Tag Archives: David Birchall

Terrascope Reviews

Reviews of the solo Acoustic Textures and Spitting Feathers CDrs on Black and White Cat Press from Terrascope. “Using a selection of found objects and an acoustic guitar, David Birchall has created an intriguing and listen-able improvisation on his latest album “Acoustic Textures”. Containing seven tracks, the album serves up a wide range of moods asContinue reading “Terrascope Reviews”

JBH

Dave Jackson has posted a recording from some of the regular sessions that happened at The Milkroom. It’s a smaller group featuring him on sax, Richard Harrison on percussion and myself on guitar. These were really fun sessions with a rotating cast of Manchester players week by week. http://davejackson.bandcamp.com/album/jbh-7-12-2010

Some new reviews

New reviews in French & English of BBM and solo CDrs from Monsieur Delire over in Canada: BIRCHALL/BRICE/MARKS TRIO / Spitting Feathers (Black & White Cat Press) Une nouvelle micro étiquette qui publie des CDr. Les deux premières publications mettent en vedette le guitariste David Birchall. D’abord à la guitare électrique, en trio avec OlieContinue reading “Some new reviews”

next weekend

Is going to be a really busy one, two really exciting performances and a bookfair! Exhibiting zines/records/cds and my new zine of birdsong drawings on Friday 12th & Saturday 13th at Manchester Artists Bookfair. Then making music for the performance/installation ‘The Dreaming’ with Bekke Platt and Aliyah Hussain on the Saturday @ 2pm as partContinue reading “next weekend”

Cymatic experiments

Been working today on making some films showing some of the methods I’ve used recently to make sound visible; technically speaking I’ve discovered this is cymatics. I became interested in it a few years ago when I inherited a broken marshall 1x 12 combo the speaker of which worked but the amp part was broken,Continue reading “Cymatic experiments”

Vital Weekly Review of Acoustic Textures

“On his solo CD Birchall plays acoustic guitar with objects on the strings. The objects are also shown, as drawings, in the enclosed booklet. All of this was recorded straight to tape, although I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a variety of microphones have been used here. Sometimes it sounds close by and sometimesContinue reading “Vital Weekly Review of Acoustic Textures”

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”