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

Saint-Cloud

Saint-Cloud is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.Like other communes of the Hauts-de-Seine such as Marnes-la-Coquette, Neuilly-sur-Seine or Vaucresson, Saint-Cloud is one of the wealthiest cities in France, ranked 22nd out of the 36500 in...

, 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

Mail art

Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art...

 network and published tracks on various tape and CD compilations. In 1991, he led the Peu Importe collective in Grenoble

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

. This band played improvised music and punk rock in a spirit close to bands like The Ex or Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu is an experimental rock music group from Cleveland, Ohio.Père Ubu may also refer to:* Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné...

.

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

Gino Robair

Gino Robair is an American composer, improvisor, drummer, and percussionist. In his own work , he plays prepared/modified percussion, analog synthesizer, ebow and prepared piano, theremin, and bowed objects...

, Tom Cora

Tom Cora

Thomas Henry Corra , better known as Tom Cora, was a United States cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock...

, Jac Berrocal

Jac Berrocal

Jacques "Jac" Berrocal is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson...

, Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins

Andrea Parkins is an American composer, sound artist, performer and improviser.Andrea Parkins has improvised with musicians such as Nels Cline, Jim Black, Ellery Eskelin, Guenter Muller, David Watson, David Fenech, etc.- External links :* *...

. He's also playing duets with musicians like Felix Kubin

Felix Kubin

Felix Kubin is an electronic musician. He has been involved with music since he was 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ and glockenspiel. His youthful experiments really took off in 1980 when he got a Korg MS-20 synthesizer. His early works have been released under the title The Tetchy...

, Jad Fair

Jad Fair

Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...

, Ergo Phizmiz, Klimperei, James Plotkin

James Plotkin

James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD, but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn...

 (khanate), Shugo Tokumaru

Shugo Tokumaru

is a Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who debuted in May 2004 in America with his album Night Piece. He creates every aspect of his music, including the lyrics, music, arrangements, recording and mixing. He is known for the variety of instruments he uses in his music, using...

, Ramona Cordova, Mr Quark, Toog, Dragibus, Ghédalia Tazartès, etc. He has also worked as a software developer at IRCAM

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

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

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

Jac Berrocal

Jacques "Jac" Berrocal is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson...

 and Ghédalia Tazartès

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
  Felix Kubin
  Felix Kubin is an electronic musician. He has been involved with music since he was 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ and glockenspiel. His youthful experiments really took off in 1980 when he got a Korg MS-20 synthesizer. His early works have been released under the title The Tetchy...
  
  , Momus
  Momus (artist)
  Nick Currie , more popularly known under the artist name Momus , is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired...
  
  , toog, montag
  Antoine Bédard
  Antoine Bédard is a Canadian electronic musician, best known for his recordings under the stage name Montag.Originally from Montreal, he sings in both French and English, and is currently residing in Montreal again, after a stint in Vancouver, British Columbia...
  
  , digiki, o.lamm, james harvey).
• 2006 Next to Nothing – CD, Optical Sound (with scanner
  Scanner
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  , 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
  Jean-Jacques Birgé
  Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer , film director , multimedia author , sound designer Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer (co-founder of Un Drame Musical Instantané which with he records...
  
  )
• 2001 La Musique du Jouet – CD, Novel Cell Poem (with Pascal Comelade
  Pascal Comelade
  Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade , is a French Catalan musician.Comelade born was in Montpellier, France. After living for several years in Barcelona, he made his first album, Fluences, influenced by electronic music and by the group Heldon.Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is...
  
  , mami chan, dragibus, harpy, klimperei , frank pahl)
• 1999 Strings and Stings – CD, FBWL (with Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
  , ultra milkmaids, noel akchote , Loren Mazzacane Connors
  Loren Mazzacane Connors
  Loren MazzaCane Connors is an American experimental musician who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors...
  
  )

With Peu Importe

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

External links

• http://davidfenech.blogspot.com