w/ snakebeings: East to West (Live 2014)

The live debut of Dave Black & Snake Beings, at the Audio Foundation in Auckland, NZ in 2014; and an epic journey half-way around the world, across Eurasia.

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Two itinerant New Zealanders, playing a soundtrack to travel videos by each, collected over years spent living abroad.


The soundtrack infused noise and free improvisation with field recordings and world music elements.

Dave Black & Snake Beings, 2014

(Track 4 first appeared on fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/ngumbang-2015;
we met up again a few years later in Fiji, and recorded fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/ruasagavulu-fiji-2020)

credits

released July 10, 2026

Dave Edwards – acoustic guitar, sanshin, clarinet, melodica, vocal, field recordings, video
www.fiffdimension.com/ethnomusicology

Emit Snake-Beings – percussion, electronics, duduk, zither, field recordings, video
snakebeings.co.nz

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First Time Around: South Korea (2008)

– field recordings, electro-acoustic ethnography, Asian industrial soundscapes

by kiwis in South Korea, 20072008

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Before there was ‘Gangnam Style‘ there was 영통동버스 노래 (Yeongtongdong Bus Song) 

Credits

Recorded in Suwon and Busan, Republic of Korea, 2007-2008

Dave Black – field recordings, laptop, gayageum, loops, bass, acoustic guitar, vocal

Cylvi M – tangso, shakuhachi, shaker, vocal

The pieces here are made from remixed field recordings of traditional Korean musicians, and instruments such as the gayageum, taepyongso, buddhist chants and samulnori drumming, plus our live version of the folk song ‘Arirang’.

Tracklist

1.영통동버스 노래 (Yeongtongdong Bus Song) 02:30
2.음악에 귀 결정적인 음악 관리자 (A Decisive Music Administrator (with an ear for music)) 03:18
3.물주세요 (Mool Chuseyo (give me water)) 01:47
4.동래의 행정 장관의 사무실 (Office of the Dongnae Magistrate) 03:34
5.동쪽에서 서쪽을 충족 (Konglish Cananglish (east meets west)) 01:49
6.부산 대학교 땅땅 (PNU Pounding (Arirang Blues)) 03:28
7.아리랑 (Arirang (live in Busan)) 04:43

Further listening

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