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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 55 / May 07
·
Happenings:
TERROR
WOGAN VS. SIRLOIN
DION / FAOI / HARMONIUM A HASH TABLE
Marlborough
Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm,
£4/£3 concs.
Three
special performances for the Brighton fringe Festival, now that its
finished, the debut of the new psychedelic acoustic drone project by
minimal impact, a new collaboration for Waxed Apple member Terror Wogan
and a new instrument for Jonny Faoi.
Terror
Wogan V Sirloin Dion
Evil Irish DJ collaborates with meaty Canadian warbler, to create circuit
bent dubstep grime pop hits
Faoi
Norm laptop tweaker without a laptop to
tweak - a tower of electronic power.
Harmonium
A Hash Table
DBA drone; Harmonium, guitar and effects, minimal impact goes acoustic.
We'd
like to welcome our new compere for the Spirit
of Gravity, the comedian formerly known as Rashamon,
Mr Lee Hume (www.myspace.com/leehume)
Also, and brand new for this month, we will be having visuals provided by
"_minimalVector"
who has developed his own software, it's all going on these days, int'it.
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
·
Greetings:
The
new Spirit of Gravity Compilation, known for the time being as
"the film compilation", is almost ready, featuring tracks by Hot
Roddy, minimal impact, Dan "radio 3"
Powell, Shitmat, Terror Wogan,
This Sound Bureaucracy, Hoodlum Priest and McCloud, its good stuff. There
are some previews on our MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity
(today’s Gravitational Pull seems to be sponsored by NewsCorp).
I'm Dr Bouyant also has a track on the
new "Mystic Moods" compilation from Dutch Web Label WeirdoMusic:
"The wholemark of WM Recordings is
'different', and so it's Mystic Moods with a wink, a lighthearted
take on the mystic deriving it's campy cues from the Mystic Moods
Orchestra, rituals and therapy, art and science fiction, the metascientific
questions scientists are being forced to ask regarding origins and
existence, and the rise of fanaticism in the world of faith, in short:
it's music for your undisputed pleasure...!"
Download Mystic Moods for free: www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm063.htm
And speaking of free downloads, Simon Fupper
who played last summer at SoG has 2 new, and a
number of old albums available for free download at www.fupper.co.uk
On the gig front, Same Actor, Bela Emerson and Dear Britch will be playing at Zuma in Brighton on 6th June, with a flyer available at the following link: http://a557.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/l_f6a472e3386183b3c6520c8e18d8429c.jpg
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton,
Tuesday 24th April 2007
Dan
Powell
I missed the first few seconds of Dan’s set, and spent the rest of it
feeling as though I was trying to catch up; it always seemed one or two
steps beyond my grasp. An array of objects cluttered the table in front of
him, some glasses half filled with water, a singing bowl, some chimes, all
with a microphone hovering over them linked back to his
laptop. Dan worked methodically and convincingly at these
objects, wiping the rim of a glass would result in a whoosh, or a cluster
of notes or a chirruping set of clacks. A bang of the bowl could give rise
to conversations between neighbours, a pseudo rhythm that would last a few
bars, or a 1960s computer being carried on a cartoon train, thick with
bleeps and skipping clicks, or maybe a decaying bong of a distant church:
there seemed to be some relationship between what went on and what sounds
came out, but it was constantly shifting and I felt if only I'd been
paying attention at the beginning it would all have made sense. Dan (www.myspace.com/danpowell)
seemed to have no such problems, confidently working his way around,
seemingly unsurprised at what was happening.
Made out of Wool
Made out of Wool (www.myspace.com/madeoutofwool)
are a two piece, guitar and fx and things and fx.
The things include a violin, shakers and voice, and an old beige reel to
reel tape with an ill fitting homemade tape loop skittering around in it.
The set starts with vocal moans and twittering guitar shimmers and the
wobbly tape loop captures moments and warps them into its own dimension.
The guitar may feedback gently, and the violin may drone. When the
jingle bells start to shimmer over the waves of the acoustic ocean I start
to hallucinate quite wildly, traces of red light shooting off the
sparkling bells in all directions. Fortunately that's quite near the end
of the set.
The Gross Consumer
As I mention on the Sogblog (mp3s of many live
shows available for free download), there was some scepticism about
whether it was possible for the spirit of Gravity to host anyone of the
notoriety of The Gross Consumer. But we booked him and surely he did come,
for his first show in Brighton for 2007 The Gross Consumer (www.myspace.com/iamthegrossconsumer)
came to us. And a fine show it was, too. After the drifting bliss of the
rest of the evening The Gross Consumer took us off at tangents beaty,
humorous and altogether far more Sharon Smith. A wayward mangling of
sampled speech, snatches of music, drum machines and odd loops, whipped up
backwards and sideways with throwaway remarks and misleading
introductions. Somewhat more structured than his Billy F*cker
set from last year, this cleared my head nicely for the (very) long walk
home.
Outstanding
low bitrate excerpts from all three sets are
available on the Sogblog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/),
and also reviews and pictures are available via the gallery on the Spirit
of Gravity website (www.spiritofgravity.com/).
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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