Still recovering from the great time I had in Berlin end of last week and beginning of this. Picture above kindly taken by David Armes from Sowieso gig with Klaus Janek and Anat Cohavi. When I was there I did a whole bunch of solo recording (as well as duos) with Richard Scott in hisContinue reading “some Berlin thoughts”
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Monks Advice
As transcribed by Steve Lacy. Was on the wall in Richard Scott’s studio where we were recording last few days. Thought alot of it was still rather relevant.
4th May poster
Another Tipping Point Review
Thanks to ATTN: Magazine for this one Andrew & I are improvising with a film at this event on sunday “When homing in on the minute details of Tipping Point– the sounds and mutations that occur second by second – David Birchall (guitar) and Andrew Cheetham (drums) appear to have a very warped, jittery relationship.Continue reading “Another Tipping Point Review”
Next Tubers 4th May NHAM Quartet & others
4 May Nham Quartet (Tony Bevan/John Edwards/Jed Bishop/Michael Zerang) “Brilliant stuff!” The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (U.K.) “Spirited, challenging free improvisation. Do yourself a favour and check them out” Jason Bevins, Cadence (U.S.A.) “Imaginative and very satisfying” The Wire (U.K.) “Strongly recommended to fans of intelligent, freethinking musicmaking” Coda (Canada) The NHAM QuartetContinue reading “Next Tubers 4th May NHAM Quartet & others”
Six Memos Manchester
Here’s the final cut of the film (in Italian) Daniele Ledda has been making over the last year or so featuring a bunch of Manchester improvisers and our interpretations of different essays in Italo Calvino ‘Six Memos for the next Millennium’.
new Kalbakken tune
Played a couple of dates this weekend with the splendid Last Harbour, clip above captured by Mike from the Glossop gig.
Touching Extremes review of “Spitting Feathers”
Guitarist David Birchall, double bassist Olie Brice and percussionist Phillip Marks recorded these seven improvised tracks in Manchester, October 2011. The interplay is distinguished by a fair degree of concentration in large quantities of succeeding events: no room for lingering silences here, though one clearly detects the attention with which the players listen to eachContinue reading “Touching Extremes review of “Spitting Feathers””
Birchall/Brice/Marks clip
http://vimeo.com/39256464 Thanks to Insa for this!
23rd March Jon Mueller + Belied Guaniko + Kendrick/Birchall/Cheetham
really looking forward to this gig! info here on tubers blog and here on facebook great video from Jon here
David Birchall 