Previously unreleased!
Dictaphone cassette recordings, Wellington NZ, 2004
Spoken word and improvised guitar; a journey down the road not taken for New Zealand music.
Dave Edwards – acoustic guitar, harmonica, dictaphone, electronics, electric guitar (11), violin (12), vocal
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Youjae Lee – bass (12)
Simon O’Rorke – percussion (12)
Simon Sweetman – ukulele, toys, percussion (15)
The tracks were primitively recorded, based on words scribbled in notebooks, unheard by anyone else (until 2020), and seemed like unfinished demos at the time; but in hindsight represent the culmination of my early period (a lo-fi postpunk fusion of songs, spoken word and free improv – www.fiffdimension.com/1997-2005).
By 2004 my style was wordy; the influences here were literary modernists as much as music – eg Burroughs, Joyce, Beckett, Pynchon, Dylan (Thomas), and NZ poets James K Baxter, Alan Brunton and Hone Tuwhare. My guitar heroes included free improviser Derek Bailey, my Mississippi bluesman namesake David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards, and the kiwi musicians found in my bandcamp collection – www.bandcamp.com/fiffdime
‘Articulation Incommunicate’ includes an abrasive electric guitar, dictaphone and electric razor performance at the Bomb the Space Festival (youtu.be/8UFpX7catqw – one of my very few music videos to have over a thousand views… go figure…
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