I was born in Leicester and started playing the guitar there in 1995. I moved to Manchester in 1999 and still live here.

As a musician I'm interested in composing forms to improvise within and improvising without forms using the guitar. I am interested in exploring that instruments total tonal possibilities through tunings, intergration of melodic and abstract sounds and preparations.

On rare occasions I work as a promoter of gigs always operating in a DIY manner. 

Dave Jackson has played experimental/free improvised music/noise for over 20 years with the likes of Solar Fire Trio, Eddie Prevost, Chris Corsano, Assif Tsahar, Dirk Serries, Richard Hemmings, Graham Clark, Carlos Zingaro, Jeffrey Morgan, Steve Belger, Phil Marks, Jooklo Duo, Olie Brice, Fonik, Warrington Improvised Music Collective, Psychiatric Challenge, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Russell, Paul Rutherford, Frakture Big Band, Noise Upstairs, THF Drenching, Brian Benson, Nick Mitchell, Beach Fuzz, Motion Detectors, Barry Dean, Open Eye Ensemble, Kelley Jones, Pascal Nichols, Dave Birchall, Richard Harrison, Andy Gill, John Scott, Danny Saul, Paralysis, Withoutlaw, Sannyasin, WMD Sax Trio, NOW Sextet, Roadside Picnic, Metzengerstein, Echo Hazard, Evil Dick, Buddha Shakya, Tilak Magar, Mara Bhaja and a whole load of other folks...

plays saxophones and clarinets, guitars, electronic devices
Discography -
Solo Saxophone 2013 - http://davejackson.bandcamp.com/album/solo-saxophone-2013
              
Solar Fire Trio - 
Solar Fire Trio (2006)
 Rise Up (2007)
 Hand To Mouth (2008)
 The Adjacent Sector (compilation) (2008)
 Feral Debris (compilation) (2007)
 
with Frakture Big Band -
 Funfzehn (2005)
 Cornerstone (2005)
 Live at The Picton Reading Rooms (2006)
 
with Beach Fuzz -
 Nosferatu Hex (2009)
 
with Psychiatric Challenge -
 Northern Silence (2004)
 Northern Solar Noise (2007)
 It;s Just Noise (with Lol Coxhill) (2007)
 Four Plus Five (2006)
 Why do We Talk ? (2006)
 Provocation Of Sound (2007)
 Concerto for White Goods and Electronics (2008)
 Fobefusa (2008)
 Hmmmmmm (2008)
 
with Fonik - 
A Burning Watercolour (2009)
 
Sannyasin - 
Muladhara (2008)
 Scope (2009)

check my bandcamp page for more stuff -  http://davejackson.bandcamp.com/
 
I've also done rcording, editing and mastering for Part Wild Horses Manes On Both Sides, Gnod, A Middle Sex, Irma Vep, Beach Fuzz, Golden Labs Records, Rayon Records, Queens Ark Recordings and a bunch of other disparate characters.. if you're interested in mastering, get in touch

Reviews
"Dave Jackson free-squeeks the alto sax into Patty Waters/Yoko Ono’s attic.... - Julian Cope

 "classic squee-pileage in the post-ESP tradition..... loose sonic collisions and and interwoven blather in ripely extended fire-form, all revolving around theories of meat and its ability to burn. Solid, savage blurt." - Thurston Moore - Arthur Magazine 

"nice freak register tangling" - Byron Coley

 It’s almost more than I can bear and words never took me here. I am drunk. Pissed through the ears as it were, inebriated on a chaos symphony, tripping on an acid-fuelled maelstrom of impeccably blown hellishness and thrown into the comfortably familiar zone of sweet oblivion. Why does this beautiful f***ing mess make me want to cry so hard? The world is a different place. I am dust." Damo Kawasaki - Plan B Magazine 

“Incendiary free jazz blast.... with live talent like this on your doorstep, there’s no need to hunt down obscure Peter Brötzmann or ESP-Disk records from the 1960’s” – Alan Haselden

 "Ornette meets Iggy" - Freenoise

Aram Shelton is an improviser and composer who performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics. He plays with a distinct, harmonically rich sound and develops musical thoughts through constant motion, tonal shifts and complex sounds alongside clear melodic and rhythmic constructs. His vocabulary utilizes the range of extended techniques including multiphonics and harmonics, circular breathing, wind sounds and an exploration of the outer ranges of the instrument. Shelton focuses on creative music grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation; his writing and playing has been documented through more than two dozen albums to date. He's been an integral member of the creative music communities in the Bay Area and Chicago, and is currently waiting things out in the E.U.

<a href="http://www.johnnyhuntermusic.com">Johnny Hunter</a> - Jazz/Avant Garde/Reggae drummer based in the north of England.

Johnny Hunter Quartet - exploring the freedoms and challenges of having no harmony instrument.

Blind Monk Trio - heavy root Jazz from Liverpool.

Skamel - 6-piece Ska/Jazz/Dub group originally set up to explore the music of French Ska outfit, Raspigaous.

Marley Chingus - heavy modal Jazz from Liverpool.

Dub Jazz Soundsystem - a mash-up of heavy Dub and psychedelic modal Jazz.

Improvising saxophone and clarinet based in Liverpool, UK

The Evil Usses
Bloom Collective
Bristol UK

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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