Flying Visit (2012), by The Winter

Flying Visit (2012)

by The Winter

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	1.	ukulele / clarinet / percussion 05:56
	2.	charango / sanshin / percussion (northeast meets southwest) 02:13
	3.	charango / guitar / piano / tenor sax / percussion 07:32
	4.	stereo sextet 05:13
	5.	outro (horns/pipes/birds) 02:12

about

Acoustic instrumental music by Wellington, New Zealand, improvising trio The Winter.

Mike Kingston: charango, guitar, clarinet

Dave Edwards: ukulele, sanshin, tenor sax, piano

Simon Sweetman: xylophone, percussion

Our most recent recordings to date – and the last for some time, as we now live in three different countries. This was recorded during a one-week window of opportunity when we were all back in NZ, in August (the southern hemisphere winter).

Some new international influences are apparent – Mike brought his charango from South America (¡Ole!), and I brought a sanshin from Okinawa, Japan (がんばって!), in the interests of pan-Pacific cross-cultural fusion.

Released in August 2013, to conclude the band’s tenth anniversary celebration (that began with The Winter: 2011), to mark the first anniversary of this particular jam session , and to bid farewell to the southern hemisphere winter of 2013.

The bird on the cover is a kaka (North Island New Zealand native parrot).

Also available:

The Winter: Parataxes

The Winter: Swansong (for the Huia)

The Winter: 2011

credits

released August 18, 2012

Mike Kingston - charango, clarinet, acoustic guitar
Dave Edwards - sanshin, piano, tenor sax, harmonica
Simon Sweetman - percussion, xylophone

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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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discography

Poems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (1856)

Jun 2024
Poems & Lyrics (in the Scotch dialect) (1856)

Jun 2024
Quietism (2024)

Mar 2024
Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin) - 2CD compilation 1998-2023

Nov 2023
electric (yang)

Nov 2023
acoustic (yin)

Nov 2023
Live 2023

Oct 2023
Gamelan Dimensi Kelima (Indonesia, 2014)

Jul 2023
Elevate (2023)

Jul 2023
2010

Jun 2023
assembling disconsonant (2023)

May 2023
in a wildflower state (WA, 2013)

Jan 2023
águas brilhantes: 2018-2022

Dec 2022
Negentropic Diatribes (2022)

Dec 2022
A Second Sun (2022)

Oct 2022
State Highway 2 (2022)

Aug 2022
Shortest Days: 2003-2015

Jul 2022
Spastic Rhythms '22 (2022)

Feb 2022
Return of the Sun (2021)

Nov 2021
Glimpses of Utopia (2020)

Nov 2020
Ruasagavulu (Fiji, 2020)

May 2020
Live 2019

Aug 2019
Live 1999

Jun 2019
Other Islands: 2012-2018

Dec 2018
A Ton of Feathers (2018)

Nov 2018
Escape Velocity (Live 2018)

Mar 2018
The Electricka Zoo (2017)

Jul 2017
Fragmentary Alpha Waves 7" (2016)

Mar 2016
Ngumbang (2015)

Jun 2015
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (2014)

Nov 2014
Frog Throat Sac Defibrillator

Apr 2014
Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012

Dec 2013
ネオン列車の風景 (Japan, 2012)

Jul 2012
維度。第一次：東亞 (Asia, 2008)

Jul 2008
처음으로 (South Korea, 2008)

Jul 2008
South Island Sessions (2006)

Oct 2006
After Maths & Sciences (NSW, 2006)

Jan 2006
Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005

Oct 2005
After Maths & Sciences (VIC, 2005)

Jun 2005
Evolution (2005)

Mar 2005
Articulation Incommunicate (2004)

Oct 2004
Loose Autumn Moans (2003)

Oct 2003
After the Filmshoot (2002)

Oct 2002
Mantis Shaped & Worrying (2002)

Jun 2002
The Marion Flow (Pōneke, 2001)

Jun 2001
in the non-idiomatic idiom in Norway (1999)

Dec 1999
The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999)

Aug 1999
Scratched Surface (1998)

Dec 1998

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