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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 74 / November 08
·
Happenings:
WAXED
APPLE / PASSIONDALE / CONCRETE BELLY
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5/£3
Waxed
Apple
Returning from self imposed exile in east Berlin (I thought it was
Southampton?) to perform a new set of feedback drenched motorik synth
punk.
Passiondale
Relentless
rising groovescapes, uncomfortable samples, bleeping toms, shimmering
guitar work and distorted howling.
Concrete
Belly
Industrial, ambient, noise rock: Concrete Belly wears a furry suit, and
uses circuit bent toys, drum machines, guitars.
Hosted
by our very own 'Laptop' 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
Also
this month…..
Mon.
17th November 8.30pm doors / 9pm start
CMN
TOUR: MURCOF with group instrumental bcn216 & visuals + OREN MARSHALL
Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton
Tickets: £9adv. / £10 on the door: Available from Duke of York's Box
Office: 0871 704 2056 / Rounder Records: 01273 325440 / Resident: 01273
606312 / TicketWeb: www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tijuana’s Fernando Corona, aka Murcof, is still willing to take techno
to new frontiers. Using orchestral instruments and sparse micro-beats,
avant-garde composition and sub-bass drones, church organ tones with
Orbital-style blips his sound ranges from barely audible to
furniture-shakingly loud.
This is a dream opportunity to hear Murcof's distinctive hybrid of
carefully measured electronics, accompanied for the first time by live
string and brass players in a synchronised visual environment. The Flicker
project evokes elemental forces, and the visuals for Océano will be
created live each night using smoke, water and dust along with infrared
cameras and digital alchemy.
"At the Greenwich Planetarium last October, leaning back in my seat
and gawping at the extraordinary morphing graphics on the concave ceiling,
I felt more like Bowman speeding through the Star Gate in 2001: A Space
Odyssey” The Guardian (on Murcof at Greenwich Planetarium, 2007)
"The most thrillingly out-there, transcendentally bewitching and
metaphysically mind-warping trip" Time Out
www.murcof.com
www.myspace.com/slowfootrecords
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity at Night-time Fixations, the Phoenix Gallery, Brighton Saturday
25 October
Night-time
Fixations, part of the cross-Brighton “White nights” all night
festival, was amazing, being in a building with so much going on in a town
awake all night with people going from strange event to strange event was
brilliant.
We
had a room in The Phoenix Gallery with 3 projectors set up and a small PA
with members of the collective plus a few others.
Briefly:
ElMaes (with a guest appearance from Chris Cook before his featured set at
the Unitarian Church), Steve’s Boutique (2 performances from), Nyx,
I’m Dr Buoyant, Noteherder & McCloud, HRT, Slash’s Wormhole, Stu
“Dizzy Tiger” Huggett, Henry Collins and Lizzie, Chris Cook and Camilo
(a tabla player), and wrapping it all up, The WrongSog Safesnyx (an open
session with anyone that was still around from about 4:30 until the end,
and no requests were performed).
There
will be a longer piece on this at the SogBlog
with video, pictures, and if I can get the editing, done some audio.
What
a night this was, it was nice to able to play at a reasonable volume, plus
such a great show.
Starting
off with a Bass Off improv session from Slash’s Wormhole (Henry
Collins new bass hoover project) and DJScotchEgg on SH101, a subsonic
rumbling of slowly rotating synthesiser with clangorous bass notes from
the hoover. The hoover itself deserves describing, but I think its beyond
me, suffice to say its worn round the neck bass guitar style and has 2
strings. The slow climax came with the hoover switched on and making the
string scream and scrape. Incredible.
Somewhere
along the line between Hasil Adkins and Foetus rockabilly had a baby and
it was The Meat Sweats. A man in a pig mask plays bent toys while
his companion in a lab coat has a laptop. Out on the floor we have a front
man (yes I know, its all go isn’t it?) screaming and running around. The
songs are short sweaty and noisy, ripping up jagged 12 bars and busting
them against your head: very funny. And a little disturbing.
For
once we didn’t really need the _minimalVector visuals, but they were
rather good pastel blocks morphing about.
DJScotchEgg
held the pivotal point of the night and returned us to the sonic texture
side of things in front of a backdrop that put me in mind of Miles
Davis’ “Sketches of Spain”. As well as the traditional Japanese
GameBoy, Shige also had the SH101 and a number of small boxes. Building up
a somewhat less assaulting performance than we may be used to, this was
sonically rich and deep with odd flourishes of beats and distortion. A
special and quite marvellous set. I’ll be getting some of this onto the
SogBlog as soon as I can.
Then
continuing our zigzag of an evening we had the return of Shitmat to
the home that bred him. Against a TV interference pattern of candy stripes
Henry loomed and looned, battering through some breakcore classics,
refusing a rewind, but with plenty of fastforwards he was on top form
crowning his set with a foreshortened “Ellesse Warrior”.
It
was also great to revisit the Electro-creche where people bring in toys
and keyboards to provide impromptu entertainment between acts. So much
better than playing CD’s.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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