The main project for 2018 was Other Islands: 2012-2018;
The last five (of the 20) tracks were recorded in 2018 – each in a different genre:
Tag: 2018
The Blast of a Wintry Day (by John Collie, 1856)
A song written by my great-great-grandfather John Collie, in Banffshire, Scotland, in 1856.
It also appeared on
Other Islands: 2012-2018
Where it marked a return to my solo acoustic approach of early years.
lyrics
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Isa Lei, and the Yasawa islands, Fiji
This rearrangement of a traditional Fijian folk song was inspired by hearing the song sung there.
In May I visited the Yasawa Islands, to the northwest of Nadi and the main Fijian island Viti Levu.
Yasawa islands, Fiji
Yasawa islands, Fiji
Yasawa islands, Fiji
The boat ride took 3 hours, and enjoyably scenic. Each of the many small islands we passed was different in some way but all stunning
The marine life included
Part of Other Islands: 2012-2018
– recent highlights recorded in New Zealand, Western Australia, Fiji, Indonesia and Okinawa
Campbell Kneale & Dave Black
A Ton of Feathers is the first collaboration
by Campbell Kneale (guitar, analogue synthesiser)
& Dave Black (bass, electric toothbrush, video).
Made in Featherston, Wairarapa NZ in 2018.
New Zealand folk music, in the tradition of Birchville Cat Motel, the Dead C, and Len Lye.
This excerpt appears on the compilation Other Islands: 2012-2018, and is part of a longer piece, due for release in 2020.
Other Islands: 2012-2018
“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,
- 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
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