Gravid Hands Presents:

Leverton Fox Album Release Show

Featuring:

Leverton Fox
Charles Hayward's Albert Newton
Rocketnumbernine

*£5 advanced tickets and press list available.
Please contact us via e: gravidlist@gmail.com <mailto:gravidlist@gmail.com> (1 place available per email).

Pre-release copies of Leverton Fox’s album (due for release through Gravid Hands in May) will be available at a reduced price, along with t-shirts and other merchandise.

Leverton Fox: 
 
Live electronics/percussion trio featuring members from the London-based Jazz 'loop collective'. Alex Bonney (electronics, trumpet) also plays in Plummer’s World Sanguine Report, and leads a quartet exploring the music of Albert Ayler. Tim Giles (drums)’s other projects include the 'BBC innovation award'-winning Fraud, Golden Age of Steam, and Koby Israelite (signed to tzadik). Matt Groom (electronics, guitars) has been staging experimental music and avant-garde film concerts at arts festivals for many years. His background in filmmaking is evident in the band’s distinctive projections at live performances. The group's use of live trumpet and drums alongside field recordings and electronically-generated and processed sounds is by turns meditative and abrasive. Plaintive melodies and subtle timbres are buried beneath layers of chugging electronics and skittering percussion, emerging occasionally like buds forcing through tarmac. The music exudes a tension between pastoral and urban; acoustic and electronic, which is a source of endless sonic invention and variety. 

http://www.myspace.com/levertonfox
 
Charles Hayward's Albert Newton: 
 
Four extreme and imaginative musicians in a joyous celebration of creative telepathy building music beyond breakbeat quantum funk. Relentless, shifting drum rhythms (Charles Hayward), driving double bass (Jon Edwards), trumpet (Harry Beckett) and keyboards (Pat Thomas) in an intense, spiralling improv. Charles Hayward leads his band through a multitude of spontaneous time changes and tempos as they hammer out severely-twisted dance grooves, left-field jazz figures and demented electronic timbres. (Featuring members of This Heat, Gong & Elvis Costello Band.)

www.myspace.com/charleshayward 
 
Rocketnumbernine: 
 
Synth and drum duo dispensing blistering but hypnotic workouts, with influences from Krautrock and Warp-style electronica to Free Jazz. The level of interaction between brothers Tom and Ben Page approaches near-psychic levels as they shift pace from abstract washing synth tones and tumbling, fluid rhythms to gut-wrenching square waves and phrenetic grooves. (Featuring members of Rothko.)

www.myspace.com/rocketnumbernine