Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 23 September

Spirit of Gravity presents

BBBLOOD / SLOW LISTENER / MINIMAL IMPACT

The Three & Ten, 10 Steine St, BN2 1TE

8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

At their last astounding show Upstairs at the 3&10, The Spirit of Gravity present an evening of abstract noise to celebrate Notional Noise Day featuring minimal impact, BBBlood and Slow Listener.

BBBlood

London based Nost8ment records noise maker generates his own brand of sound spew and bizarre babble tape jibber-jabber, employing crude synths, tape loops, effects pedal noise and a tobacco tin. SoG tried to book BBBlood once before - he sent some friends instead and we never played the Albert again.

Slow Listener

Surprisingly tuneful feedback from the Archivo de Sangre de Dios label founder. Noise music’s answer to the MySpace phenomenon of the Arctic Monkeys.

minimal impact - Sounds Of The Planets 2
Two years ago the first space flight around the solar system blasted off. minimal impact now invite you on a longer journey in to the outer reaches of the universe. Using real sounds from the outer reaches of the universe and reconstructed under the guidance of the Music Of The Spheres.
Ready for Blast Off?

Hosted by our very own electro-comedian Lee Hume
live interactive visuals by _minimalVector

For details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.

We have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/

There are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity

There are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at

www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity

There are now also some of _minimalVector’s films featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo HDTV page

www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity

· Greetings:

The upcoming Spirit of Gravity will be our last Upstairs at the Three and Ten, we’ve had a happy association here and with the same company at the Little Marlborough Theatre and would like to say thanks to Nicky and Eden for asking us along when we moved.

And for once we’re moving of our own accord and not because we’ve offended the management with our Uber Droning., This time we’re off to the Komedia back bar. We have a super show lined up for October, featuring some old favourites and the kind of stuff we haven’t been able to host here. But first we want to enjoy the feast of fun with Slow Listener, BBBlood and minimal impact in the September show (There is in fact some quiet irony afoot here that I’ll explain if you ask me), so come and drink a toast to Nicky, Eden and the 3&10 and new times.

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Three and Ten, Brighton, Tuesday 26 August

Capslock 20s after fair warning started the evening off as they’d finished the previous show, but Strobe Experiment Number 2 seemed to be a much better working of the idea: A microphone was set to the front of a strobe (set up at the back of the hall) and fed through a set of effects, the output was fed to _minimalVector to trigger image manipulation that worked against and in tandem with the Strobe.

The sound worked better this time, the feedback was controlled and tuneful, the strobe clicking and pitching around in the delay pedal, at times glitchy and other times wobbling like some early 60s electronics. The images (circles, letters, geometria) enhanced this - coming on at times like the Ipcress file, before bleaching out to stark whiteness and warping back into pixilation and quiet tight structure.

A little video on the sogblog and in the MySpace videos.

The Birds of Disco Valley was the Birds of Death Valley took on the Disco Tears next.

They had their own visuals again, the world from space and some sparkling disco showpieces. Starting with a Theremin buzz and mobile phone noise we had a rolling drum break well up with a nice deep bassline, squirreling quietly into computer cracks and gentle interplay between melodica and mute cornet before building back up with beats and some free form blowing and live bass guitar crescendo. The longest set we’ve had from this loose grouping and very welcome it was, too.

Tomas Hiltz plays two basses or should that be a bass and a funny looking thing with 6 strings some of which are bass strings, but hasn’t got a body and looks more like a pedal steel but played slung around the neck like a bass?

Anyway, stack it through a big chunk of electronic gizmodry and really they become slightly different sound sources for mayhem results. In fact mayhem isn’t really right either it was too subtle for that, a back and forth and interplay between convoluted run away sounds to mix and merge and run back at us from this odd mix on stage, one grey haired and fragmented by _minimalVectors visuals, the other jet haired and a jet black silhouette somehow escaping them.

It starts off like some Eno informed improv, chirrup and prog sound guitar, before we get a wah wah bass funk and some scratchy rhythm, eventually drum loop settling things down before swells of delay engulf everything and start another calmer direction, again building to a rhythm and drone and a thick judder for close.

Some video on the _minimalVector HDTV page - you can see the bass stick quite clearly, odd in’t’it?

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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