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After Maths & Sciences (VIC, 2005)

by fiffdimension

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Dave Edwards As a kiwi living abroad in Australia, I loved the wide open spaces and abundance of birdlife... a eucalyptus scent found its way into the music.
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22-6-2005 04:23
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Dave Black - banjo & laptop Cylvi Manthyng - phat beatz Melbourne, Australia, 2005
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The Greenhough 05:19
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Melbourne Streets 02:10
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hic et ups e vol turface 02:43
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O Henry Ending 03:29
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Wealth & Riches (Mt Eliza) 07:13
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In Gippsland 03:26
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Dave Black - banjo & vocal Melbourne, Australia, 2005 ---------- Vietnam veteran coughing through blood finding sex on the internet in Gippsland Tiny rural towns with smog-stacks rising & giant metal teeth clawing up the ground in Gippsland Cold meat pies & melted icecreams & fat sausage rolls & oily fried chicken in Gippsland Motel beds with vomit-stained sheets & cold water showers & all night drinking in Gippsland Conservative voters & rich landowners & poor white trash & Chinese students in Gippsland Elderly women with permed blue hair & matchstick arms watering the garden in Gippsland Retirement villages of gullible elders watching TV & spying on each other in Gippsland Irish salesmen charming their way from bullshit to bullshit & pay to more pay in Gippsland Brown coal burning to generate power & cause global warming & fuck up the planet in Gippsland A pink red sun from bushfires burning & ash is floating down from above in Gippsland Bars on the window & blinds drawn down to block out the sun that shines all day in Gippsland
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Moreland Station, Coburg 02:49
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Dave Black - dictaphone, field recordings, acoustic guitar, harmonica Mike Kingston - cello
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Repent 03:31
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Dave Black - acoustic guitar & vocal Melbourne, Australia, 2005 ------- ...remember: decades if not years if not months if not weekends ago, the huddled cold shivering in-tent. The words fell through: 'I repent for I am militant'.

about

An Australian novel for the ear,

recorded in Melbourne and around Gippsland, Victoria, March-July 2005 - by expat New Zealanders.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDk1hz3dn4&list=PL22B4B68B2C61027F

A companion to fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/after-maths-sciences-nsw-2006

See also fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-wildflower-state-wa-2013 - recorded the following decade in Perth.


2006 | Reviewed by Simon Sweetman

"After Maths & Sciences was recorded by Dave Black (some may know him as David A. Edwards, and if you don’t, then check www.fiffdimension.com, or the compilation of earlier recordings,Gleefully Unknown 1997-2005) in two parts:

"From May-July of 2005 in Melbourne, during the winter.

"And then from December of last year to January of 2006 in New South Wales; summer.

"The album is a travel-document; a response to relocation, a series of sound-sketches and sonic-manipulations designed to confront (and possibly unhinge) the listener; a reflection of several journeys – an aural diary of events from time spent in Australia, evoking the mood of the place (geographically) and the mood of the time (politically).

"Cylvi M’s percussion and shakuhachi (a Japanese woodwind) support Dave Black.

"As Dave Edwards he has explored fuzzy-punk, free-jazz, spoken word, alternative-folk and demented pop, primarily using guitar, harmonica and voice; sometimes with a band or a backing cast at least – often as a solo artist(e).

"Here, as Dave Black, the palette is broadened: banjo, drums and the use of a laptop computer (triggering sounds via Fruityloops, Audacity and Audition programs) add extra textures.

"During 2004/05 Edwards studied journalism, his use of dictaphone and laptop on this recording see him reaching outside of music for influences to use in new contexts.

"The collages that form the pieces on After Maths & Sciences are modern-day field recordings, contemporary anxieties are explored (a typically frank Australian is overheard at a train station lamenting public transport in the wake of the London bombings).

"The juxtaposition of banjo (an instrument prominent in the work of Doc Boggs, Earl Scruggs and many of the earliest artists featured on the iconic U.S. Library Of Congress field recordings made by Alan Lomax and Harry Smith) helps to recontextualise the snapshots of modern-day Australia.

"And the name that Edwards has chosen, Dave Black, as well as having relevance within his family history, becomes a nice reference to the passing of The Man In Black (Johnny Cash) and various (possibly mythic) country-playing banjo pickers.

"For this is “country” music, though perhaps not as we know it.

"Birdsong, despite computer filtering, sits pure alongside the country’s archaic (near-redneck) political views.

"Abrasive bursts of white-noise are channelled via a throbbing electro pulse (Kraftwerk goes on safari sabbatical?).

"There are New Zealand artists working in this medium (Montano, Seht, Audible 3) combining concrete poetry, field recordings, found-sounds and electro-acoustic manipulations to sit as aural wallpaper, but Dave Black’s debut release (and a re-birth, if you like, for David Edwards) is an actual document – as much a post-modern piece of Performance Journalism as it is a static batch of “songs” or tracks,

"After Maths & Sciences is a pleasing challenge of an album. It lives up to the cliché of presenting something new with each listen."

credits

released June 22, 2005

Dave Black - acoustic guitar, banjo, field recordings, laptop, harmonica, drums

Cylvi Manthyng - phat beatz (1), shaker (5)

Mike Kingston - acoustic guitar (5-6)

Francesca Mountfort - cello (5)

& various Australians - various sounds and voices

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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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