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Hunters Moon Festival

Playing at this excellent looking festival over in Ireland in a couple of weeks with Andrew. New stuff being added to the bill all the time. http://huntersmoonfestival.com/

Spitting Feathers review from Foxy Digitalis

nice review here of recent cdr with Phil Marks and Olie Brice on Foxy Digitalis from Mike Pursley “On “Spitting Feathers” the talented trio of David Birchall (guitar), Olie Brice (double bass), and Phillip Marks (percussion) produce a clattersome tonal plinking evoking teeming machines con- and de-structing a stone and iron metropolis. These players bearContinue reading “Spitting Feathers review from Foxy Digitalis”

Acoustic Textures

Finished putting together the first bunch of the solo acoustic guitar CDr I’ve been working on for ages today! Comes inside a zine with a heavy sleeve with risograph print on front and back cover in teal, 4 pages inside with drawings, physical rubbings more than drawings but made with a pencil of the objectsContinue reading “Acoustic Textures”

Acoustic Textures

Beavering away in the studio today folding and stapling covers and the insides for a mini zine that will house the first physical solo release I’ve put together. It’s about 40 minutes of acoustic guitar and objects recorded at the end of 2010. The zine contains drawings of the stuff used to make the sounds.Continue reading “Acoustic Textures”

Acoustic guitar vids

Chastity Potatoe

Some great fun playing and filming with Mr Poot today and yesterday. We will be out on tour in July with the splendid Acrid Lactations so keep an eye out! http://soundcloud.com/davidmbirchall/chastity-potato-slice-of

Clay Action

Animation we made using models from workshop I did with Pascal at newly launched Z Arts Centre in Hulme the other day. Soundtrack from Open Eye Duo.

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.

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”

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’.