Recorded on new year’s day, 01 January 2026
in a garage in Featherston, NZ
credits
released January 1, 2026
Dave Edwards – percussion
Tag: New Zealand music
Live 2025
A late EP coda to the year –
recorded live at the Bakehouse, 29-11-25 – opening act for Featherston Free Sound Ensemble /
includes two pieces from Poems & Lyrics in the Scotch Dialect (1856)
and the first live performance of Assembling Disconsonant
2025 roundup
Another productive year here! We released:
- Ruasagavulu ka lima (Fiji)
- Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856)
- Live 2025
- Featherston Free Sound Ensemble
- The Troubled Times
Ruasagavulu ka lima (Fiji)
An acoustic solo album, made in the Yasawa islands, Fiji. Ukulele and field recordings, with acoustic bass and percussion.
Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856)
A musical adaptation of my ancestor’s book, finally ‘close enough’ to finished after seven years… or 169, depending how you count it.
in the Scotch Dialect
in the English Dialect
Live 2025
Featherston Free Sound Ensemble
A new collaboration with turntablists Guy Walker and Alex V – free improv electronica for the regions.
Live @ the Bakehouse 29-11-25
Our live debut – more to come in 2026!
Experiments Under the Hills
October-November, with Guy Walker and Alex V
First Experiments
September-October, with Guy Walker
The Troubled Times
with Antony Milton and David Heath in Masterton NZ.
Unsteady Ground
As close as we’ve come to a ‘political’ album
dDA
We swapped instruments and almost formed a new band.
Homo Homini Lupus
We appeared on this ‘various artists’ compilation from Louisville, Kentucky
Sparkle Tube
Dave and Antony duo
Smudge
Winter was too cold for the garage, so we played ‘lounge music’
Thanks for listening! See you in 2026...
The Troubled Times: Smudge (2025)
“Nutso falling over kind of wonkiness from mid-winter” = Antony Milton
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credits
The Troubled Times are:
- Antony Milton – guitar, synths
- Dave Edwards – guitar
- David Heath – drums & percussion
- Tracks 1-9 recorded July 2025; tracks 10-12 recorded August 2022
- in Masterton, Aotearoa/NZ
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Continue reading “The Troubled Times: Smudge (2025)”Experiments Under the Hills (2025)
Smalltown NZ free improv by Featherston Free Sound Ensemble
Paetumokai / Featherston,
Aotearoa / New Zealand,
credits
- Guy Walker – turntable, cassette loops
- Alex V – turntable, MIDI, sampler
- Dave Edwards – bass, guitar, e-drum, harmonica
Recorded at the Bakehouse, October-November 2025
tracklist
| 1. | 19-11-25 #1 orchestral overture 08:53 |
| 2. | 27-11-25 #3 casino 03:39 |
| 3. | 12-11-25 #4a static electricity 02:34 |
| 4. | 12-11-25 #5c tremelo 03:48 |
| 5. | 30-10-25 #2 Bulgarian 11:27 |
| 6. | 27-11-25 #2 banjo 04:55 |
| 7. | 12-11-25 #3b ukulele 03:27 |
| 8. | 12-11-25 #5a EDM 03:51 |
| 9. | 30-10-25 #3 guitar 04:27 |
| 10. | 19-11-25 #4 towards the exit 03:25 |
| 11. | 12-11-25 #3a orchestral reprise 04:53 |
Further listening:
Continue reading “Experiments Under the Hills (2025)”“I was wide awake at 2.30am so listened to us on headphones in the dark in bed. I’m probably biased, but I think we sound bloody awesome” – Guy Walker
Live at the Bakehouse 29/11/25
Smalltown free improv – live at @bakehousecollectivenz
“I was wide awake at 2.30am so listened to us on headphones in the dark in bed. I’m probably biased, but I think we sound bloody awesome” – Guy Walker
Paetumokai / Featherston,
Aotearoa / New Zealand,
29 November 2025
credits
Guy Walker – turntable, cassette loops
Alex V – turntable, MIDI, sampler
Dave Edwards – bass, guitar, e-drum, harmonica
Continue reading “Live at the Bakehouse 29/11/25”Featherston Free Sound Ensemble: First Experiments (2025)
Guy Walker – turntables, cassettes (right channel)
Dave Edwards – bass, guitar, e-drum (left channel)
Recorded at the Bakehouse, Featherston NZ, 18/09/25
Continue reading “Featherston Free Sound Ensemble: First Experiments (2025)”The Troubled Times: Sparkle Tube (2025)
A return to the duo lineup of our earliest recordings (Antony Milton and Dave Edwards).
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CD-R edition
Limited edition physical copies of Sparkle Tube are available from Antony’s Grey Cyphers CDR label, along with other NZ artists including Rain Sleepers, Agentsss, L$D Fundraiser, CJA, Tower of Heaven, and more.
Old school cdr label out of back blocks New Zealand/Aotearoa releasing music by Agentsss and other lo-fi mystic wannabes
Antony Milton
About
Duo outing for The Troubled Times on this disk, ostensibly this is material Dave and Antony recorded while waiting for drummer David to show up for practice. He never showed up…
More of a weird improv noise album this one- except for the ‘musical’ bits..
Kind of dreamy.
(But you know what dreams are like, cruising one minute- terror the next.)
Continue reading “The Troubled Times: Sparkle Tube (2025)”Poems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (1856)
Songs of the seasons, the forest and the sea, home and exile, mortality and immortality:
an adaptation of the book, “Poems and Lyrics (in the English and Scotch dialects)“ by John Collie, of Boyndie (1834-1893), with music by his descendants in New Zealand, between 2020-2025
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“Songs from the harp and lyre – a fantastic flow back from the ancient days” – Dr Emit Snake-Beings
The album includes collaborations with my nephew Hans Landon-Lane, plus guest appearances by Antony Milton and Dr Emit Snake-Beings.
“I have been lucky enough to hear some of Dave Edwards work on this at a couple of shows – very cool concept project and worth a listen” – James Trotman
Background
My great-great-grandfather published his book in 1856, before emigrating to New Zealand for the rest of his life.
Discovering this family outsider art precedent in 2018 cast fiffdimension in a whole new light! It sparked a seven-year project to record musical arrangements of his poems for a new century’s audience.
“And with a trembling hand I launch my tiny vessel into the troubled ocean of literature , where many a noble craft has been shattered to pieces…”
Like his better-known countryman (and influence) Robert Burns, John Collie wrote in both English and Scots. The other half of the album is Poems & Lyrics in the Scotch Dialect
Continue reading “Poems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (1856)”Poems & Lyrics (in the Scotch dialect) (1856)
Songs of alcohol, death, the devil, rebellion, kinship, and love gone awry, from 19th century Scotland:
an adaptation of the book, “Poems and Lyrics (in the English and Scotch dialects)“ by John Collie, of Boyndie (1834-1893),
with music by his descendants, between 2018-2025 in New Zealand and France.
Listen
“Songs from the harp and lyre – a fantastic flow back from the ancient days” – Dr Emit Snake-Beings
“I have been lucky enough to hear some of Dave Edwards work on this at a couple of shows – very cool concept project and worth a listen” – James Trotman
Background
Continue reading “Poems & Lyrics (in the Scotch dialect) (1856)”“And with a trembling hand I launch my tiny vessel into the troubled ocean of literature , where many a noble craft has been shattered to pieces…”
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