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Ngumbang (2015)

by snakebeings + fiffdimension

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Dave Edwards
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Dave Edwards 1st collaboration with www.snakebeings.co.nz
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Huia Vortex (feat. Nat da Hatt) 03:56
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The Feathered Serpent Sings Again 05:13
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Illbelly Gritts 03:57
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Watching a Painting Melt 01:47
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さくら さくら (Japanese folk song) - live at the Audio Foundation 04:52
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Pig in the Bamboo 01:47
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Live at Vitamin S (#1.5) 04:37
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Pick up the Pieces (after the gig) 04:48
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Pick up the Pieces (after the jam session) 04:45
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Ornery Return Cravings 02:40
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kuningan dan perunggu (Indonesian brass and bronze) 02:50
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So Long Notes 06:01
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Ngumbang is the first collaborative album by two of New Zealand’s more unusual artist/musician/filmmaker/ethnomusicologists - performed on guitars, bass, banjo, percussion, saxophones, clarinets, harmonicas, synthesisers, Okinawan sanshin, ukulele, violin, loop pedal, piano, drums and spoken word.

Emit Snake-Beings, who over several decades has travelled intensively in Spain, Holland, the Middle East, Mexico, America and Japan, is a New Zealand / British experimental filmmaker and musician who has produced over 40 independently released film soundtrack CDs and made a number of short experimental and narrative films in Spain, U.K. and New Zealand.
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Dave Black, originally from Taranaki and active since the late 90s on the NZ underground music scene, began by fusing acoustic pop, noisy postpunk, spoken word and avant-garde improvisation – and has diversified further from there. Notable performances include the award-winning 14-piece Ascension Band, appearing as an international artist at the Liquid Architecture Festival in Australia, and teaching a thousand Okinawan school students to perform a haka.
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'Ngumbang' is an Indonesian word that refers to the slight difference in tuning between a pair of gamelan instruments, which gives gamelan music its shimmering quality. As an album name it reflects a shared interest in ethnomusicology and experimentation, and the almost-but-not-quite-equivalent approaches of these two artists.

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released June 13, 2015

dave black & snake beings

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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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