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in a wildflower state (WA, 2013)

by fiffdimension

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Didgeridoo overture / overkill 01:47
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Dry wind (Fremantle doctor) 01:26
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Nat da Hatt + fiffdimension - The Road to Bogandoor (Australian election 2013 mix) 03:46
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Sandalwood & Quandong 04:38
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Ukulele & magpies 01:23
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Kalgoorlie super pit 04:25
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Scabbers' beach 02:45
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Cylvi M - Ode to Ed Kuepper 01:06
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This is an ode to Ed Kuepper
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Mundaring Weir 01:49
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Kalbarri coastline 04:55
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Stromatolites 01:49
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Inverno '13 (Indian Ocean sunsets) 04:01
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Incoherent, inchoate & vague quickly gains a turnabout; he willing & rounds his own homemade fractures into a pungent munificence about the room, bandaged & tourniqueted, fully four fifths of his soul is up for the bargaining, gaze gains his waiting...

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A lost album - recorded in Western Australia, 2012-2014 - unreleased at the time.

Includes download-only bonus tracks.

The music here is rustic, reflecting the vast, ancient, sparsely populated, arid landscape - overlaid with touches of Nyoongar and bogan sounds.

Known as the Wildflower State, Western Australia covers an enormous area - the size of India, but with a population of under three million. Metaphorically, to be a 'wildlfower' can also mean a wandering spirit or traveller (such as a kiwi expat on an OE).

This is a sequel to the double album fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/after-maths-sciences-vic-2005 and fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/after-maths-sciences-nsw-2006 , made the previous decade in Melbourne and Sydney - a stylistic departure from my earlier recordings in New Zealand (travel broadens the mind).

Following that I had lived in South Korea and Japan, teaching English for a living and delving deeper into ethnomusicology - see fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/fame-oblivion-2005-2012 - before moving to Perth.

I also visited Indonesia from there, and played gamelan in Perth - fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/gamelan-dimensi-kelima-indonesia-2014

The isolation and profoundly western setting of WA proved a different challenge from living in Asia;

I loved the clean air and wide open spaces, warm sunny climate, endless surf beaches with spectacular sunsets over the Indian Ocean, and unique wildlife and vegetation.

But although the outdoor lifestyle kept me in good physical health, my mental health eventually suffered (hence the unfinished album and lack of live gigs there). I came home to New Zealand (via Indonesia) in late 2014, to rebuild a life in my own country.

For an overview of the period see fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/other-islands-2012-2018

credits

released January 25, 2023

Dave Black - guitars, bass, banjo, ukulele, didgeridoo, harmonica, clarinet, field recordings

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Nat da Hatt - electric guitar & beats on 'The Road to Bogandoor' and 'The Horror'

Cylvi M - shaker; shakuhachi and voice on 'Ode to Ed Kuepper'

Renato Salvador - djembe on 'Brazilian BBQ'

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Recorded in Perth and surrounding regions, Western Australia 2012-2014.

Mixed years later in Featherston, New Zealand.

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fiffdimension Featherston, New Zealand

Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).

Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.

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