“The 20 song album covers traditional Javanese and Balinese gamelan, Asian folk music, to free jazz, and free noise. It’s not for anyone with narrow preconceived ideas about what music is, but it is for everyone else.

“If you have an open inquiring mind and love hearing a variety of sound, this is excellent.” – Darryl Baser, muzic.net.nz

• fiffdimension compilation vol3 – (see also Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005, Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012, and águas Brilhantes: 2018-2022)
• Made in New Zealand, Okinawa (Japan), Western Australia, Indonesia, and Fiji.

• Includes tracks by The Winter, Dave Black & Nat da Hatt, Confluence Quintet, Gamelan Sekar Puri, Gamelan Padhang Moncar, Gamelan Taniwha Jaya, The Electricka Zoo, Dave Black & Snake Beings, Dave Black & Campbell Kneale.

by Dave Black (acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, laptop, bass, tenor saxophone, field recordings, piano, ukulele, sanshin, saron, jublag, demung, vocal), with

• Mike Kingston (charango, acoustic guitar),
• Simon Sweetman (percussion),
• Nat da Hatt (electric guitar, keyboards, banjo),
• Emit Snake-Beings (banjo, vocal, percussion, flute, electronics),
• the Digitator (electric drums, keyboards & loops),
• Campbell Kneale (electric guitar, analogue synthesiser),
• Cylvi M (vocal, field recordings, percussion, shakuhachi),
• Blair Latham (bass clarinet),
• Simon O’Rorke (keyboards),
• Chris Prosser (violin),
• Julie Bevan (acoustic guitar),
• plus Indonesian gamelan ensembles led by Sofari Hidayat, Budi Putra, and Gareth Farr,

• a song written by my great-great-grandfather John Collie (1856),

• and field recordings from Western Australia, Indonesia, Okinawa (Japan), and Fiji.

Featuring tracks from the albums

• The Winter: Flying Visit (2012)
• in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (1999/2014)
• ネオン列車の風景 Neon Train Landscapes (2010-15)
• Ngumbang (2014-15)
• The Winter: Exit Points (2015)
• The Electricka Zoo (2017)
• and previously unheard tracks.

If you enjoy this, try the previous compilations

Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005