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A Handful of Dust was founded over three decades ago by two giants of the New Zealand underground, Bruce Russell (The Dead C, Xpressway, Corpus Hermeticum) and Alastair Galbraith (Plagal Grind, The Rip).
Declaring their raison d’être in the now infamous Free Noise Manifesto the group has advanced a radical aesthetic; Rejecting any notion of structure or comfort they’ve ground music to it’s sub-elemental parts. A scraping and howling electricity, spontaneous, unrestrained, physical.
i) Being beyond “music,” it is noise.
ii) Being beyond “rules,” it is free.
Dragging Her Wings of Rusty Knives contains expanded and unreleased works spanning the group’s history including their first studio recordings since 1995 and new writings, a late coda to The Journal of Vain Erudition, Logopandocy.
Alastair Galbraith: Violin, Guitar, Clavioline, Glass Harmonica, Keyboard
Bruce Russell: Guitar, Farfisa, Clavioline
Peter Stapelton: Percussion (1i, 2iii)
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Alastair Galbraith, violon, guitare, clavioline, glass harmonica, clavier. Bruce Russell, guitare, farfisa, clavioline. Plus Peter Stapelton, percussion sur deux morceaux. Un double album qui témoigne de ce duo néo-zélandais plus que libre, rejetant toute forme de structure au profit d’une situation sonore où l’électrique hurle une volonté de décaper toute idée préconçue. A Handful of Dust ou la traduction de la rouille et du cambouis sonores. Sélection d’enregistrements réalisés entre 1994 et 2016.
Mastering signé Lasse Marhaug.