Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 25th September

Spirit of Gravity presents

LITTLEBOAT / POWER UP / FALLOW

Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton

8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

Littleboat
Is a performance/recording project. A half improvised, half composed music made with live samples, sourced mostly from electric guitar. Littleboat pieces are assembled layers of sound that slowly grow and change, making references and suggestions as they go. Pops, scrapes and thuds become rhythms, while other sounds assemble themselves into harmony and fragments of melody.
Littleboat can also be seen and heard playing guitar in Betika and Sancho

Power Up
Guitar pops, scrapes and thuds become rhythms, harmony and fragments of melody.

Fallow
A side project of Komuso mainstay Derek Thompson and his fellow animal experimentalists.

Hosted by our very own electro-comedian Lee Hume
Visuals by _minimalVector

Also this month: Saturday 29^th September

Spirit of Gravity in conjunction with Brighton Live presents

SAME ACTOR / RASHAMON / TERROR WOGAN

JuJu, Gloucester Road (jujubrighton.com/)
6pm-8pm, FREE

Part of the "Brighton Live" Promoters Festival in the North Laine: see www.brightonlive.net/ for details.

For details of future Spirit of Gravity events, go to www.spiritofgravity.com/.

· Greetings:

Copies of the new Spirit of Gravity film compilation will be available at all SoG events from this month – don’t forget to pick up your copy of this 72 minute CD featuring artists from the collective re-interpreting the soundtrack of films both popular and obscure. Includes Sh*tmat, minimal impact, Same Actor, Terror Wogan and many others.

Also, a reminder that November is electro-acoustic month, and we're hosting an exceptional show including a special performance by Bemass from Sweden – see our website at www.spiritofgravity.com/ for details.

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, Tuesday 28^th August 2007

The full moon hadn’t actually risen when we started so I think Noteherder & McCloud got away with it. As I’m McCloud, Someone else wrote a review for me.

Noteherder & McCloud

www.myspace.com/noteherdermccloud

‘Investigations undertaken’, promised this intrepid crime-cracking duo, and took us off on a trip into electro-acoustic impro which, like a good midfielder – never stopped running, and still less shirked a challenge. McCloud, outside right – some know him as the Cheesemaster –revs up his analogues like a slightly f*cked old moto-velo.
Inside left, Noteherder (Chris Parfitt, so says the new electoral register) toots lyrical on soprano sax – and, with the _minimalVector visuals of the frozen forests of central Europe – we feasted our faculties on an actual audio visual spectacle! Two-thirds in, the music paused for thought, and feinted left and right to show its subtler side. Finally, we were roasted down both wings, they stuck it in the box and – I’m a fan, I’m a fan!

- Stuart Hallè

Ad:art

www.myspace.com/adartnoise

I’m sure the moon was heavy and yellow in the air when ad:art started. Its not often that our poster description really hits the nail on the head, but for ad:art the description was spot on. Daisy age hip hop beats rolling underneath everything keeping it tight and well placed; Under-amplified guitar, fuzzed and intricately played; damped piano chord figures in beautiful modulation. Well into the first song Adar breaks into some quiet singing, and the song slowly winds down to a lengthy guitar intro. At which point we realise that something has gone wrong. Adar talks to us while he reboots everything and tries to restart, they do another fabulous song, or at least a fabulous half of a song and everything goes wrong again and so they give up. For the time being.

So while Adar rebuilds his kit and at the back of the stage and be-headphoned runs through his entire set with no problems we get con_fuzed.

Con_fuzed

www.myspace.com/con_fuzed

It took Tamsin 7 hours to get here from the West Country, and finally arrived just as Noteherder & McCloud were due to start, so without a soundcheck and without even having set up beforehand Con_fuzed started. Voices and breath control through some heavy processing, and perhaps the minimum of pre-recorded backing tracks (the sound is surprisingly dense so its hard to tell), layers of wind and gentle lashings of noise, whooshes of throat heavy bass and occasional vocalisations that wandered off down mysterious alleys of their own.

After her set finished ad:art had one more attempt to play the rest of their set. Which failed, which was surprising because I’d kept half an eye on Adar, and he’d managed to successfully play all the while con_fuzed was on, but as soon as the connection was made to the PA – pfft.

So we listened to the new CD while _minimalVector made some visuals.

Mp3’s and pictures of all three acts will be on the SogBlog, (spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/), and there are videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace page (www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity).

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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