David Fenech

David Fenech
Background information
Born	19 July 1969 (1969-07-19) (age 42)
Origin	Saint-Cloud, France
Genres	free jazz improvised electronic music
Occupations	composer
Instruments	electric guitar
Years active	1993 – present
Labels	Demosaurus, Inpolysons, Optical Sound, Signature, FBWL, Ubik, Ronda
Website	http://davidfenech.fr
Notable instruments
guitar, voice, ukulele

David Fenech is a French composer, guitarist and singer born on 19 July 1969 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine.

Biography

David Fenech had a guitar for his tenth birthday and never ceased making music since then. Between 1990 and 1995, he was very active on the mail art network and published tracks on various tape and CD compilations. In 1991, he led the Peu Importe collective in Grenoble. This band played improvised music and punk rock in a spirit close to bands like The Ex or Pere Ubu.

David Fenech released his first solo CD in 2000 on the Tout L'Univers label, and then a duet with Moka. His second album called Polochon Battle was released by inPolysons, a French label.

He also plays improvisation on electric guitar with musicians such as Gino Robair, Tom Cora, Jac Berrocal, Andrea Parkins. He's also playing duets with musicians like Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Ergo Phizmiz, Klimperei, James Plotkin (khanate), Shugo Tokumaru, Ramona Cordova, Mr Quark, Toog, Dragibus, Ghédalia Tazartès, etc. He has also worked as a software developer at IRCAM

His label Demosaurus has published several cds (Ghédalia Tazartès et Frank Pahl).

In 2009, he started to play in a trio with Jac Berrocal and Ghédalia Tazartès

Selected discography

Solo

• 2007 Polochon Battle – CD, Inpolysons
• 2000 Grand Huit – CD, Tout L'Univers.

Compilations

• 2008, Documents – CD, Trace (with Pierre-Yves Macé, Jean-François Pauvros, Hervé Zénouda).
• 2007 Cagesan – CD, Beau Brun (with Felix Kubin, Momus, toog, montag, digiki, o.lamm, james harvey).
• 2006 Next to Nothing – CD, Optical Sound (with scanner, norcsq, simon fisher turner, versari, Ramuntcho Matta, palo alto).
• 2006 Tribute to Moondog – CD, Trace Label (with joseph racaille, mami chan, konki duet, Jean-Jacques Birgé)
• 2001 La Musique du Jouet – CD, Novel Cell Poem (with Pascal Comelade, mami chan, dragibus, harpy, klimperei , frank pahl)
• 1999 Strings and Stings – CD, FBWL (with Thurston Moore, ultra milkmaids, noel akchote , Loren Mazzacane Connors)

With Moka

• 2000 Les vaches – vinyl, Romulus Et Remus

With Peu Importe

• 1996 Discotroma 1 – CD, Le Dernier Cri
• 1996 Discotroma 2 – CD, Le Dernier Cri

With Jac Berrocal and Ghédalia Tazartès

• 2011, Superdisque, CD , LP, Sub Rosa

External links

• Official website
• David Fenech on Myspace
• http://davidfenech.blogspot.com

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Name	Fenech, David
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Date of birth	19 July 1969
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