Bristol Sessions documents the very first, free improvised recording session of two idiosyncratic sonic explorers – Italian, Bristol-based percussionist Luigi Marino, who also employs DIY circuits, and Manchester-based banjoist who uses Ebows David Birchall, captured in Marino’s living room in March 2024.
Marino performs on electronic media and percussion, focusing on the zarb, the computer as an instrument mediating human decision-making, and custom-made cymbals played with bows and extended through DIY portable circuits. He has a duo with German clarinettist Michael Thieke and a trio with British sax master John Butcher and percussionist Mark Wastell.
Birchall is also a guitarist, graphic designer,
