RECENT WORKS, IN FEATHERSTON AND FIJI
2022
The Troubled Times: A Second Sun
The Troubled Times: State Highway 2
w/ James Robinson – Negentropic Diatribes
Spoken word + electric improv soundtrack, in collaboration with http://www.jamesrobinson.nz
Spastic Rhythms ’22
Dave Black solo instrumental EP – wet weekends in February, with a dog
Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856)
a 19th century epic acoustic work-in-progress
in the English
and Scotch dialects
adapted from the book, written in Scotland in 1856, by my great-great-grandfather,
and set to music along with some of his other descendants.
“If aught can claim a spirit’s admiration, Sure it must be this beautiful creation.” –
John Collie (1834-1893)
2021
Return of the Sun – w/ Antony Milton
the recent antony milton colab is loverly ..you realy inform n deepen each other
James Robinson
Spastic Rhythms vol1
Dave Black solo EP
2020
Ruasagavulu – w/ Dr Emit Snake Beings
Made in Fiji, with Dr Emit Snake-Beings –
tropical avant-garde instrumentals for keyboards, ukulele, dholak, duduk, harmonicas, DIY kitchen gamelan, and video.
“So easy to get totally lost in this music, recommend for helping with your inner peace” – Andi Verse
Glimpses of Utopia
Palette-cleansing Dave Black solo electric guitar improv.
John Collie‘s poem ‘Solitude‘ featured on
Psi-solation: a global compilation of music made in lockdown
From Featherston NZ and around the world, capturing the moment the world as we knew it ended, curated by Campbell Kneale. Featuring Antony Milton, Chris O’Connor, Clayton Thomas, Darryl Baser, Jeff Henderson, mr sterile, Oona Verse, Pumice, 1/3 Octave Band, and over 100 more.
“Something about this global pandemic is inspiring people to create and/or curate art on a massive scale…. and this compilation, being offered for free/name-yr-price, is indeed M A S S I V E.” – Howard Seltzer
2019
Live 2019
Solo acoustic set plus an interview, live streamed from Wairarapa TV
“Great skills and a refreshing rebirth of a beatnik sensibility, this is folk the way folk should be” – Andi Verse
2018
I began a new life in the Wairarapa…
A Ton of Feathers – w/ Campbell Kneale
noise duo in Featherston:
and
the Electricka Zoo
This isn’t the whole story.
I’m in my 40s, pre-millennial Generation X; there’s a quarter century’s worth before this…
2012-2018
2005-2012
1997-2005
…but I discovered the Wairarapa connection went back further, to
1856
Poems & Lyrics by John Collie
a 19th century epic acoustic work-in-progress
adapted from the book, written in Scotland in 1856, by my great-great-grandfather,
and set to music along with some of his other descendants.
“If aught can claim a spirit’s admiration, Sure it must be this beautiful creation.” – John Collie (1834-1893)