Next Spirit of Gravity gig: Tuesday 29 July

Spirit of Gravity presents

JILK & TULIN FEE / DAN POWELL AND GUS GARSIDE / THANOS CHRYSAKIS, OLI MAYNE & JAMES O’SULLIVAN

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

8.30-11pm, £4/£3 concs.

Jilk & Tulin Fée

Domestic folk-tronic ambience... with balls. Bristol based, but Midland born Jilk fuses a bewildering collage of homefound sounds with the ambient sound scapes of washy synths, insect-like clicks & cuts, and basslines to get any heads-a-bobbing. Frequently joined live with an Accompanying fairy-princess live electro/acoustic Violinist (The one and only Tulin-Fée), Jilk's live sound has developed in to a warm womb of something very special. The sound of Jellybabies in Tin-wellington boots at an arctic rave, you might say!?
Classical solo violin squares up to cut'n'paste-tronica. A formal, musical education clashing with the rebelion & freedom of modern electronic textures which form Echoes of Steve Reich, but in an undeniably unqiue form. As a frequenting guest of a certain Mr Jilk, our dear Tulin-Fée ("Tulin" like Tulip. "Fée" like "Fay" or, more specifically like the "Feh-" in "Ferry" - It's French for "Fairy"!) supplies a charmingly "plugged" injection of acoustic classical/folk to his soundscapes.

Dan Powell and Gus Garside

Dan Powell & Gus Garside. Duo improvisation featuring Spirit of Gravity collective member Dan Powell (laptop & small instruments) and Gus Garside (double bass) of In Sand and Arc.

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne, James O'Sullivan

Electro-acoustic free improvisation trio, featuring laptop, Roland SH101 synth and effects, and guitar and implements. Installation artist and composer Thanos Chrysakis, and Oli Mayne recently worked together with drummer Dario Bernal Villegas on the CD 'Palimpsesto', which was released on Aural Terrains label to a great response (including a substantial review in 'The Wire' magazine). They have also recorded a number of sessions with James O'Sullivan for an upcoming CD on the label. Individually the trio have worked with a host of other musicians in various genres, including Eddie Prevost (AMM), Adam Bohman, Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman, David Hurn, Brake Drum Assembly percussion quartet and others.
www.auralterrains.com
www.myspace.com/omvibraphone
www.myspace.com/fourseasonstelevision

Live interactive visuals by _minimalVector

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· Greetings:

Looking forward to this month’s Spirit of Gravity, Thanos Chrysakis and Oli Mayne (along with Dario Villegas) had their CD “Palimpsesto” well reviewed in The Wire recently, Dan Powell will bring along virtuoso improving bass player Gus Garside, and rounding things off nicely Jilk and Tulin Fée with violins and breaks from the same stable that brought us T-toe a couple of months back.

Stop Press

Same Actor is playing at the At Home by the Sea festival on Friday 8^th August, 6pm to 3am – billed as “A Summer Festival Made in Brighton”, it’s at the Concorde 2 – more details at www.athomebythesea.co.uk/

Also, please note the following at short notice (but not of an electronic or experimental nature):

Benefit gig for Brighton Pebbles - a group for children with special needs:
Heavy Load: the UK’s only disabled punk band

Plus Squadron Leaders and Not Dead Yet + DJ Aunty Morbid

Thursday 24^th July 8 to 12 pm

The Ocean Rooms, Brighton

£5 / £3 carers

www.myspace.com/brightonpebblesgroup

www.myspace.com/heavyloaduk

· Reviewings:

Spirit of Gravity at the Three and Ten, Brighton, Tuesday 24 June

Sneaking up to the mark at the last minute with no introduction or warning, Casio Headbutt obviously hasn’t grasped the concepts behind Junglism, playing with field recordings of a man sweeping a clearing underlaid with over-echoed lo-fi MT40 beats and ramblings and a little Sleng Teng to round things off.

The Vainglories

Against a background of shadowy trees and full moons, Gillian’s crystalline electronica struggled against the MacAliens when she tried to play a piano part and generally won it over. There was a brief interlude while she cracked jokes and the Mac restarted, but after that came back with a gloriously moody finale that scared me half to death.

Power Up

More returners Chris and Cathy Power played another set of blistering weirdness, stropping from indie electro power beats to harsh violin drones and lovely haunted glitch. A highlight was the Casio pipe organ on a song that appeared to be called “If you loved me you’d marry me” which managed to crank its beige self up to full church levels.

SAN Expo Brighton 2008 – various venues, 4 to 6 July

Was a weekend of amazing stuff, Friday had former SoG guests Brown Sierra and Halal Kebab Hut alongside saw draggers and a set of old films of Brighton. The daytime had soundart installations and some amazing acts live in the basement. Saturday night had Belgian wildman Ludo Milch destroying his violin and playing Theremin on his head and the Bowlide Awkwardstra amongst other Colour Out of Space stalwarts, and Sunday was just too much fun: The Safehouse Orchestra’s string trio from hell, Magnus Spectrum running around in an orange suit with a wii controller, Click Magnussons musical swearing, Dan Powell and Bartosz Dylewski’s audiovisual piece the Comet Project, and rounding things off nicely, a surprisingly mellow Spirit of Gravity Quartet with Chris Parfitt: space noises, bass drones and weirded sax. There was just too much to do and see.

Speaking of The Colour Out of Space they’re doing another festival the weekend 5^th September.

Yours as ever

El Maestro Con Queso

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