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, 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.
Smallhaus releases are available on Bandcamp, Spotify and a number of other streaming services.
News
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 …
Champion Version Edition 6 at Iklecktic
I’m really excited to announce that I’ve been invited to play at Champion Version Edition 6 event at Iklecktic on 1 August – celebrating 10 years of Champion Version. Champion Version is a wonderful London-based label who specialise in creating limited lathe-cut vinyl and digital releases. Buy tickets for Champion Version 6 – Iklecktic 1 …
Gigs in May
I’m excited to be playing at two gigs in May: 02 May – Vanishing Point, the Ivy House, Nunhead 09 May – Dronica, St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington