Biography
‘Gleefully Unknown‘ Wellington-based New Plymouth-raised lo-fi homebrew musician releasing material under his own name (on his own fiffdimension mail order label), under the fiffdimension or Dave Black aliases, as well as with Ascension Band, The Winter, and in collaboration with other like-minded artists such as Antony Milton, Snakebeings and Campbell Kneale.
From 2005 Edwards spent a lot of time travelling and recording music throughout Australia, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, and from 2018 he started a project scoring, performing and recording music set to the poetry of his great great grandfather John Collie.
Members
- Dave Edwards (dAdApApA, Ascension Band, The Winter, Dave Black, The Slab Septet, Confluence Quintet, The Electricka Zoo, Badger Sett, The Troubled Times, Clever Hansel, guitar / vocals)
Discography
- Scratched Surface (1998, fiffdimension)
- The Marion Flow (1999, fiffdimension)
- Live 1999 (1999, fiffdimension)
- Mantis Shaped & Worrying (2002, fiffdimension)
- After the Filmshoot (2002, fiffdimension)
- Loose Autumn Moans (2003, fiffdimension)
- Articulation Incommunicate (2004, fiffdimension)
- Gleefully Unknown 1997-2005 (compilation, 2005, fiffdimension)
- After Maths and Sciences (VIC) (as Dave Black, 2005, fiffdimension)
- After Maths and Sciences (NSW) (as Dave Black, 2006, fiffdimension)
- South Island Sessions (2006, fiffdimension)
- 처음으로 (2008, fiffdimension)
- 維度。 第一次：東亞 (2008, fiffdimension)
- Fame and Oblivion 2005 – 2012 (compilation, 2012, fiffdimension)
- ネオン列車の風景 (2012, fiffdimension)
- In a Wildflower State (2013, fiffdimension)
- Gamelan Dimensi Kelima (2015, fiffdimension)
- Ngumbang (as Dave Black, w/ Snakebeings, 2015, fiffdimension)
- Other Islands 2012-2018 (compilation, 2018, fiffdimension)
- A Ton of Feathers (as Dave Black, w/ Campbell Kneale, 2018, fiffdimension)
- Live 2019 (2019, fiffdimension)
- Ruasagavulu (as fiffdimension, with Snakebeings, 2019, fiffdimension)
- Glimpses of Utopia (as fiffdimension, 2020, fiffdimension)
- Spastic Rhythms vol1 (as fiffdimension, 2021, fiffdimension)
- Spastic Rhythms ’22 (as fiffdimension, 2022, fiffdimension)
- Nigentropic Diatribes (as fiffdimension, with James Robinson, 2022, fiffdimension)
- águas brilhantes: 2018-2022 (compilation, 2022, fiffdimension)
- Live 2023 (as fiffdimension, 2023, fiffdimension)
- Electric (yang) / Acoustic (yin) 1998-2023 (compilation, 2023, fiffdimension)
- Pems & Lyrics (in the Scottish dialect) (2024, fiffdimension)
- Pems & Lyrics (in the English dialect) (2024, fiffdimension)