Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 24 June

Spirit of Gravity presents

THE VAINGLORIES / POWER UP + more to be confirmed

The Three & Ten, 10 Steine St, BN2 1TE

8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

The Vainglories
”Pretty electronica in a bad mood.“

The first live performance for The Vainglories was at Spirit of Gravity in January 2008, as described on the tin: beautifully crafted electronica with dark undertones and scary undercurrents. Sat at a keyboard, laptop and FX Melbourne native Gillian Allder worked her songs by building up a background through the laptop into concisely structure songs with haunting piano leads over the top. Also the first 3/4 time piece we’ve had played in longer than I can remember… The visuals from _minimalVector were based around the weird bleach out you get at the end of a roll of 35mm film.

Power Up

"Chris wishes Powerup sounded like Oasis. Kathy is pretty glad that they don't. Jo thinks they sound like adventures and spaceships, which is good ‘cause she has to listen to them rehearse A LOT. One time they played their stuff to Thurston Moore. He thought they sounded like electric blood. Powerup thought that was pretty cool. They will be megastars one day I'm sure...."

Hosted by our very own electro-comedian Lee Hume
live interactive visuals by _minimalVector

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

We have video and audio on the Spirit of Gravity mp3 blog from all our recent shows at spiritofgravity-brighton.blogspot.com/

There are other videos on the Spirit of Gravity MySpace page at www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity

There are also downloads available of some complete Spirit of Gravity sets at www.archive.org/details/the-spirit-of-gravity

There are now also some of _minimalVector’s films featuring Spirit of Gravity acts and guests at the Vimeo HDTV page www.vimeo.com/thespiritofgravity

· Greetings:

Last months scare about losing _minimalVector to Polish Flash programming behind us, just a reminder that we have video footage on the sogblog and myspace page and HD TV on the Vimeo site.

Still avidly listening to Clive Craskes shows on Reverb Radio. And we're going out to Wrong Music on the 16th July for the Osaka Invasion.

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Three and Ten, Brighton, Tuesday 27 May

Les Dins

When he’s not being minimal impact Steve spends a large part of the year in deepest Picardy where he has a free run at the local small shops and finds strange and beautiful French LP’s. The relaxing rural life obviously has beneficial effects as this set of low key techno is somewhat less intense, and more obviously musical. Mostly sampled from the works of Nino Nardini, primarily known as a tireless Library composer under a number of pseudonyms, Les Dins gives a mid tempo housey boost to psychedelic panning whooshes and whirrs, bass lines and (shock) drum tracks.

Chris Cook and Chris Parfitt

Performing a microtonal piece especially prepared for the Spirit of Gravity Chris Cook on Sitar and laptop and Chris Parfitt on soprano sax struggled and one against a stubbornly crackly lead that meant Chris Cook had to sit stock still while playing (very hard with a sitar, even harder when you try to lean over to push keys on the laptop!). Playing sitar drones against circular breathed soprano drones conjured some beautiful moments, against which the pair of them pinpointed flurries of activity and bustle.

_minimalVector had managed to split the instruments so that each of them was interacting with different parts of the projected starfields (did I say how great it was to have visuals again? Caleb made us turn the lights right out).

nwodtleM

Extrapolating his handheld cassette tape cut-ups onto video Sean showed one of his new Jawa cut-ups. It started off with what looked like a Giallo cut up, that transmogrified into a brief version of the Schwarzennegger film “Total Recall” cut up to make beats and music and almost sense. He managed to keep the outline of the narrative as well as amuse and got it all in in under 20 minutes. Good work. More at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdLVfW4ydY&feature=user

Meat Dream

The return of Meat Dream after last years fabulous show, no electronic suits this time, I think the circuits had proved too fragile, although there was still plenty of home made gadgetry on display along with the old school tower computer and electronic drums.

They totally immerse themselves in their environment onstage, facing each other in the near dark with headphones on. They munge the output from the guitar and drums through the computer to create a total sonic environment. Part washes of distortion, part sonic metal crash, part waves of scarred beauty.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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