Author Archives: davidmbirchall
Been doing some really great weekly playing online with Bathing Trio aka Schwimmbad Trio with Sam Andreae and Otto Willberg. This involves real time improvising but of course with whatever delay is afforded by the speed of our individual internet connections and physical distance for signal to be send by broadband. Its actually really quiteContinue reading
This was made in the second week of Covid19 lockdown at home in Stretford. I often record at home but in this case the whole family presence and interaction became a wider part of the recording environment. Alot of my research at Huddersfield touches on the subject of finding private public environments to play inContinue reading
https://heavypettingtime.bandcamp.com/album/squid-squid-dog-dog-sun-sun-goy We just released a new Historically Fucked album! It sees some nifty heavy phaser post production work from our rock bass player 83 on the live recording of the set we did at Tusk Festival in Gateshead in 2018.
3 tracks of solo material all based on walking in edgeland type places you know well and are familiar with. Flood Plain is about many walks in and around the River Mersey where I live in South Manchester; particularly watermeadows at Stretford Ees, Broad Ees Dole and Chorlton Ees. I love this connection to theContinue reading
New live album featuring download only David Birchall: guitar Fran Comyn: percussion THF Drenching: dictaphones/dog toys/percusssion/etc Adam Fairhall: accordian Michael Perrett: bass clarinet/alto sax Thanks to Mark Ellison for the live recording https://davidbirchall.bandcamp.com/album/deleted-scenes-from-the-peer-hat
