Funbox House Party

An evening where I feel I should have been taking notes, Laboratoro combined Gallician poetry, dancing, drums, funny looking old electronics and field recordings.





Komuso skipped the field recordings this time, but did use i-phones. but not on this bit.



No electronics at all for Barking Toad but plenty of left field inclination. This is some of the more sensual side, to complement the skronkier side displayed in the video below.




Visuals as usual by Vache, some nice video of her at work on the Komuso video.

There is more video on the myspace site.

http://www.myspace.com/thespiritofgravity




Laboratoro live at The SPirit of Gravity Feb 2011

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos



Komuso Live at The Spirit of Gravity Feb 2011 (vache)

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos


Barking Toad Live at The Spirit of Gravity Feb 2011

The Spirit of Gravity | Myspace Music Videos

A journey through February sound

Starting with lots of space : reverbed pianos and field recordings and banging through to Hi density bangers.




Komuso, starting as a two piece , finishing as four had a musical journey of their own, and here is a bit of it.


Replaced by Gagarin, all on his ownsome, but making up for that with an increase in intensity and rhythm.



Heres some of his set with more rhythm and less tune that most, but I liked the clicky bits.




Then with a foot on the monitor and something of a bounce in the step, we rounded off with Urban Delights who unplugged my recorder so I have no mp3.

Still they are on myspace and I have some video below. . . .

Komuso Live at the Spirit of Gravity feb 2009


Komuso Live at the Spirit of Gravity feb 2009


Gagarin Live at the Spirit of Gravity. feb 2009. II



gagarin live at SoG feb2009


urban delights live at sog feb 2009

Sunsets and other September stuff

While the sun treated us to a lovely September treat we treated our ears.


Starting off the evening with a set of Buddha machine and Deer noises was Fallow. Creepy, Loud, quiet and blissful by turns.
Here's a quiet bit so you can hear the Buddha Machines.
The buddha and the beast




Continuing the run opf arriving late from the west country with no time to soundcheck we had Little Boat and his guitar (lovely old) amp and pedals.

This is a cover version, it kind of stops halfway through, but that doesn't matter.
cover version.



And rounding off the evening were the wonderful Power Up, violin, voice and various electronics I think this section has something of the variety of their set.
song from the middle

fabulous.

Outside the space-age

A busy night at the marlborough Theatre, starting off with a brief but entertaining burst of unpoesy analogue improv from that fake bureacracy. The picture has Notnick Rilke reclining and Untony's rather nice van's just visible from behind the table.

this_fake_bureaucracy-miro_face.mp3
Is their entire set.



Komuso Buddha machines had another special one off performance for us. This time a piece for six Buddha machines and two Zoundz. The Buddha machines were distributed amongst members of the audience who had complete control of them and there was one Zoundz machine onstage with FX and one Zoundz in the audience. Overall a very inetersting experience in 3d sound. Here rendered in Mono simulated stereo.

komuso_buddha_machines-zoundz.mp3

Hot Roddy Bingo. Really needs no description. But that won't stop me. Brief bursts of Hot Roddy songs, including live sitar. In random order, with bingo numbers called. The winner was Mr Gillitt of Roundhill Crescent who won the ingredients to make pancakes (it was shrove Tuesday after all).

Hot_Roddy_Bingo.mp3



KEYKEEPER+TEMPOS, Henry made an introductory speech about the nature of experimental music making and its current state. Then with some new software tweaked to strangeness, a toy guitar and some household appliances he sang a few songs There is a point on the recording where you can hear someone say "It's like Danny and the Dressmakers crossed with The Butthole Surfers in a washing machine...In space"
And thats a fair enough set of pointers if you know any of them concerend. For the rest of you its Outsider electro-noise art.

KEYKEEPER+TEMPOS_aubergine.mp3