2020s Psychedelic garage rock trio: Antony Milton (guitar & keyboards), Dave Edwards (bass & guitar), and David Heath (drums) – in Masterton, New Zealand.
2024
The Margins: 21/04/24
An even more avant-garde side project: Antony and Dave with free improv legend Simon O’Rorke – music from The Margins!
The Troubled Times will return with new music later in 2024 – watch this space.
In the meantime check out the back catalogue:
2023
Another F***ing Sunday
Fizzy dreamy shambolic ramblings from the Wairarapa’s dustiest garage.
Instant songs committed to disk for posterity.
Sun Son Sum
For the third year in a row, we had a recording session on the first day of daylight savings – a short session of spaced out noisy psychedelic ‘rock jams’ this time.
Elevate
Avant-jazz meets squealing rambunctious noise – a contrasting companion piece to the ‘Another Sunday’ CD –
& on cassette or download:
Hill Road in Winter
“a loud and noisy nocturnal romp through the hills and onto the gravel back roads of one of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s least visited regions. All recorded ‘New Zealand style’ in [my] garage.”
Antony Milton
2022
A Second Sun
State Highway 2
plus videos
and guest appearances on
(the otherwise acoustic) Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856) – with an electric swamp blues arrangement of The Dying Monarch;
Negentropic Diatribes, a spoken word album by award-winning painter James Robinson;
and The Troubled Times appear on fiffdimension vol4 águas brilhantes: 2018-2022
2021
Started as a duo of Antony Milton and Dave Edwards in Masterton, NZ
“They realy inform n deepen each other – James Robinson
Prehistory: 2003–2004
Antony Milton and Dave Edwards first crossed paths in Wellington, in the early 2000s.
Antony released the Winter‘s debut album Parataxes on CDR on his PseudoArcana label in 2003,
and played electric violin in the 2004 lineup of Ascension Band.
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