First Time Around: East Asia
Field recordings, sketches, soundscapes and stories from South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Mongolia, by Dave Black and Cylvi M (2008)
First Time Around: South Korea
Field recordings, electro-acoustic ethnography, Asian industrial soundscapes from the land of morning calm – made in Suwon and Busan, South Korea, by Dave Black and Cylvi M (2007–2008)
South Island Sessions
Steampunk folktronica from an alternate 19th century – made in Nelson, NZ by Dave Black with Cylvi M, Hayden Gifkins, Matthew Thornicroft and Frey (2006)
After Maths & Sciences (Australia)
An Australian double-album novel for the ear, recorded in Melbourne VIC, and Sydney and Gosford NSW, by Dave Black with Cylvi M, Mike Kingston and Francesca Mountfort (2005-2006)
“There are New Zealand artists working in this medium (Montano, Seht, Audible 3) combining concrete poetry, field recordings, found-sounds and electro-acoustic manipulations to sit as aural wallpaper, but Dave Black’s debut release (and a re-birth, if you like, for David Edwards) is an actual document – as much a post-modern piece of Performance Journalism as it is a static batch of “songs” or tracks, After Maths & Sciences is a pleasing challenge of an album. It lives up to the cliché of presenting something new with each listen,”
– Simon Sweetman
Ascension Band: Evolution
Award-winning electric symphony for post-punk big-band – by organist/conductor/arranger Nigel Patterson (The Black Seeds, The Manta Rays, Fly My Pretties), guitarist & organiser Dave Edwards (fiffdimension, The Winter), and over a dozen musicians including Ryan Prebble, Bell Campanita, Warwick Donald and more on guitars, basses, drums, electronics, keyboards, trumpets and vocals (2005)
“The 50-minute piece of music, broken down into six movements, was performed live over a few nights for the Fringe Festival in 2005; the group taking out the Best Music Award.
“It was stunning. ”
Simon Sweetman
Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005
vol1 – songs, spoken word and improvisations from the early phase of my gloriously unsuccessful career, by Dave Black with The Winter, Ascension Band,plus Chris O’Connor, Paul Winstanley, Simon O’Rorke, Chris Palmer, Sam Prebble, Francesca Mountfort and more
Rough outsider folk-blues mysteries, dissonant rock textures, electric and acoustic improvisations… Edwards strikes me as one of the most overlooked musicians from the fertile lands of New Zealand and if you need a fresh start this might very well be the place.” –
Mats Gustaffson, The Broken Face
Articulation Incommunicate
dictaphone cassette recordings, Wellington NZ, 2004 – spoken word and improvised guitar; a journey down the road not taken for New Zealand music.
Loose Autumn Moans
Semi-acoustic songs orchestrated with a string section, made on all-analogue equipment in Wellington NZ, by Dave Edwards, with Sam Prebble, Mike Kingston, and Simon Sweetman (2003)
“Here Wellington, NZ composer Dave Edwards mostly goes it solo with some able assistance from duo or trio the Winter. […] verbose spoken word expositions over acoustic improvisations. Guitars, violin, cello, and percussion all stack up… He’s got a persona that’s all his own.”– George Parsons, Dream Magazine #5
The Winter: Parataxes
The Winter trio’s debut: electric and acoustic trio improvisations for guitars, cello and percussion, by Dave Edwards, Mike Kingston, and Simon Sweetman (2003) subscribe to hear, or start with the compilation
After the Filmshoot
Idiosyncratic Wellington NZ spoken word + instrumental voyages into inner space, by Dave Edwards with Simon O’Rorke (2002)
+ Mantis Shaped & Worrying
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“spoken word and instrumental colour, with the latter lurching from acoustic strums to occasional cacophony. On the final track, ‘Revenge of the Smur‘ Edwards uses a primarily percussive accompaniment whose impact is as dramatic as his wordplay”
– Real Groove
The Marion Flow
Electric and acoustic songs, spoken word and instrumentals – an almost-recognised New Zealand classic, featuring Chris O’Connor, Paul Winstanley, Simon O’Rorke, Chris Palmer, Joe Callwood, the Digitator, Steve Duffels, Dean Brown, and Brian Wafer.
| Made in New Plymouth | and Wellington |
“It’s lo-fi, organic and about as eclectic as one could manage. Kind of reminds me of Nick Cave if he had grown up in Timaru. No pretentious American accents or catch phrase choruses, just a bunch of people making music. A little beauty!” – NZ Musician, August/September 2002
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