Sam Andreae / David Birchall / Otto Willberg

Sam Andreae / David Birchall / Otto Willberg

Sam Andreae – sax
David Birchall – guitar
Otto Willberg – double bass

The trio of Sam Andreae: saxophone, David Birchall: guitar & Otto Willberg: double bass began working together in Manchester in 2015. Now based between Berlin, London & Manchester the trio released their debut CD ‘Hair in the Chimney’ and toured in Japan in April 2017 where they working with Toshimaru Nakamura, Aya Ogawa, Deku Ogawa & Ryoko Ono amongst others. The spring of 2018 will see CD releases of live concerts from RentRec in Beppu and the trio plus Toshimaru Nakamura live at Ftarri in Tokyo.

Top-notch weirdo jams from the north of England. Featuring Sloth Racket’s Sam Andrae on saxophone, David Birchall on guitar, and Otto Willberg on double bass, Hair In The Chimney brings an underground sensibility to free improvisation, with the musicians using unconventional techniques to defamiliarise their instruments.

Stewart Smith in The Quietus 


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