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<p align="left" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 100%;"><font size="4" face="Arial">"Derek Bailey on acid!"</font></p>
<p align="left" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 100%;"><em><font size="4" face="Arial">- Anthony Donaldson, Primitive Art Group</font></em></p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Instrumental improvisations from Wellington, New Zealand, 2003. Builds from acoustic intimacy around the winter fireplace to the Fushitsusha-esque electric blizzard climax of 'Parataxes 9'.<br />
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong>Mike Kingston</strong> - cello, electronic composition (1,4,7), electric guitar (2), acoustic guitar and slide whistle (8)</p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong>Dave Edwards</strong> - acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica</p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong>Simon Sweetman</strong> - drums and percussion</p>
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<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000">"The Winter are a Wellington based improvising trio, and Parataxes is their 1st release. It documents both acoustic and electric live sets that drift from eastern sounding cello led pieces to fairly extreme feed-backy noise. A key member of the group is Wellington's master of pseudo-autistic intensity, Dave Edwards, whose guitar and harmonica work definitely moves the whole into a fairly edgy sphere. Over such a duration this can make pretty harrowing listening, but sometimes such immersions are worth it."</font></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="#000000"><em>- Antony Milton, Pseudoarcana</em></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"> "A strange sonic brew that includes dissonant rock textures, rough outsider folk-blues mysteries, electric and acoustic improvisations and a considerable part of tasty feedback. Imagine equal parts Derek Bailey, New Zealand's Pumice and classic '60s blues/folk and you're in the right ballpark."</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">"I can be pretty naive sometimes, and I often forget that it actually<br />
gets cold in New Zealand. For many of us Americans, we think of New<br />
Zealand as being somewhat tropical. It's an island after all, and we<br />
are brought up believing that islands are exotic places that exist in<br />
the middle of the warm oceans. This is obviously a mistake. Although I<br />
still forget that the seasons are opposite in the Southern hemisphere,<br />
the existence of dreary weather in New Zealand is cemented in my mind.<br />
A great deal of experimental music from New Zealand has a distinctly<br />
desolate, overcast feeling to it.<br />
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"Appropriately named, The Winter hail from Wellington, New Zealand.<br />
Most of you probably associate Wellington with the brilliant Pseudo<br />
Arcana label, and keeping that sound in mind, The Winter offer up over<br />
an hour of freeform aural explorations. These loose improvisations<br />
range from processed field recordings to gritty blues dirges to<br />
no-wave skronk. This trio consists of Simon Sweetman on drums and<br />
percussion, San Shimla on cello, and Dave Edwards, whose great solo<br />
albums have been circulating for years, on guitar and harmonica. All<br />
three artists have a firm grasp of their respective instruments and<br />
employ their talents well throughout "Parataxes."<br />
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"One thing I enjoy most about this record is Edward's playing. On the<br />
second track, the highlight is when he gets into a real groove with<br />
his guitar and harmonica. The two complement each other perfectly, and<br />
it has this 1960s folk feel to it that somehow doesn't seem out of<br />
place. As Sweetman joins in using various metallic percussive<br />
instruments, the two start playing off each other. Their interaction<br />
is impressive, and adds a vague sense of structure to this otherwise<br />
scattered piece. I love when long improv sessions flow like a wave. At<br />
times, they're completely disjointed, but during rare moments<br />
everything seems to come together. These last few minutes of the<br />
second piece on "Parataxes" is one of those. It's excellent.<br />
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"Most of "Parataxes" is similar to the second track. Throughout long,<br />
meandering jams, the trio searches through musty fog, searching out<br />
common ground. As if in queue, they find each other, transfixed in the<br />
middle somewhere. During the times when it all comes together, this is<br />
as choice as any freeform improvisations I've heard in months.<br />
However, these tracks wouldn't this good if it weren't for the journey<br />
toward a collective state of mind. It might be all about the end<br />
result, but the means of getting there is just as important.<br />
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"The only complaint I have about "Parataxes" is that there is too much<br />
of it. At 70 minutes, this album would have worked better at about 50.<br />
That's not to say that most of the tracks aren't very good, because<br />
they are. However, this is anything but easily listenable music, and<br />
it's a task to take this in all the way through. But in the end, The<br />
Winter leave their mark. They soundtrack the devolution of autumn into<br />
the coldest, cruelest of months. Using sparse sounds and sometimes<br />
harsh instrumentation, "Parataxes" is all about finding the moment and<br />
maintaining it for as long as possible. Recommended."</font></p>
<p align="left"><em><font size="2" face="Arial">- Brad E. Rose, Foxy Digitalis</font></em></p>
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<p align="left"><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><em>For photos and more info see <br />
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<p align="left"><strong><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><em>www.fiffdimension.co.nz/thewinter.htm</em></font></font></strong></p>
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