Thursday
11th March 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 :
Broken Star, Hellboy, Grasscut
| Broken Star | "NOCTURNAL WE, DIURNAL YOU." |
| Hellboy | "tickling our ear drums." |
| Grasscut | "Cathedral of 'Muppet'." |
Broken Star perform “NOCTURNAL WE, DIURNAL YOU” a one-off combination of urban twilight images and improvised sound.
The opposite is of Nocturnal is (Diurnal) 'meaning happening by day, coming out during the day, occurring every day'.
This crepuscular* adventure of the Broken Star Duo takes place within the confines of London between October and January. Eyes avert from the sight of other human beings (whenever possible!). The moon, sun and sky are seen through the branches of trees as time passes... and when not... streetlamps, car headlamps cut through the twilight (and on occasion fog) to guide us through our journey. Sit back and enjoy this sometimes bumpy Broken Star ride.
* Crepuscular: meaning animals that come out at twilight
Broken
Star is the duo formed in 2006 by Tom Del Rio, (Guitar and visuals) and
Andrew Greaves (keyboards) to improvise sounds to accompany film, video
and as on this occasion, their own visual images.
Tom’s guitar work combines richly textured washes, bleeps, scratches and
resonant lead lines. Andrew supplies a mix of haunting melodies and
seductively glitchy grooves..The
influences are wide ranging, from Electronica, Jazz, Gospel & Rock to
Middle-Eastern, Classical and Minimalism.
Andrew Greaves, keys/ beat programming, ivory tinkler. Beekeeper in Broken
Star’s buzzy universe and master of analog/digital synthesis . Andrew
combines warm tones/textures, glitchy organ, dark Rhodes and deep sub
bass. Andrew’s
references range from the BBC electronic workshop, Terry Riley, Can, Eno,
Ethiopian funk, through to electric Miles (Davis) and beyond. The
soul/premeditator to Tom's sometimes ASBO guitar lines.
Tom Del Rio: Ebowed/bowed/banged & strummed/picked guitars, loose cables: Tom combines buzzsaw/jackhammer noise with cello/viola melodic tones through various lo-fi and hit-tech filters, phasers and time/pitch delay devices. Tom’s references include Belew, Hendrix, Marr, Greenwood, Miles Davis, Japan, Joy Division, Radiohead, Eno, Bernard Hermann.
Broken Star
Hellboy
Hellboy aka Michael McDowell has been active on the rave circuit for a
good few years now, after spells playing out in europe he decided to move
to brighton and since 2008 has been tickling our ear drums regularly with
his experimental live shows accross various venues in town. One of the Uks
most versatile producers this year sees Mr McDowell delving even deeper
into the unknown with his live dub act and music concrete experiments.
Hellboy
grasscut is Andrew
Phillips and Marcus O'Dair. Phillips is an award-winning film and
television composer with over 100 screen credits (to be viewed at
unitedagents.co.uk/film/andrew-phillips/). His soundtrack album, Home, is
out now on Burning Shed and he has recently contributed tracks to Lo
Recordings. O'Dair contributes double bass, keyboards and miscellaneous
noise.
Their forthcoming debut album is a journey from the Sussex South Downs of
'High Down', through the collapsing Nintendo Cathedral of 'Muppet', to the
transcendence of 'In Her Pride'. Weaving in between the lead vocal are
voices from the past and the present, snatched from mobile phones &
gramophones - a 1920s tenor, gossiping mums, a Victorian singing poet, a
woman reminiscing about post-war rationing...
As well as opening the main stage at The Big Chill 2009, grasscut have
performed at Tate Britain, the ICA, Koko, Cargo and Brighton's Duke of
York's arthouse cinema, as well as in France and Belgium. Among those with
whom they have shared stages are Plaid, Clark, Luke Vibert, Tim Exile,
Nathan Fake, Daedelus, Speech Debelle, Anti-Pop Consortium, Fujiya &
Miyagi, Mark Pritchard, Acoustic Ladyland, The Invisible and Wildbirds
& Peacedrums. As well as live sessions for Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music
show and Xfm, they have had airplay from BBC Radio 1, 2 and 3, as well as
in Belgium and Japan. They have remixed Bonobo, Jaga Jazzist and Voluntary
Butler Scheme, while the glorious Nathan Fake in turn re-worked Grasscut's
second single, Muppet.
http://www.myspace.com/grasscutmusic
Grasscut
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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