1856 to 2026 – DIY outsider music, from Aotearoa NZ and beyond
A compilation by Wellington NZ free improv trio The Winter
Simon Sweetman – drums, percussion
Mike Kingston – guitars, cello (2-5), clarinet (7,11,14), charango (7,10)
Dave Edwards – guitars, vocal (3), harmonica (4,7,9), banjo (7), ukulele (7,9,11), saxophone (10,14), piano (10), bass (12,13), electronics (6,8,13)
Wellington, New Zealand,
free improv music trio, formed on winter solstice day June 2003.
An archive compilation,
Continue reading “The Winter: Shortest Days 2003-2015”Multimedia spoken word and music collaboration between two unique NZ artists:
James Robinson is a mid career contemporary New Zealand mixed media artist, exhibiting widely since 1989 – www.jamesrobinson.nz
fiffdimension is music and multimedia by Dave Edwards (aka Dave Black) and collaborators, since 1998 – www.fiffdimension.com
We met in the early 2000s, and finally collaborated 20 years on. Negentropic Diatribes was recorded in Otago in 2022, as James used spoken word recordings to discuss his creative process and innermost thoughts.
The musical settings were created by Dave in Featherston – plus contributions from other collaborators.
with
James won 2007 paramount prize in the wallace award for
” Taniwaha dragon mother ( spirit bones)”
Continue reading “w/ James Robinson – Negentropic Diatribes (2022)”‘… a great big flatulent belch of fresh air amongst all the tight-sphinctered, deodorised boys and girls of the accepted national art world….. off-kilter and threatening but always sumptuously, gloriously beautiful.’
– Chris Knox.
Featherston, NZ – early 2022 – spontaneous compositions, two wet weekends in a row.
A sequel to Spastic Rhythms vol 1 (2021)
Dave Black – guitars, bass, banjo (2), clarinet (6), sanshin (10), loop pedal, e-drum
Oscar – vocal (3,9)
released February 13, 2022
| 1. | Drums on Waitangi Day 00:54 |
| 2. | Estado Novo 01:20 |
| 3. | Oscar – Oscar’s Blues 01:28 |
| 4. | fiffdimension / snakebeings – Arising (into Fragments) 03:51 |
| 5. | Black Mountain (Црна Гора) 00:59 |
| 6. | Shuffling the Tarot 03:39 |
| 7. | Classical rain bucket 01:41 |
| 8. | Rebooting 02:52 |
| 9. | Oscar – At home pants ft. cannon bone 02:12 |
| 10. | Removing a bandaid 00:51 |
| 11. | Shuri Jo (琉球諸島) 01:03 |
| 12. | Waiting for Dovi 05:24 |
A compilation of tracks from the Wairarapa in these years.
“It is unusual to find someone playing so confidently in such diverse areas, and anyone into independent music will certainly find something on here to enjoy – Kev Rowland, muzic.nz
Hans Landon-Lane plays accordion, ukulele and vocal on
“The sweet breath of summer blows fresh o’er each plain
The woods have resumed their lost grandeur again
The grove with the notes of the blackbirds are singing
By fountain and stream the wild flowers are springing […]”
“I sing of the land where in youth I have rambled
I sing of her heroes who long long are gone
And I sing of her steep crags where oft I have scrambled
When dull pining cares to me were unknown […]”
Continue reading “Hans Landon-Lane”Here’s a health to my cronies where e’er they reside,
whether this side or that o’ yon big rowing tide
I care na what country or kingdom they claim, be they English or Irish to me it’s the same
Gif their hearts to a glass o’ gude whisky incline, I instantly class them as cronies o’ mine […]”
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Antony Milton is a sound artist based in Masterton, New Zealand.
He has been active in the underground and experimental music scenes since the early 1990s.
Continue reading “w/ Antony Milton: Return of the Sun”The 2021 debut album by The Troubled Times!
This was our first recording session, as an electric guitar improv duo – in collaboration with antonymilton.bandcamp.com
Recorded in Masterton, New Zealand, 26 September 2021 – on the first day of daylight savings, in the southern hemisphere Spring,
Antony Milton is a sound artist based in Masterton, New Zealand.
He has been active in the underground and experimental music scenes since the early 1990s.
Continue reading “w/ Antony Milton: Return of the Sun”New live album!
With New Zealand in lockdown this might be the next best thing to an actual gig..
Track 1 recorded live at the Fringe Bar, Wellington NZ, 27-02-18
Tracks 2-7 recorded live at Escape Velocity, Featherston NZ, 10-03-18
As part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival
The Digitator – midi, laptop, vocal
Dave Black – bass, electric guitar
A new multilayered Dave Black electric improv / xenochronous composition.
The track continues the evolution of my Wairarapa one man band 2020s ‘late style’, which began with Glimpses of Utopia (2020) and Spastic Rhythms (2021)
It was originally created for the Psi-solation+1 – 2021 compilation album curated by fellow Featherston resident Campbell Kneale. He’s known for his noise music, paintings of cats, and as proprietor of the Miracle Room.
Continue reading “Outono 21”2021 compilation album curated by Campbell Kneale. He’s known for his noise music, paintings of cats, and as proprietor of the Miracle Room gallery in Featherston.
A sequel to his acclaimed 119-track Psi-solation compilation of music made in lockdown 2020.
Both albums are pay what you want via Campbell’s label, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon.
I contributed a new Dave Black piece, Outono 21.
Continue reading “PSI-SOLATION + 1 (one year on)”This track was originally recorded by The Electricka Zoo (2017), and appears on the Other Islands: 2012-2018 compilation. It’s based around a (non-diatonic) Cmaj7 – Amaj7 pattern, with a bossa nova rhythm.
It’s dedicated to my great-great-grandfather Manuel Bernard.
He was born in 1847 in Ponta Delgada, Flores Island, Azores, Portugal.
The words are in (beginner) Portuguese:
Eu gosto de falar
no meus ancestrais
de as ilhas Atlânticas
Madeiras e Açores
Portugal is the westernmost country in Europe, with its back to it geographically and culturally. It was the edge of the known world for Europeans until the Age of Discovery. The Azores islands are even further west.
As a teenager, Manuel Bernard stowed away on a passing American whaling ship.
From a remote island in the Atlantic ocean, he ended up on an equally remote island in the Pacific – on the opposite side of the world, in Wellington, New Zealand.
Continue reading “ilhas Atlânticas”A quickfire Dave Black solo EP, recorded one summer morning, 24 January 2021
It includes ilhas Atlânticas, a tribute to my Portuguese ancestor Manuel Bernard.
| 1. | banjo trio 24/1/21 03:01 |
| 2. | drums 1 24/1/21 00:49 |
| 3. | guitar trio (ringtone) 24/1/21 02:07 |
| 4. | gritches blerk 24/1/21 01:12 |
| 5. | spastic drum solo 24/1/21 04:38 |
| 6. | ilhas Atlânticas 03:12 |
| 7. | Outono 21 08:49 |
The album adds banjo and electric drums to the 2020s Wairarapa DIY solo electric improv style begun in
The first of the ‘late period’ solo instrumental albums.
A compilation of tracks from the Wairarapa in these years.
“It is unusual to find someone playing so confidently in such diverse areas, and anyone into independent music will certainly find something on here to enjoy – Kev Rowland, muzic.nz
fiffdimension 