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GRAVITATIONAL PULL
Dispatches from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 50 / December 06

· Happenings:
NO SPIRIT OF GRAVITY IN DECEMBER
Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 16th January 2007
Spirit of Gravity presents TWOCSINAK / KOMON / RASHAMON
Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

twocsinak:
"Wrong Music's Peculiar Pop Person promotes his new CD"
www.myspace.com/twocsandsarah

Komon:
"The Swedish Electro-songsmith plays once before she leaves"
www.myspace.com/komonkomon

Rashamon:
"The Passive Aggressive monster might play some electro-psychelectronica if he feels like it"
www.myspace.com/rashamon

For more provisional dates for the Spirit of Gravity in 2007, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.

· Greetings:
There'll be no Spirit of Gravity in December, but we'll be back in the New Year with a Trans-European evening of wonder. We may be going to the Fortune of War on Tuesday the 19th for our annual knees-up and Cheesie's birthday. If we feel like it.

· Reviewings:
Spirit of Gravity, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, Tuesday 21st November

The Reasonable Men
A crowded Marlborough stage for The Reasonable Men: Keyboards and FX, electric guitar and tone generator, acoustic guitar and FX, and computer. Quiet space sounds, over-reverbed guitar that puts me in some mind of Steve Howe circa 1975. The acoustic guitar makes no guitar sound it's so effected, and the computer supplies the motorik grooves (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorik) that occasionally slip above the horizon. It's subtle and gently interlaced, and there are highlights like when the guitarist starts using the tone generator, with the gleeful expression of a 5 year old boy with a new Darth Vader action figure.

Monster Bobby
It's been so long since Bobby graced our stage, it's not true. But he was as fabulous as ever. Insisting that as we are an electronic music night he wasn't going to play the song I requested before hand "It's unaccompanied guitar", Bobby put his deliberately low-fi loops to work, tuning the filters on the fly and occasionally accompanying himself on a quarter sized Casio Keyboard from his impressive collection. Highlights included an epic "I heard you moved away", a version of "The burning sensation of early diuretics" that with its detuned accompaniment was about as far from the Pipettes cover's tuneful cheeriness as its possible to get, and a new song called "My band" (I'll forget some of the words, and no wonder: a funny helter skelter of lame excuses from old bandmates).
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Minimal Impact
Minimal Impact, played a subtle, subdued and strangely truncated set. None of these are things that I would normally write about for Steve. For which you might want to see the review of SoG at Wrong Music when it appears. But we did all dream, just the same and Caleb wrote his down. I heard drones conjured out of heavily effected farmyard noises, and topically Russian brainwashing techniques, bass and midrange washes more coarsely grained than usual, subliminally altering our consciousness.
home.btconnect.com/shitola/mi/mi.htm

Caleb's dream
Minimal Impact graced the stage bathed by a solitary amber spotlight. A CD deck some FX and created a Tokyo Temazepam backstreet of fine eastern rain falling on tramlines and neon. Icy blasts of Nasa class bass tectonics. Playing at a cinema in your head soon.

As usual mp3's of parts of all three sets will be available at the SogBlog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/).

Yours as ever El Maestro Con Queso Editor.
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