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Why isn’t it like it was 10 years ago? (UPDATED FOR TIM)

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 Due to an incredible laxness brought on by unseasonable lethargy caused by unseasonable cold and rain, followed by unseasonable lethargy due to seasonal heat I’m really late getting this posted up, July should follow soon…

Henry finished the show with an uncharacteristic set, in Shitmat terms of  superfast breaks and comedy gabba, but if you’d been paying attention to his blog you would have seen the mighty Mash Hits project taking shape (http://www.shitmat.co.uk/category/mashhits/) and you would have known that The Spirity of Gravity was hosting the only live performance of it…

We’ve been trying to link up with Tim Didymus for well over two years and so we were really happy to host this performance of the automated Glass Armonica and synth setup, it was truly something special.

And starting the evening off with a set of location based puns worthy of Flann O’Brien (I’m reading “The Third Policeman” to my kids at t bedtime) ZPG had an excellent scattergun of beats and noises reaching through space and time in a most enjoyable manner.

Henry also introduced the idea of WWWebwalking, which he was pretty good at, and we had a go here:

video july

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I’ve been a bit busy so haven’t finished off everything for July yet, but we do have some video of teh amazing sets from Dan Powell and Gus Garside; plus Oli Mayne, Thanos Chrysakis and James O’ Sullivan.

Unfortunately the advertised Jilke and Tulin Fee couldn’t make it (part of a recurring dream).

So Anyway Oli and his crew:

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan

Gus Garside and Dan Powell

Gus Garside and Dan Powell 2

Shadowplay hometime

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Travelling backwards through time we rounded off the evening with a powerful set from Power Up, violin drones and patters, casio organ fusillades and beats raging from stomach settling to ear tugging.

Heres an unnamed treat from the quieter end of the spectrum.

The Vainglories provided a scary turn, spooky piano’s and eldritch scratches set against _minimalVectors shadowplay of birds trees and moon.

This piece is called “paper birds”.

Starting the evening in a very low key was Casio Headbutt with echoes, casio and field recordings.

This segment of the performance is called “Junglistic Casiosweep”.

And then some video of The Vainglories and Power Up from the myspace page.

The Vainglories

Power Up Live at SoG

God, I love the BBC

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I just found out Rob Da Bank played one of my ElMaes tracks last night, I say mine, I think it was one of steves remixes, it was hard to tell through my poxy little speakers here at work, but great stuff.
rob da bank
Unfortunatly they spelt the name wrong Geburah (5) is by Elmaes rather than Elmeas.
Which is the point of this post, if anyone tries to google Elmeas, not much comes up.
the track is from the WMRecordings CD thats upcoming rather than the 7.

Also Mixing It are playing Dans track from the Shitmat remix CD tonight
mixing it
The 7 and the CD are available via the Spirit of Gravity Website.

The August gig will be posted next week.

Cheers

The February show

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Ah, the usual combination of chaos, no-shows and great music.
Although with flowers, thanks to Jim Black.

Playing his first (and as it transpired only[scroll down to Feb 23rd]) set with his lovely new Sitar was Hot Roddy.
We’ve only had Chris’ mellower and improvised Same Actor for a year or so, so it was nice to get some beats as well as the recent Bhangra influence.

Here is a new track, performed live.

hot_roddy-missed_callers.mp3

Heres another picture where you can see the Sitar a bit better.


After that there was a set from Camberwell resident Register


I listened to this track travelling up through the snowy midlands by train. I don’t know if it has a name, but it kind of distils all the elements of the set I liked into the 4 minutes. There are more mp3’s on his website.

So Faoi couldn’t show ‘cos Jonny’s laptop imploded under the weight of his tricky tuneful beats, so nothing I can give you for that I’m afraid.

So Permanent Bag System couldn’t show as Henry was imploding under the weight of his tricky vacuum action. EVEN THOUGH I know hed been rehearsing cos I tried to get into his house to see him and could hear the hoover going….

BUT, we had the Gross Consumer improvising a reprise of his old Billy Fucker act. Not as funny as PBS, but then – what is? But still the kind of interesting improvised one-off that always goes down well at the Spirit of Gravity.

Its always nice to find a man in touch with his inner Train Enthusiast. Heh.

billy_fucker_feb_laughing_train.mp3

And it is the same bunch of flowers in each picture – how weird is that?

My recording of the set ends there, but Steve from Minimal Impact has a seperate mcirophone recording of the complete set. If you’re really keen.

Malevich live edit

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Busy day isn’t it? For those of you who read the last Gravitational Pull (now at www.spiritofgravity.co.uk if you want to read it now) will now that I owe you an edit of the Malevich set at SoG on 22nd November. Well here it is – gives you some sense of the chaos that ensued; bad rapping, 2nd-hand beats and distorted noise, although that might just have been because I set the MD too loud when I was recording it. Anyway, have fun.

Malevich_22-11-05_edit.mp3

Cheers
Tony Rimbaud