2 gigs, a track and 2 reviews

We have a fiveway of news nuggets for your ingestion.

We have been confirmed to play the wonderful Supernormal Festival, doing live soundtracks to a film, we’re part of the “Bang The Bore” corner, which is a super headache full of crazy stuff. Get your fill & buy tickets for the whole weekend here: http://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/bang-the-bore-presents/

We have a track released on a great new compilation entitled “here” released by “Bang The Bore” (spot the theme yet) which is a packed 2-cds full of 21 responses to the locale of the performer – housed in a lovely booklet with pictures and words from all involved. As well as us it features Gary Busdriver, Seth Cooke, Hákarl, joinedbywire, Daniel Alexander Hignell, clive henry, Daniel Spicer, Noteherder & McCloud as well as many others. Every entry comes with longitude and latitude co-ordinates so you can stalk your favourites acts as well. Highly highly recommended.
Buy it here: http://www.bangthebore.org/archives/3340

Our tape “A Duty To The Dead” got reviewed in Wire Magazine this month. They said:
“A Brighton duo with roots in A Band, The Zero Map make something quite a bit less clattery than all that. The basic thrust is created (it would seem) by long feedback guitar tones, which are interlaced with cosmic whooshery and echoey machine sounds. Sounds totally crummy, but in a great way.”

A review from Radio Free Midwich. Read it all here (too long to be pasted here)http://radiofreemidwich.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/artifacts-of-the-no-audience-underground-the-zero-map-live-spirit-of-gravity-2011/:

And finally we are playing a small gig at the monthly night “Horseplay” at the Black Dove in Kemp Town on the 31st May. Also playing that night, should be, Dylan Nyoukis, Daniel Spicer and Verity Spot with Duncan Harrison. The night is free so you have no excuse.

LIVE CD

We have just released a live 3″ cd, recorded at Spirit Of Gravity at the Komedia last year, it is a gorgeous 21 minute meditation, available from us for a mere £4, plus p&p.
Email at sarcasticmuffin [at] hotmail [dot] com

You can hear an excerpt chosen by the spirit of gravity team here:

Peace

T.Z.M.
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AMNERTIAC ENERGY SURGE FESTIVAL

We are playing at the crazily titled “AMNERTIAC ENERGY SURGE FESTIVAL” on Saturday 31st March 2012 at Power Lunches 446 Kingsland Road, E84AA London, United Kingdom. Here are full details:

Transient Constellations presents:

AMNERTIAC ENERGY SURGE FESTIVAL

Experimental / Improv / Noise from 4.00pm till late
featuring:

Gum Takes Tooth
Sly & The Family Drone
Gymnastic Decomposition
Mothers Of The Third Reich
Black Branches
The Zero Map
FMG
Shugoran
Miles And Miles And Miles
+ DJs till late

Doors 4pm

£7 / £5 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/158175

Giig

We are playing a gig at The Infernal Salon, upstairs at the Caroline O Brunswick near the Level in Brighton, on Sunday 15th January 2012, sometime between 4 and 9 in the evening. Visuals and noise expected.
Also playing are NIL, aFRAYED KNOTT & Adam Lygo.

In Decemeber a tape sneaked it’s way out of Manchester’s Golden Lab Records – A Duty To The Dead is 35 minutes of mayhem including studio compositions, studio jams and live outtings going from serene to (I quote) “face-shredding” – and here’s a video for the track “Sea Life” which opens side 2:

In January we celebrated having our mascot Bettie Cat for 2 years, and so we had a massive jam (fuelled in part by newly acquired Hendrick’s Gin) and as such shall be self releasing a cdr entitled “Bettie’s Birthday Album” somewhere soon. So stayed tuned, you have been warned.

A clip from our Spirit Of Gravity gig

Thanks to Geoff for this, and stay tuned for at some point the whole recording available.

See more Spirit Of Gravity clips here:
http://soundcloud.com/the-spirit-of-gravity/

Sonic Oyster Records 50

Sonic Oyster has reached their 50th release, and to honour it they have put together a massive 17 track compilation featuring curios and odds from a number of Sonic Oyster associated artists, of which we are one. Tracks by Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine, Alistair Crosbie, Buddha on the Moon, The Zero Map, Susan Matthews, Bolide, Astral Social Club, Will Klingenmeier (Soliloquy Sun), Sindre, Andrew Paine (US), Matthew Shaw, Book of Shadows, Brian Lavelle, Richard Youngs, Smoke Jaguar, Andrew Paine (UK) and Clutter.

You can order them and check out more information from Sonic Oyster here: http://sonicoysterrecords.blogspot.com/2011/10/sor50.html but be quick because they’re likely to sell out pronto.

We will have a limited number of copies, but they’ll probably disappear double-pronto.