Thursday
11th February 2010
The Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN
Time 8:30 11:00 Cost £5/£4
The Spirit of Gravity present :
Bolide, Beatabet, Plurals
| Bolide | "the sound of six drunk tramps wrestling in the instrument storage room." |
| Beatabet | "Brighton based Francophone freakout." |
| Plurals | "Muted Howl and Babble." |
Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet, formed in Brighton, UK, in 2007.
"Gonzo free music and guerrilla jazz from this drug and ale gorged Brighton sextet. A lot of reeds, tapes, percussion, vocal hollerin' and the likes all captured in mysterious crud-fidelity. Come and enjoy this unseasoned brew."
Dylan Nyoukis of Chocolate Monk on 'The Authority of Omar.'
"Bolide Awkwardstra are either an acquired taste or a psilocybin victims' self-help group with a penchant for Free Jazz and novelty ethnic instruments ... or possibly both. They deliver ... flow-of-consciousness musical blather that sounds like six drunk tramps wrestling in the instrument storage room of a folk all-dayer."
www.rock-metal-music-reviews.com.
"As a launching pad to tomorrow, free jazz remains one of the most potent, if hermetic, of conceptual formulas due to its foregrounding of the spontaneous, its focus on exploration as opposed to mere tourism. In recent years players from the more traditionally omnivorous disciplines of drone, psychedelia and noise music have combined to broker a rapprochement with the form, mostly focussed on its harnessing of energy as a structural solvent - groups like Michigan's Graveyards, New York's Owl Xounds, Brighton's Bolide Awkwardstra."
David Keenan, The Wire, November 2008.
Recordings available:
'Blue Brains for Freezing' - CD-R on White Lodge, 2007
'Colossus Tebbal und Short Shrift' - CD-R on White Lodge, 2007
'The Authority of Omar' - CD-R on Chocolate Monk, 2008
'Wholesale Electrical Feel' - CD-R on White Lodge, 2008
'The Occluded Mirror' - Tape on Attic Cassettes, 2009
'Winter Triptych' - Tape on Archivo de Sangre de Dios, 2010
Bolide
Plurals
Plurals is a collection of artists from various bands and solo projects
(The Psyche Out Musikland Big Band, Duncan Harrison, Ekca Liena, Me With
Others...) who together form an expansive ambient drone / noise group.
Multi-layered keyboards, guitars, vocals and more come together in pieces
that cover lush ambience, dark and sinister noise and tripped out
psychedelics.
Plurals self-release music, but also feature / will feature on such labels
as Dead Sea Liner, Under The Spire and Dead Pilot Records.
From a review of 'Half Reality':
"Mining similar
subterranean, subconscious territory as Double Leopards, Plurals delivers
somewhat uniquely muted howl and babble on this very limited release from
the UK's Dead Sea Liner imprint. These are two nocturnal drones, evocative
of foggy nautical disasters full of protracted drownings, conjuring tragic
and gory nightmares. Apparitional voices fade in and out of the
psychedelic feedback miasma (electronics? guitar?) lending the bedrock of
distant crashes, the foundation of the more ephemeral tones, a mortifying
feel to these primarily simple but drenched and saturated gurgles and
moans. Alternatingly blissful and morose, Plurals is not exactly singular,
but they do satisfy the urge to slowly sink into a blissful wave of
underwater white light and disappear forever."
7/10 - P. Somniferum (30 June, 2009)
DISCOGRAPHY:
Sex Wrestling / Meat Lottery (tape)
Palpitation / Pumping Soil (CDR, self released)
Half Reality (CDR, Dead Sea Liner)
Split w/ Timothy C Holehouse (tape)
Split w/ Tuluum Shimmering (CDR, Dead Pilot Records)
TBA (Under The Spire Records, 2010)
TBA (Phantom Channel, 2010)
Plurals
Beatabet are a Brighton
based collective of musicians and artists with strong ties to France, they
encompass human beatboxers, ARP drivers, guitarists and video artists and
will be drawing on the full breadth of their membership for this special
occasion. We've been waiting a long time to put these people on.
Beatabet
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.
Join in and become one of the stars on the future elektrocreche compilation being recorded at every gig. You too could be on a compilation with Henry Shitmat, Shige Scotch Egg, Tony Rimbaud, DJ Cheesemaster, Monster Bobby, Dan Powell, Chris Cook, Tim Exile, Gillian Alder, Caleb ....coool.
Hosted by our very own 'Laptop'
Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector
The Spirit of Gravity: Still bringing you Monster Bobby since
2001. Oh yes.
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