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PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 94 / July 10
·
Happenings:
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Thursday 29th July 2010
SAME
ACTOR / MEDICINE AND DUTY / THE 55TH FLOTILLA
The
Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street,
Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time
8:30 - 11:00 Cost £5 / £4
Same
Actor
- Life President of Spirit Of Gravity uses
sitar, laptop and microphone to instigate some sonic re-shuffling in the
cabinet.
Medicine
and Duty - manic rare grooves, muddy yet crisp.
The
55th Flotilla - Live electronics with a nautical twist.
Same
Actor
Chris
Cook is the Life president of The Spirit of Gravity he uses sitar,
laptop and microphone to instigate some sonic re-shuffling in the
cabinet. He has a CD on the BipHop as Same
Actor and on Wrong Music as Hot Roddy. He
also has many tracks on more or less peculiar compilations.
Medicine and Duty
"A singular ensemble whose sound is all their own... These druids
conjure up a similar atmosphere as late '70s Red Crayola
and later period This Heat... Music Lovers, you know you just cain't
resist such a rare groove!" (Julian Cope)
"Manic, muddy yet crisp, Medicine and Duty are analogue to dig
wreckage incarnate. With definite no-wave leanings, they manage to
straddle a line demarcating the formless avant
looneysphere they have a hard-on for and
delusional pop grandeur, all the while hearkening back to the weirdness
of Mars. Yeah. It's that kind of energy." (Foxy Digitalis)
“The only band that could have kept me in the Wrong Music basement at
3am on a work night” (EMCQ)
The 55th Flotilla
Brothers Toby & Jake have been performing as The 55th Flotilla for
the past five years, playing live electronic music with a nautical
twist. Not content with the dull 'geeks & laptops' performances of
many live producers, the 55th build their own controls, from exercise
bikes to ship's wheels.
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:
The
long awaited remix CD of Listen with Sarah's seminal "Animal
hop" has finally been released free on-line,
it features versions by mine and Steve minimal impacts Casio-step band
along with those by Chris Same Actor, Ergo Phizmiz
and other luminaries.
http://wombnet.blogspot.com/2010/05/zoo-animal-hop-remixes.html
And
remember, due to requests we’ve taken the unusual steps of making
advance tickets available for the Eugene Chadbourne
show in September. We will of course still keep some available on the
door.
www.wegottickets.com/event/82883
·
Reviewings
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton,
Thursday 24th June 2010
It’s
an all action evening on a lovely summer day for the mid-year Spirit of
Gravity, and unusually we aren't up against an England game (some of us
can still feel the roar of the Ladies downstairs at The Marlborough for
Joe Cole’s goal in the last competition).
Anyway
celebrating that, we were happy to have Karl and Chloe from The A
Band with their side project The
Zero Map (something to do with symmetry apparently). They set up on
a table in front of the stage with a semi abstract video projection
behind them, improvising using guitars old keyboards and a raft of
effects. Starting with a wobbly didgeridoo-esque
warble, the wedge of noises shuddered and shimmered to the forefront as
the pair of them worked busily around the table.
Second
were The Warrior Squares
playing the best set I’ve seen from them yet. Banging straight in with
Geoff Leigh’s flute fuzzed up over a rhythm that kicked along really
well, it was a cross between Neu at their
grooviest crossed with an early Orb beef, and a repetitive but not
repeating bass part. They explored this for
as long as was necessary before breaking down into a completely abstract
middle section where The Tree got bowed and plucked while Geoff’s
flute loops provided no rhythmic relief. The final part was almost into
post punk angular mode with Geoff’s gibberish interlocking with an
elliptical drum part and jerky bass.
Comment
of the evening “For some reason this really reminds me of Henry Cow or
the Work”.
And
rounding off the evening we had ViV
back for the first time since they changed their name from Vole (at the
last show at The Marlborough Theatre). Alister
has a new old Korg as well his cornet and
spent a lot of time at that, it blended well with the viola, vibes and
flute and guitar. The new songs they played seemed fidgety and uncertain
compared to their debut CD, although still profoundly at the quiet end
of the sonic spectrum. They finished with a spectacularly slow version
of my favourite from the first time they played “Have you seen this
cat” which had very long pauses between each segment and has given
rise to me using “Stately” in a SoG
review for the first time.
It
pays to increase your word power.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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