First release from my duo with long term collaborator Nick Dobson. Featuring 75 minutes of music drawn from a couple of days of sessions that took place on the edge of the snowy North Yorkshire moors in March of 2013 it captures the duo working with small sounds, textures and focused slow evolution of theContinue reading “Ramallah Mumtaz Power Duo”
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Noise Above Noise iii
Really looking forward to playing at the Penthouse this coming Thursday evening. Was in the space today figuring out how my newly developed stereo guitar set up will work in the corridor and was pretty excited to hear how the sound could be moved around the room physically and visually! Also performing on the nightContinue reading “Noise Above Noise iii”
27th March
Poster for next Tubers gig https://www.facebook.com/events/468462693259378/
Thai Rice Solos
Just put the finishing touches to this super small run of handmade books housing recordings I made in May of 2011 in Berlin with Richard Scott. 27 minutes of acoustic guitar music. The hard copies are enclosed in found hardback covers from Hotspur House and with an individual CCCP postcard as cover; all the letteringContinue reading “Thai Rice Solos”
DSDV live in Vienna
immense sounding video of the Desmadrados set from Vienna
New Tape
Duo tape with Rogier Smal recorded end of last year now available! £4 (get in touch for postage quote davidmbirchallatgmail.com) 32 minutes of music plus 3 colour risographed cover designed by Simon Fowler. http://rogiersmal.blogspot.co.uk/ http://www.cataract-operation.com/
Chastity Potatoe Summer Tour Comic!
Just what is needed in the depths of Winter to remind us of warmer times. First photographic evidence of the incredible tour comic that Susan made of our Chastity Potatoe/Joyce Whitchurch/Human Heads tour in Holland/Belgium/Germany in the Summer. This is a really insightful and oft hilarious slice of the life touring party. A new comicContinue reading “Chastity Potatoe Summer Tour Comic!”
Sounds from the Park
Details of the excellent radio documentary on Speakers Corner Kalbakken were commissioned to write a new tune for. It was based on the poem “Clever Tom Clinch” by Jonathan Swift and uses the tune of “Nottingham Town” as it’s departure point. Sunday 19th 6pm Resonance FM. Listen online anywhere in the world: http://resonancefm.com/listen If your radio isContinue reading “Sounds from the Park”
First Bandcamp Release
In the winter of 2002/2003 I lived in Leeds. I made a load of super primitive multi tracked tapes by bouncing recordings between two ghetto blasters and playing along with them. Everything I could get my hands on went on there; guitar, bass, vacuum cleaner, old records on tape loops, old records scratched up withContinue reading “First Bandcamp Release”
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