dave phillips/dp – humanimalism, psycho-acoustics, composition, voice, body, organics, field recordings, hardcore, metal, DIY
dp re/searches and ponders existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically via sonic de/construction, psycho-acoustics and challenging social/human boundaries since 1984. sound as a means to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden by civilised experience, and a catalyst for pursuing engagement, change, insinuating awareness, meaning, tuning senses and delivering some form of release, a release that is liberating & purifying, a polemical catharsis that opposes the omnipresent reduction of existence, a ritual that desires to cast aside artificial, material and superstitious arrangements and constraints and puts us in touch with our sentient origins as much as with realities of the times we live in.
dp has been sonically active for over 25 years, has appeared on more than 170 releases and has played near to 400 concerts in 37 countries.
in 1987 dp co-founds hardcore-extremists fear of god whose existence is short and intense. subsequently continuing solo leads to experiments with the voice, an interest in body and concrete sounds, field recordings and the still prevalent search for experiences and phenomena that test and cross borders, habits, inhibitions and rules.
working for recrec (zürich label and distributor of independant music) in the late 80′s dp gets to know rudolf eb.er (founder of schimpfluch, runzelstirn & gurgelstøck) and joke lanz (sudden infant) whose ideas and approaches prove to be of similar inclinations. common ground is quickly established and pursued. this loose constellation is also known as ‘schimpfluch-gruppe’ or ‘schimpfluch-commune int.’ and amongst others includes marc zeier (g*park) and daniel löwenbrück (raionbashi).
love for the sonorous, compositional and mind-altering qualities of sentients such as insects or amphibians and natural elements like wind and water deepens through a trip to southeastasia’s wilderness in 1994.
in 1997 an injury that damages dp’s back for life leads to workaholism at intensified levels.
with tom smith (to live and shave in l.a.), daniel löwenbrück (raionbashi, tochnit aleph label) and reto mäder (rm74, hinterzimmer label) OHNE is established in 2000, forcing 4 distinctive characters to constant tumult and some outputs.
dead peni is a solo-project initiated in 2004 using electric bass, a drum-machine, voice and backing tapes. the peni bows not only to rudimentary peni but also to the lifelong companions of dp’s musical world that might or might not be labelled metal and punk.
dp was born in zug, switzerland in 1969 to and english father and a french mother; he lives and works in zürich.
dp has had the honour to perform & record with:
rudolf eb.er, daniel löwenbrück, tom smith, reto mäder, francisco meirino, antoine chessex, christian weber, masonna, randy h.y. yau, scott arford, john wiese, kid commando, the new blockaders, leticia castaneda, tomasz twardawa, neil campbell, eric boros, stephen thomas, joke lanz, monno, lucas abela, mario löffel, mike reber, cornelia hesse-honegger, phil vane
to have stuff released by the fine folks at:
schimpfluch, tochnit aleph, blossoming noise, the egg and we, little enjoyer, ideal, scrotum recordings, scrotum productions, mego, ignominious, temple of love, off the disk, iem, pale mother, entr’acte, groundfault, digitally destroyed daffodil discs, a.marsch, chi.pflug, maimed by love, lady godiva, absurd, recordings for the summer, soi tapes, eu 91, nihilist, auscultare, manufracture, das schöne blumen musik werk, japan overseas, dual plover, gmbh, pure, chocolate monk, beniffer editions, gameboy, erratum, zelphabet, megawimp, far out, atrocious, anomie, two sheds, gmbh, cipher productions, radical matters, syrphe, anarchymoon, alku, liquid architecture, old europa café, radia, swamp of pus, vinyl on demand, wire magazine, even stilte, musica excentrica, 90% wasser, avanto, authorised version, stinky horse fuck, meeuw, tedium house, burping turds,
is guilty of hypocrisy by adding to the pollution problem through traveling to play live in:
switzerland, germany, austria, france, italy, belgium, netherlands, england, denmark, norway, finland, lithuania, latvia, poland, czech republic, slovakia, slovenia, russia, republic of belarus, romania, canada, usa, australia, new zealand, hong kong, singapore, taiwan, japan, south korea, greece, israel, mexico, colombia, ecuador, peru, chile, argentina, brasil
and at these festivals:
luff lausanne, avanto helsinki, liquid architecture sydney, ccc bern, observatori valencia, ieperfest ieper, beyond music los angeles, new music for a final mess san francisco, crashcourse berlin, harbinger soundclash vol. 1 london, termite club leeds, kokeko paris, overgaden sound art copenhagen, opdrift/drifting mankind enschede, no fun fest new york, nojzfest ljubljana, avmotional bukarest, musica genera sczcecin, liquid architecture melbourne, alt music auckland, biennale athens, triebjagd bern, theremin moscow, primate arena tel aviv, ertz bera, neon marshmallow chicago, colour out of space brighton, cocart torun, altera napoli, asim’tria cusco, saint ghetto bern