Last Field in Lancashire

by David Birchall & Richard Harrison

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If your walking south west on Hawthorn Lane from Chorlton Cum Hardy towards Stretford and don't want to cross the Mersey on the old Roman Road, just before the tram lines cross the lane, swing left over a half buried cylindrical pipe, slide off the other side, watch for pieces of glass and the brambles, follow the short track down to the gultch cross it keeping the tramlines on your right and immediately take the left through the gate propped open into the field.

Note the small collection of stones that made up the old bridge over the gultch and the two sets of earthworks part of a victorian dyke and sluice system for the Mersey Valley flood plain. Bobby used to crawl under those stones when it was the actual bridge still when he was a kid. Here the paths both lead to the river following the tops of the earth works the one straight and to the right towards Barfoot Bridge and Sale. This is now the last field in as was Lancashire walking south once you cross Barfoot the southern bank is Cheshire as was.

But you take the first path following the ridge awhile, then veering off right and then left down a gentle incline to shelter in front of a small copse of trees growing in a winter flood dip now a fine windbreak in the summer. You crouch here a while and watch the horizon, the summer sun casting the trees on the far side of the river starkly in shadows, sounds are zoning in from afar and the reedy grass under your hands and feet sounds close damp brittle.

David Birchall: sampler, pickup, amp, spring, voice, branches


On the way to the first session I noticed Dave was travelling light, “where’s your guitar?” Thinking maybe acoustic or banjo, no strings. We set backed by a curtain of Alders in a grassy dip. We became the replacement wildlife for a while scratching scurrying scraping testing keeping to our little sound world as the Blackbird was in his. The distant curtain of noise on the M60, the tram coming and going over the Mersey, a rare aeroplane enthuse covid times, couples and groups treading paths to somewhere, the outer backdrop.

Richard Harrison: hub cap, bowed flexatone, brass bowl , frame drum fidget spinner, scalp scratchers, ocarina, acorns, bicycle, voice


Recordings made July/August 2020 Stretford Meadows, England

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released November 6, 2020

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David Birchall Manchester, UK

I am a musician living in Manchester.

I improvise, compose recordings in the studio and perform recordings outside.

I work with electronics, light, sound and making internet structures accessible with Noise Orchestra.

I'm an MA Researcher at the University of Huddersfield.

I organise performances with Curious Ear and Daylight Edition. ... more

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