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Dispatches
from the Spirit of Gravity / Edition 59 / September 07 Part One
·
Happenings:
This
is a special bonus transmission to let you know that we will performing
as part of the free Brighton Live (www.brightonlive.net)
Promoters Festival in the North Laine on 29th
Sept between 6 and 8 pm.
At
the world famous as seen on TV “Ju Ju”
on Gloucester Road (jujubrighton.com/)
Appearing
will be members of the SoG collective:
Same
Actor (live Sitar processing)
Rashamon
(Local comedian Lee Hume in electronica guise)
and
Terror Wogan (lo-fi
Atari ragga)
Not
sure how this is going to
work yet – but Tim and Soly will clear some
space in the shop for us, we will be in the window so you can stand around
outside, and we’re also looking at getting _minimal vector involved in
some way with his live visuals.
For
details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.
·
Greetings:
New
CD available via us (sssh) featuring new
tracks by Shitmat, Same Actor, Terror Wogan,
minimal impact, McCloud, I’m Dr Buoyant etc etc.
Also in the pipeline a Downloadable compilation from the Wrong Music website. Crazy festival music: SoG lets it hair grow long.
·
Reviewings:
Spirit
of Gravity
at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton,
Tuesday 31st July 2007
Also
I’ll try and use this opportunity to get up to date with the live
reviews, but probably fail miserably.
minimal
impact
Unfortunately
Rekalix was unable to come along following a
catastrophic laptop crash that also put him out of a festival in eastern
Europe. So stepping in at the last minute we had minimal impact in super
minimal mode. Stripped right down to drones and buzzes; uncluttered
without the expansive roaring trademark sound, this was an interesting
exploration of his oeuvre.
Misha
Begley
Misha
Begley, making his live debut must easily be the youngest performer to
play the Spirit of Gravity to date. A laptop, mp3 player, effects,
keyboard and microphone starting off with a harsh pulsed scraping
contrasted with tectonic abstractions and minor weeps made a strong start
to the set. After some remarks on the recent quality of Dr Who he did a
tribute to fear with overlayered vocodered
voices robocized into an uneasy alliance atop
a krafty backing. Then switching tack he
cracked a version of “Willows Song” that easily upped the unease by
distorting the vocals and making the backing guitar figure into a jarring
abrasive loop, recycling the dread back into a tactile hallucination of
uneasiness. A great debut.
Deepkiss
720 featuring Meat Dream
From
the youngest to play to the tallest (Deepkiss720: even taller than tall
Dan) and another debut (from his collaborators for the night Meat Dream).
An interesting setup: Jason on the left with his collection of home made
apparatus, exposed electronics and effects.
On the right Meat Dream with home made suits, helmets, masks. The
instrumentation was harder to follow, definitely a guitar butchered with
large objects bolted on the outside; a glove with contacts that seemed to
trigger a mug tree and a set of contacts on a drum; a codpiece joystick
controller.
The
theatricality inherent in the set up gives Meat Dream an interesting edge
from the start, the noise is informed by the early cabaret thin guitar
sound, slightly lumpen motoriked
drums and squeals of unhinged home made theremin
and buzzing earth loops.
Its
indescribable. Which is why we have the Sogblog.
But then again, the mp3’s don’t do the live event justice, which is
why we call it Experiental.
Live
mp3's are available on the SogBlog (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/),
while mp3s from the film compilation are available on the MySpace
site (www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity),
along with new video-bursts.
Yours
as ever
El
Maestro Con Queso
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