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GRAVITATIONAL
PULL
Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 56 / June 07
·
Happenings:
ELMAES
/ THE BIRDS OF DEATH VALLEY / J’M BLACK
Marlborough
Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton
8.30-11pm,
£4/£3 concs.
The
Spirit of Gravity in conjunction with Dutch web label WM Recordings are
delighted to present this evening of 21st Century Psychedelia.
Elmaes
Elmaes will be performing the live debut of their single "5" in
its 25 minute version, described by The Wire as "pretty damn
Ouroboric" this piece is based around Thai chanting, Sitar and Tabla,
along with a special light show and should induce a pleasingly altered
state of consciousness.
The
Birds Of Death Valley
Also performing
will be the Birds of Death Valley with a set inspired by the cosmic
philosophies of Sun Ra and jammed full of cornet, drones, dub bleeps and
beats. La Monte Young meets Phil Cochran at the cosmic roots of drone dub.
J’m
Black
And completing the evening will be a new project from guitarist J'm Black.
J’m is a member of the Brighton Safehouse collective, Torque and Urban
Myth. For this show he will be performing a solo set with my new
multi-track loop set-up.
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
·
Greetings:
Coming
up:
Wrongstock: The Spirit of Gravity will be
hosting one afternoon of the Wrongstock
festival in August (www.wrongstock.co.uk/).
At a secret location near Brighton. A
crazy weekend.
Tantalisingly close, the new SoG compilation CD
of music inspired by films. Preview tracks on the MySpace
site (www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity)
Electro-acoustic month in November.
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton,
Tuesday 29th May 2007
I
was on a Gondola when this Spirit of Gravity happened so I sent my spies
down - here are notes from the evening, what happened, overheard comments,
random emails and such.
Harmonium A Hash Table started with a
slow sitar multitrack drone leading in to a
speech about relaxing to a funky bass beat. This then merged into the
Harmonium Drone picking up speed as bongos and drums were added to an
almost "rave" like state. Then the breakdown
to birds screeching and slide guitar, building back again for another ten
minutes of "rave" with motorik
guitar. To finish a thunderous guitar splatting
3 minutes with the grind of giant cog wheels.
"What on earth was that - electronica - dronepsychotica
more like".
"Hands in the air stuff".
"I've never seen Steve do anything with, er,
musical content before. Fantastic."
Possibly a preview for next months Psychedelic
night?
Faoi couldn't make it.
Next up, Terror Wogan vs
Sirloin Dion,
I have never seen so much kit on the stage. Lots of strange noises never
heard before, feedback, and mechanical grind-dub. Then a final train
journey aware from planet terror. dronepsychotica
vs mechanical grind-dub.
Terror says: The dubstep grind slo
mo beats were from a Hammond Auto Vari 64
preset drum machine, think it was made in the 70's? that
was going through a vintage Big Muff distortion pedal, together they
created the dubstep bass grind.
Plus: a Game Boy, circuit bent 505 drum machine, 1960's British Telecom
echo unit (why did BT have echo units??) a 1960's reverb of unknown
origin, and some other stuff I can't remember. And we brought some extra
lights and a smoke machine, which we were only allowed to use a cigarettes
worth of smoke out of.
Real guitar intro. Lots of
feedback.
And for the finale minimal impact vs
Terror Wogan vs
Sirloin Dion. Twenty minutes of
squelching synths, undefined feedback, general
boinging everyone looking around to see who it
was that was making that noise -I even heard bagpipes. Twenty minutes well
spent.
The images provided by _minimalVector images
were well liked by all, an almost unheard of unanimous positive verdict.
It's very rare that a room of people can agree on a piece of subjective
art. Nice work Bartosz. You can see some of
the images on the sogblog, where you can also
download mp3's of the show.
"F*ck Berlin, We have S.O.G" I heard someone say......
Mp3's are available on the SogBlog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/),
mp3s are available on the MySpace site (www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity),
which has been slightly updated. Be our friend.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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