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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 52 / February 07
·
Happenings:
THIS
SOUND BUREAUCRACY / HOT RODDY / KEYKEEPER+TEMPOS / KOMUSO BUDDHA MACHINES
Marlborough
Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm,
£4/£3 concs.
This
Sound Bureaucracy
SoG Founders provide a further report on their analysis of found sound and
spoken word
Hot Roddy
Chris Cook sets his rights to Wrongs with broken sitar music
KeyKeeper+Tempos
henry will use household appliances, laptop, fx and percussion in a 40
minute noise session
Komuso buddha machines
Komuso in a special one off piece for buddha machines and audience
For
details of more Spirit of Gravity events in 2007, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
·
Greetings:
Our
quote from Bobby last month - "I'm going to go home now, and fall
asleep listening to a high pitched ringing sound in my ear." drew
some concerned replies from members of the mailing list. We've passed on
your comments and suggestions to Monster Bobby who assure us that the
ringing sound has gone and his hearing is back to normal and he'll try to
be more careful in future. Needless to say, this isn't a problem at the
Marlborough.
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton,
Tuesday 17th January
And
so were we, after the brief lust for volume at SoG@Wrong, back in the cosy
confines of the Marlborough Theatre, where people Sit and Listen and Pay
Attention to what's going on.
Rashamon
Lee has been putting his efforts into standup comedy recently, which
presumably means he didn't have time to practice on his new bass guitar or
melodica for this show. But that didn't matter, armed with only his laptop
and with his own ghost wavering on the wall behind him Rashamon reigned in
the crunchy hip hop beats and upped the early eighties electro stakes.
Some nice new buzzing bass sounds, the usual ringing piano and
kaleidoscope of guitar notes, it was lovely here and would have been
wonderful at the Wrong night. The old favourite "Mates to some
pilgrim" got yet another reworking, without the swearing and free
jazz this time. Nice.
Komon
However Komon did bring her melodica, but not the promised guitar, but we
didn't care. Songs were delivered with proper keyboard skills, occasional
laptop accompaniment and the previously mentioned melodica along with a
charming delivery and great choice of cover versions, it made for a great
set.
Twocsinak
Continuing the charm offensive, and the long distance travel (Bristol
rather than Sweden in his case) came Wrong Music’s errant new boy. Only
one song from the brand new "Jesus was a brave little toaster"
CD, but lots of others, including the legendary "Entire Fall LP in 4
minutes" as the last song. There was a song about working in an old
people’s home made from sounds derived from plastic apron pops and
rubber glove boings that was quite touching. Some songs with this odd
pitch bent singing that was most peculiar. All round strangeness.
As usual mp3s of parts of all of these sets will be available at the
SogBlog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/).
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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