Tetras

www.auralterrains.com/listeningroom.php

www.vimeo.com/1540029

wwwvimeo.com/5472025

Tetras consists of Thanos Chrysakis (laptop), James O'Sullivan (guitar) Oli Mayne (vibraphone) and Jerry Wigens (clarinet). 
Their improvisations are based on spectral confluences and collisions of sonic matter. They have worked together and in different formations in a number of recordings and appearances in UK and abroad. Some of their releases can be found on Aural Terrains record label. Between April / June - and in different formations- will be on tour in Spain, Central and Eastern Europe. 

Concrete Belly

CONCRETE BELLY is one man utilising modified toys, drum machines, guitars and hand built effects. The sound goes from psychedelic ambience to sheer early sonic youth guitar noise and feedback. The sets is guaranteed to be an eclectic mix of industrial, electronic, ambient, deep bass and noise.

Jez North

www.myspace.com/jeznorth

Jez North have been a recording pop act for 8 years and playing live the past 4. They are known for their trademark costumes, distortion, pop covers and high energy nudity. They have played many gigs over the years including several Wrong Music nights and even played Alton once (get them!). They have a 2-3 person live line up.

ALL STOP... imagine,
lash out just this one time no control
take their sight
still there but now they feel
instead of reading, talking, laughing just feeling
now we're here
pieces of us in my hands, on the floor, in my pockets
RED GLORY

Hosted by our very own 'Laptop' Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector

There will be the elektrocreche available for any unaccompanied toys who will be looked after during the intervals by our professionally trained team of volunteers. And anybody else that wants to bring along a sound toy to play with.

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

We now have a Facebook group where you can be kept up to date with shows and information:

www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=75568366205

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:

First up I was obviously a bit overexcited about Leafcutter John who can't make it as he's gearing up for his festival show with Talvin Singh at the Pavilion, which I'd naturally recommend.

So we got in Portsmouth Brut Vox specialists Jez North as a replacement, who, fresh from scaring yankee indie boys off the internet for trying to use the same name, should make quite an impact.

That makes it quite a bill, Tetras seeing the return of electro-acoustic maestros Thanos Chrysakis, James Sullivan etc etc for the first time since we left the 3&10, and also concrete belly who has become a father since he played last year.

If things go according to plan we should also be welcoming Lucy who will be providing visuals for the first time.

Our Festival line up currently stands at:

Adam Bushell “I am sitting in a room” (Alvin Lucier)
Sogchestra “In C” (Terry Riley)
Pimmel “Piece for massed fuzz organs” (Andy something)
House Music – an installation for sound and light by Caleb Madden (instead of the elektrocreche)

18^th May – be there.

·                     Reviewings

Spirit of Gravity at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, Thursday 11^th March 2010

Last month was another good mix of things starting with the light and sound experience of Broken Star, playing against a slideshow of Tom Dl Ro's photographs of London slipping through night and into day, starting with electric piano tinkles in darkness, sustained and pinging guitars, through fuzz organs and massive sustains, into early dawn. With slow SH101 basslines and odd beats fading in and out, it was a modern meddle era psychedelia. We liked 'em so much we roped them into the collective.

Filling the middle of the show with an edited version of an epic new piece was Hellboy. Starting where Broken Star left off and bending straight into darker spaces. Detuned clavichords and strings building quite an air of menace before his vocals let rip in a cathartic wail. This was intense personal stuff, straight from the soul.

Rounding off the night was a really tight set from Grasscut, coming on like twin Elvis Costellos raised in rural England, sounding vaguely like a less po-faced Tuxedomoon, Grasscut were entertaining and twitchy. A strange melange of tricky songwriting and cheap sounds with fine tuned rhythms and the slight air of melancholy that seems to pervade so much of the best of our musical landscape.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

Editor.