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Shortest Days: 2003​-​2015

by The Winter

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O Henry, falling leaves & branches talk a worried sad refrain, your eyes half tilt, your brain half mast to tie the fond anonymous bond beyond your aching shelter lying walls that fall to fall & raise the days, museum haze O Henry for the season, falling autumn rains reigns its claim to fame, your head a handsome sleeping sound, your ship not sleeping in the sand when run aground, you stall tall story disco library, white with dust & wiped & fussed; open even over time does not mind to go in blind O Henry, unforeseen your odds are even now to me I don't see how you never lied, you never cried; your melancholic putrefaction changed its dirt & you were left unhurt - & you went waltzing through the door, to be O Henry ending nevermore, nevermore
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Newtown #4 03:11
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2011 #1 03:43
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Kilbirnie #3 03:15
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Exeunt 01:20

about

Wellington NZ -
free improvisation trio
of Simon Sweetman , Dave Edwards, & Mike Kingston

The perfect antidote to BBQ reggae;

in contrast to the noise/drone and free-jazz approaches of most Wellington free improvisation of the era, The Winter came from a folk angle, with Cetic, Balkan and electroacoustic touches.

The Winter formed in Wellington NZ on winter solstice day 2003 (the name stuck); in hiatus since 2015.


Ft excerpts from the albums

fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/parataxes-2003
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/loose-autumn-moans-2003
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/swansong-for-the-huia-2004
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/2010
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/2011
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/flying-visit-2012
fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/exit-points-2015

credits

released July 7, 2022

Simon Sweetman - drums & percussion

Mike Kingston - guitars, cello (2-5), bass (7), charango (7,11),
clarinet (7,12,15)

Dave Edwards - guitars, vocal (4), harmonica (3,7,9), banjo (7), ukulele (7,9,11,14), tenor saxophone (10,11,15), piano (10,11), bass (12,13), sanshin (14), electronics (6,8,13)

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Photos by James Gilberd (1-5), Chrissie Butler (7), Brent Bevan (12-13)

Special thanks to Antony Milton, Sam Prebble (RIP), Tania McMurtrie, Daniel Beban, Nell Thomas, Fredd Marshall, Craig Ireson, Nigel Patterson, Katy Sweetman

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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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