bar-for-audience-members.pdf

“The Spirit of Gravity: making experimental music a threat again – since 2001”

Thursday 7th May 2026 | 8pm – 10.30pm | £5 (cash only)
Downstairs @ The Rossi Bar
8 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3WA

The latest Spirit of Gravity BandCamp label release is Andrew Greaves’ new album Headspace
A collection of nine electronic pieces created out of a process improvisation.

The album  is aptly named. Its sparse, yet warm soundscapes offer plenty of room to wander and to think.

Greaves has adopted a simple set-up here, and improvised around equally simple melodic fragments. Less is always more in this particular sonic world – but while the sound canvas sits within certain guard rails, there are no such restrictions on either the dynamic or the emotional range.

Almost folk-like half-tunes interlace with spare and careful interpolations of found sound. Occasionally, over the album’s forty minute journey, playful references occur in one track to another. Forty minutes is, of course, the classic album length – like a Georgian house, a size and shape to which we return. And this lyrical and considered collection is a bit of a classic too.

Stream or download for £9 at spiritofgravity.bandcamp.com/album/headspace

Also available as a boxed dual format USB stick expanded album: £10+postage
This version includes the album in lossless WAV and MP3 formats, 6 specially commissioned films and VJ performances, photos, cover art and more.