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Ruasagavulu – with Snake Beings in Fiji
Made in Suva, Fiji, the new album by Dave Black & Snake Beings
Mixing these pieces down gives us a new sound for 2020?
This is currently a pre-order work in progress, as some of the mixes will be refined and tracks over the next few weeks.
Instruments used included keyboards, ukulele, DIY kitchen gamelan percussion, duduk, and field recordings.
The title ‘ruasagavulu’ means ‘twenty’ in Fijian, to kick off the new decade.
www.snakebeings.co.nz
Dr Emit Snake Beings is a travelling artist/musician/filmmaker/shaman/academic who was an early influence on my music.
Most recently we met up in Suva, Fiji, in November 2019.
Ruasagavulu – with Snake Beings in Fiji
Made in Suva, Fiji, the new album by Dave Black & Snake Beings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZI9NVS1XWk&t=6s&w=280&h=162
This is currently a pre-order work in progress, as some of the mixes will be refined and tracks over the next few weeks.
Instruments used included keyboards, ukulele, kitchen gamelan percussion, duduk, harmonica, and field recordings.
The title ‘ruasagavulu’ means ‘twenty’ in Fijian, to kick off the new decade.
Snake Beings and Dave Black in Fiji
A new sound for 2020 perhaps?
the Ballad of William Knife
Music video from the album ‘South Island Sessions‘, set in 19th century New Zealand with an ecological theme. ‘The Ballad of William Knife’ was the name of the show we took to the Dunedin Fringe Festival in 2006.
See also the videos for ‘Bandit Joe on a Scraded Gat’ and ‘BFD’
1861 revisited – Read the rest of this entry »
Fringe Festival 2016: East to West
Here’s my first major project for 2016, as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival:
The show is a big OE epic of video & music from the Tasman to the Atlantic, a decade in the making.
It takes the audience on a journey half way around the world from New Zealand, across Australia, via a dozen countries including Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Albania, Portugal and more.
l’ll play a live soundtrack myself as a solo performance, to evoke each country… it’ll be a culmination of the travelling and field recording /world music direction I’ve taken over the past decade.
So far it’s screened in New Zealand Fringe Festival and also at the Southland Arts Festival in Invercargill.
Snake Beings
www.snakebeings.co.nz
Emit Snake-Beings – founder of the Hamilton Underground Film Festival, composer, musician and electrical shrine maker – is a New Zealand / British experimental filmmaker and musician who has produced over 40 independently released film soundtrack CDs and made a number of short experimental and narrative films in Spain, U.K. and New Zealand.
In 2015 he is releasing Ngumbang, in collaboration with fiffdimension’s Dave Black
www.snakebeings.co.nz
Past projects include:
- / 2014 Maggotism International (on-going self-generating travelogue sound collage)
- / 2010 The construction of Karen Karnak (novel)
- / 2010 A D Normal Snakebeings Lake Train Temple
- / 2010 Oscillator Maggotman
Gamelan Taniwha Jaya 2015
Thanks to everyone who came to see Gamelan Taniwha Jaya play in Wellington recently!
Gopala
Tabuh Telu
In 2015 we’ve also performed at the Newtown Festival, the Southeast Asian Night Market, and Indonesia Day.
Here are a couple of recordings of two of the pieces we played:
https://soundcloud.com/user521325057/margapati-rehearsal-feb-2015/s-rQW6u
These are in the Balinese gong kebyar style of gamelan, which is loud, fast, intricate and modernist. For more info see http://gamelan.org.nz/
Gamelan Taniwha Jaya is a group of New Zealand musicians dedicated to the study and performance of Balinese music. They specialise in contemporary music for Gamelan Gong Kebyar, and frequently incorporate western instruments into the ensemble. Read the rest of this entry »
The Road to Bogandoor
Election night 2013 in Australia mix –
At the time I lived in Perth, WA.
And Australia Day music video from an unfinished Aussie album… enjoy!
Music by Nat da Hatt & Dave Black with Snake Beings, video by Dave Black and Cylvi Manthyng
See also – our first Australian album, After Maths & Sciences,
and Dave Black & Nat da Hatt in Japan: ネオン列車の風景 Neon Train Landscapes
