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Other Islands: 2012​-​2018

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Dave Edwards An Asia-Pacific odyssey across multiple countries and genres. Made in New Zealand, Okinawa, Western Australia, Indonesia, and Fiji.
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Incoherent inchoate & vague quickly gains a turnabout, he willing & rounds his old 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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Eu gosto de falar no meus ancestrais de as ilhas Atlânticas Madeiras e Açores
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THE BLAST OF A WINTRY DAY. THE cauld blast of winter Is howling o’er the moor; The groves which smiled in summer days, Seem cheerless, lone, and bare. The mellow Warblers of the wood Nae langer chant their lay ; For, oh! it’s a bitter, biting blast, The blast of a wintry day. Nae mair the wee wild flowers are seen Adown the woody vale, Nae mair we feel their balmy breath, Come floating on the gale; Nor on the mossy mountain sides, Nae mair the lambkins play; For they cower beneath the biting blast, The blast of a Wintry day. Nae mair upon the grassy bank The shepherd tunes his reed, but shuddering stands behind the bush, Wrapt in his rough-spun plaid. While round him winter wildly howls In terrible array ; And he shrinks to brave the biting blast, The blast of a wintry day. Nae mair we hear the cushet's coo The waving woods amang, nae mair we hear the linnet's lay, nor the milkmaid's simple sang. Nae mair we hear the humming bee come laden down the brae, for it's a bitter biting blast, the blast of a wintry day. Nae mair the loving pair are seen adown the hawthorn shade; the hawthorn now hath lost its charms and the loving pair have fled. For a howling wind from the angry north has filled them with dismay; and the hawthorn shakes its naked boughs to the blast of a wintry day. Oh give me back the summer days, the gaudy days of yore; that I might sing with joysome glee 'mongst nature's harmless choir; and let me muse adown the vale and o'er the mountains stray - for it's a pure refreshing breeze, the breeze of a summer's day.
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Made in New Zealand, Western Australia, Indonesia, Okinawa (Japan), and Fiji.

Cover photo taken from Nusa Penida, Indonesia, looking towards Bali.

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released December 12, 2018

by Dave Black (acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, laptop, bass, tenor saxophone, field recordings, piano, ukulele, sanshin, saron, jublag, demung, vocal),

with

Emit Snake-Beings (vocal, percussion, flute, electronics),
Nat da Hatt (electric guitar, keyboards),
Campbell Kneale (electric guitar, synthesiser),
Mike Kingston (charango, acoustic guitar),
Simon Sweetman (percussion),
Cylvi M (percussion, shakuhachi),
Blair Latham (bass clarinet),
Simon O'Rorke (keyboards),
Chris Prosser (violin),
Michael Hall (alto saxophone),
Julie Bevan (acoustic guitar),
Digi (electric drums, keyboards & loops),

plus Indonesian gamelan ensembles led by Sofari Hidayat, Budi Putra, and Gareth Farr,



Featuring tracks from the albums

fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/gamelan-dimensi-kelima-indonesia-2014

fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-wildflower-state-wa-2013


fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-non-idiomatic-idiom-in-norway-2014


The Winter: Flying Visit (2012)

in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (1999/2014)

ネオン列車の風景 Neon Train Landscapes (2010-2015)

Ngumbang (2014-2015)

The Winter: Exit Points (2010/2015)

The Electricka Zoo (2017)

and previously unheard tracks


See the videos at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA5UhgFsu_k&list=PLtbrBpNjlOHOfvink1dJANU_UFOs6My4Y

If you enjoy this, try Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005 and Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012

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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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