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Articulation Incommunicate (2004)

by fiffdimension

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...almost at the stage of setting fire to manuscript...
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Time will pass, the house will walk, she's helping me to sing no more pretty whiskey choice living in sunglass scene the clouds become birthday dreams a perfect varnished scene the sun is in my face, trees take their daily swim and hear the songs they say...
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that would be all my comical brain could take
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...we're just sitting here waiting for the explain - doubt repugnant in the cellar fury told trodden opening accident damp - being announces itself early morning, "this is irrelevant commentary on nothing", so said a witness...
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...felled in awe of abrasive wind refuge widened....insect return to strafing coincides with tension.
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King collides with Ken, piledriving shoulder, Ken goes sprawling on floor. The circus floor opens & Ken goes falling mythologically down into the underworld, watches his heart petrified & doesn't fight back...
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the 90s #6 00:33
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...beer breathing up comes face whispering grin singing "happiness is not, God is not"....
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"Get that fiery bloodsucking saxophone playing out of my skin!" I exclaim as the band are leading me into the charge...
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Time will pass, the house will walk, she's helping me to sing no more pretty whiskey choice living in sunglass scene the clouds become birthday dreams a perfect varnished scene the sun is in my face, trees take their daily swim and hear the songs they say...
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the inward windward word would seen him hand petite on table wait in hand going off foreign flinged it off to & again stone glance favours when port of shipping calls....
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about

Previously unreleased! 

Dave Edwards - dictaphone cassette recordings, Wellington NZ, 2004

Spoken word and improvised guitar; a journey down the road not taken for New Zealand music.

The tracks were primitively recorded, based on words scribbled in notebooks, unheard by anyone else (until 2020), and seemed like unfinished demos at the time; but in hindsight represent the culmination of my early period (a lo-fi postpunk fusion of songs, spoken word and free improv - www.fiffdimension.com/1997-2005).

By 2004 my style was wordy; the influences here were literary modernists as much as music - eg Burroughs, Joyce, Beckett, Pynchon, Dylan (Thomas), and NZ poets James K Baxter, Alan Brunton and Hone Tuwhare. My guitar heroes included free improviser Derek Bailey, my Mississippi bluesman namesake David 'Honeyboy' Edwards, and the kiwi musicians found in my bandcamp collection - www.bandcamp.com/fiffdime

'Articulation Incommunicate' includes an abrasive electric guitar, dictaphone and electric razor performance at the Bomb the Space Festival (youtu.be/8UFpX7catqw - one of my very few music videos to have over a thousand views... go figure),

and two free improvisations, with bassist Youjae Lee, and percussionists Simon O'Rorke and Simon Sweetman

Next, having lived in Wellington (my birthplace) for five years and needing a change of scene; having pushed the avant/folk/singer/songwriter envelope as far as I could; and following ensemble collaborations with The Winter and Ascension Band,

the following year I left NZ on my OE, and took a different approach …. (www.fiffdimension.com/2005-2012)

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released October 10, 2004

Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, harmonica, dictaphone, electronics, electric guitar (11), violin (12), vocal

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Youjae Lee - bass (12)
Simon O'Rorke - percussion (12)
Simon Sweetman - ukulele, toys, percussion (15)


Wellington, New Zealand, 2004

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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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