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South Island Sessions (2006)

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Dave Edwards
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Dave Edwards Recorded during a year (2006) spent in Nelson, Te Wai Pounamu - new collaborators, expanding horizons. Steampunk banjo glitch folktronica.
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He eats he beats he roots he sleeps
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One female evening ships defining dark upon the pen And Christ become a jailer Couldn't separate the me from the iconography When will the master become the servant? The curtain arrow word time hand shot to mislinger & a freefall served them askance The upside-down seasons untoward uneven innocent In the antipodean moonlight Whatever happened to knowing is naught (no he is not) and a slamming of doors? I would come to the sun setting, doing no harm & its place were a band of misfits Tired of his laugh & pay & pray for all to what its worth He came upon a Celtic crown & caught ye up an arrow field Not less than mean for all its purpose All the intents were out of date, the grateful leaving innocence When progress came down to the table Gleeful owners trade & salivate The meek shall inherit the Earth They're the only ones who know what it's worth As they work their hands into it
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about

1861 revisited – my first pakeha (European) ancestors, Totara Jack and Mary, arrived in the South Island of New Zealand on board the Olympus and settled in Nelson.

When I lived nearby a century and a half later, I found the address where they’d lived, just below a spot on a hill that marks the geographical centre of NZ. To the north is Tasman Bay, and south are the foothills of the Southern Alps.

I jammed with South Island musicians; studied at the Nelson School of Music; played in Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, Blenheim, Lyttelton and Dunedin (as well as Brisbane, Australia); and recorded the sound of tui and makomako (native birds) in Nelson Lakes National Park.

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released October 21, 2006

Dave Black – acoustic guitar (2,3,6), banjo (3,4,6), drums (4), harmonica (2), laptop, field recordings, tenor saxophone (5,7), vocals (2)

Cylvi Manthyng – vocals & phat beatz (1)

Frey – no-input mixing desk (3)

Hayden Gifkins - electric guitar (5,7)

Matt Thornicroft – electric guitar (5,7)

Haz / Cookie – drums (7)

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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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