David Jackson

Musician, composer and saxophonist for Van der Graaf Generator, David Jackson is an inspiration. He has worked right across the musical spectrum, with artists including Peter Gabriel, Keith Tippett and Howard Moody. Today he is primarily concerned with using technology to enable severely disabled people to make music - ideally music for performance. In great demand both in the UK and overseas, for workshops for anything upwards of 100 players, David combines his expertise in conventional music and instruments (he collects handbells and unusual ethnic percussion) with his understanding of technology. Where a solution does not exist, he innovates - creating, for example, the Jellybean Eye and Echo Mirrors, to bring music within the grasp of individuals of all abilities. His passion for music, and the joy of helping others participate, is obvious. Christened by The Guardian ‘Soundbeam Guru’, David has been featured on the Radio and TV, appearing on Tomorrow's World. He is also an inspired Soundbeam trainer, system designer and builder. David Jackson is an acclaimed composer:- music for Van der Graaf Generator and 5 solo albums; an inspirational community musician:- “Beam Machine - Star Messenger 2989”; “The House That Cried”; “Anvil Rings”. Two of his recent CDs featuring Soundbeam are “Fractal Bridge” and “Beams & Bells; Live at the QEH”.

DISCOGRAPHY

Van der Graaf Generator:
The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (1970)
H to He, Who Am The Only One (1970)
Pawn Hearts (1971)
Godbluff (1975)
Still Life (1976)
World Record (1976)
Time Vaults (1981)
Present (2005)

Van der Graaf:
The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome (1977)
Vital (Live, 1978)
(Guest)

Solo Works:
Savages (1990 - cassette only)
Hazard Dream Sequence (1991, EP)
Tonewall Stands (1992)
Fractal Bridge (1996)
Guastalla - Live Tonewall & Soundbeam (2002 - DVD)

With René van Commenee:
Batteries Included (2003, live)

With the Wildridings Primary School Choir:
The Single (Grand Opening Song / Minutes Of Peace) (1991, cassette single)
With Treloar School & Ballard School:
Beams & Bells: Live at the QEH (2001, CD)
With St. John's CE (Aided) Primary School:
A to Z Healthy Choices (2003, CD)

The Long Hello project:
The Long Hello (1973) (Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and David Jackson)
The Long Hello Volume Two (1981) (Nic Potter and Guy Evans)
The Long Hello Volume Three (1982) (David Jackson and Guy Evans)
The Long Hello Volume Four (1983) (David Jackson, Guy Evans and Life of Riley)
Jackson, Banton, Evans: Gentlemen Prefer Blues (1986)

Peter Hammill:
Fool's Mate (1971)
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (1972)
The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1973)
Nadir's Big Chance (1974)
The Future Now (1978)
pH 7 (1979)
A Black Box (1980)
Sitting Targets (1981)
Enter K (1982)
Patience (1983)
The Love Songs (1984)
Skin (1986)
Out of water (1990)
Fireships (1991)
The Noise (1992)
Offensichtlich Goldfisch (1993)
Roaring Forties (1994)
X My Heart (1996)
This (1998)
What, now? (2001)
Incoherence (2004)

Hammill, Evans, Banton & other guests:
The Union Chapel Concert (1997)

Jakko Jakszyk
Singles:
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes / Something Tells Me (1982)
Straining Our Eyes / Fall To Pieces (1982)
Grab What You Can / I'd Never Have Known (1982)
(12" version: Grab What You Can / Tell Me Would I Be The Same)
Album:
Silesia (LP 1982 Chiswick TOSS 3630)

Guest contributions:

Alan Sorrenti, Come un vecchio incensiere all'alba di un villaggio deserto (1973)
Astralasia, Eye Of The Angel (1989)
City Boy, Dinner At The Ritz (1976)
Judge Smith, Democrazy (1991)
Judge Smith, Curly's Airships (2000)
Magic Mushroom Band, Spaced Out (1991)
Mangala Vallis, Lycanthrope (2005)
Sarah-Jane Morris, Sarah-Jane Morris (1988)
The Tangent, The Music That Died Alone (2003)

Latest works:
Dorie Jackson, The Courting Ground, 2007
The Tribal Elders (Judge Smith), The Light of the World, 2007

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