and in reverse order

Sometimes you just go with it.

I described Sunday Mourning as sounding like the middle of a triangle with Sonic Youth, Earth and Goblin at the corners.
Or at times maybe like Goblin played like 16rpm, this is one of those times.



Ryan Jordans set is almost beyond description: but not quite. Tightly controlled noise and strobe effects. Its your personal doorway to the Black Lodge.



Guas Garside and Dan Powell have played at The Spirit of Gravity a couple of time spreviously, nither was as good as this.
Almost rigorously formal in its construction this is spontaneous composition as it should be done.






Ahhh, and the Video -= sorry its a bit dark - but its All Good.


dan powell and gus garside sog nov 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos



Ryan Jordan sog November 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos



Sunday Mourning sog November 2009

The Spirit of Gravity | MySpace Music Videos

Slacking in space

With a minimal input from _minimalVector Bartosz takes it easy and enjoys Chris Cook and Dan Powells set.


Although he did have to work hard on the slide projectors - analogue style for The Vainglories.

This is "Crystalloid".



And then 4 big blokes in furry suits: MSG playing subtle dense bass music.






MSG Live at the Spirit of Gravity April 2009



The Vainglories live at SoG april 2009



Chris Cook and Dan Powell

video july

I've been a bit busy so haven't finished off everything for July yet, but we do have some video of teh amazing sets from Dan Powell and Gus Garside; plus Oli Mayne, Thanos Chrysakis and James O' Sullivan.

Unfortunately the advertised Jilke and Tulin Fee couldn't make it (part of a recurring dream).

So Anyway Oli and his crew:

Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan



Thanos Chrysakis, Oli Mayne James and O’Sullivan




Gus Garside and Dan Powell



Gus Garside and Dan Powell 2

embed with _minimalVector

Bartosz has been very busy.....


With Dan:


Powell/Dylewski "Elst-Pizzaro" 2008 from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.



Powell/Dylewski "Olbers" 2008 from Bartosz Dylewski on Vimeo.

With The vainglories.


The Vainglories "Chips and Cheese and JW" 2008




If you follow the links you can see the videos in glorious HDTV, it's well worth the effort.

Bells

We have a new host, tying things together and making up for the fact Rashamon is on holiday, electronica superstar and funnyman Lee Hume.

If you really want I'll put some of his introductions up, just so he gets a soundfile too.

Dan Powell started the evening with a set of electro-acoustic improvisations and new sound processing software. It was mad, like a kids toy train stealing a 1950's computer.
here's a track called Bells.
dan_powell-bells.mp3




Following dan was Made out of wool, an act with a special place in the heart of the Spirit of Gravity. After blasting us with a solo set as yellow not yellow at SoG@Wrong, this collaborative set between Jason and Nikki, was a much more subtle beast. The mp3 starts from the point I started hallucinating. Its a track called Bells.
made_out_of_wood-bells.mp3


They said it couldn't be done. "The Gross Consumer playing at Spirit of Gravity - you're having a laugh, it'll never work".
So proving two things, the broad tastes of The Spirit of Gravity, and the broader musical reaches of The Gross Consumer, we proved them wrong. We love it. Heres a track called Bells.

the_gross_consumer-bells.mp3

And thanks to steve at minimal impact we have a (large) download of the whole of The Gross Consumer set, including feeble attempts at justifying his actions in light of what was on the flyer (that is, it has all the banter).

Ghosts and Aliens

I've been told some people are having problems getting the files to play, if you are, try saving them to your machine and playing them from there.

We have a new camera, and a new Minidisk Recorder, so its all gone a bit art this week. The full size picture of Gus in particular is a rare treat, scary powerful stuff.





Gus plays Bass

Thor and Dan process it - a set of results are here.

minimal impact also process Gus and some of their results are here.



Chevron give us a break from strings and plays a silver keyboard, this should have been the first outing for Chevvers new laptop, instead it was (hopefully) the last outing for the old one, poor broken thing, I've never seen a laptop struggle so manfully.



Bela played her Cello and this her new Viol, we were hoping to have a lovely clear shot of it, its quite lovely to look at, oh well.


Bela also played the Saw, and sang, the saw isn't on our recording as we didn't mic it up, but as she was processing her voice we did capture that.