Smallhaus is David Little, a South-East London based composer, guitarist and electronic music producer.
About
Smallhaus is an evolving experimental music project, started by David in 2015 after a number of years away from making music. Starting as a way to explore sound and music making outside of a traditional band format, initial experiments concentrated on manipulating found sounds and field recordings, alongside guitar and electronics. The sound developed to incorporate life-long influences from psychedelia, shoegaze and post-rock, along with electronica and ambient music.
Musical reference points include Neu, Amp, Flying Saucer Attack, Windy and Carl, Eno’s 70 Ambient series, Labradford, Grouper and Tortoise.
The first Smallhaus album, Unweather, combined early experiments to create an evolving two-part sound collage – self-released on cassette and download in early 2017. The EP Six followed soon after, featuring six tracks with all sounds being made on electric guitar and then processed. The second “proper” album, Lutra, was released by Linear Obsessional records in summer 2018. Tracks from lutra have been played on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music, Resonance FM and NTS.
Doubt / The Magnetic North, the third and fourth albums were released as a double by Bad Bat Records in April 2020.
Smallhaus releases are available on Bandcamp, Spotify and a number of other streaming services.
News
Zetland EP
Announcing a new EP: Zetland available to download from Bandcamp and stream from all major streaming sites. Zetland was born from a couple of abandoned projects. The first was around ambient remixes of previous releases and the second two extended improvisations made on electric guitar and gong. The first never happened but left me wanting …
Doubt / The Magnetic North
I’m delighted to announce my new album, Doubt / The Magnetic North has now been released on Bad Bat Records. It’s also available to stream on Spotify and other streaming services. Full details Doubt and The Magnetic North are the third and fourth studio albums from Smallhaus – now released together as a double album …
Psonification
I’ve just released a new CD-R/ digital download: Psonification – a 38 minute psychedelic sound bath. It features a version of an improvised track I’ve been playing at gigs over the summer plus some live and processed recordings of a 32” symphonic Gong, along with some other spacey electronic goings on. I wanted to work …