Music News - Fiffdimension Releases Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin) 2CD compilation 1998-2023
24 November 2023 - 0 Comments
Produced by Antony Milton; and features Paul Winstanley, Chris O’Connor, Simon O’Rorke, Chris Palmer, Sam Prebble, Mike Kingston, Francesca Mountfort, Damian Stewart, Emit Snake-Beings, Nat da Hatt, Steve Duffels, and Oscar (the dog).
The 2CD compilation focuses on Dave Edwards’ compositions, their acoustic/electric duality, and boils down a quarter-century of restless creativity to two concise discs. (It excludes regular or large ensembles, other composers, and Asia-Pacific ethnomusicology)
A self-taught outsider, Dave Edwards began writing songs as a teenager in New Plymouth, and released the debut Fiffdimension album Scratched Surface on CDR in 1998.
He spent the turn-of-the-millennium era in Wellington (his birthplace), amid the free-improvisation and avant-garde music scene (& yes was an extra in Lord of the Rings).Over the next six years he made an idiosyncratic series of albums on CDR and cassette, fusing acoustic folk and electric postpunk with modernist spoken word and free improv. And formed The Winter trio with Mike Kingston and Simon Sweetman.
In 2005 Dave collaborated with Nigel Patterson (The Black Seeds), winning Best Music Award in the NZ Fringe Festival with their 18-piece punk orchestra Ascension Band.
In 2006 Dave studied at the Nelson School of Music, and performed solo at the Liquid Architecture Festival in Brisbane and Lines of Flight Festival in Dunedin.
From 2007-2014 he lived in South Korea, Montenegro, Okinawa (Japan), and Western Australia. On returning to NZ, Dave played in the Indonesian gamelan ensemble Gamelan Taniwha Jaya, led by composer Gareth Farr; and rock/electronica duo The Electricka Zoo.
He lives in the Wairarapa, and continues to create original music (available on Bandcamp) – in the 2020s as one of The Troubled Times, with Antony Milton and David Heath.
Other recent collaborators include award-winning painter James Robinson, noise master Campbell Kneale, and multimedia ethnomusicologist Dr Emit Snake-Beings.
A forthcoming project is Poems & Lyrics by John Collie (1856) – musical adaptations of the book, written by Dave’s early pākeha settler ancestor in Scotland.
Available now, limited edition double CD.
www.fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/merch
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