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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: You Traffic Not In A Salt More Strong Than This (From A Soundtrack To The Anabase of St-John Perse) Format: LP Label: Bluesilver Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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2000 LP originally released on cassette in 1995 by Corpus Hermeticum. AHOD is BRUCE RUSSELL and ALASTAIR GALBRAITH. Edition of 300.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Musica Humana Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"Corpus Hermeticum is Bruce (Xpressway, Dead C) Russells label. Handful of Dust is a free-noise group mainly made up of Russell and Alastair Galbraith (Peter Stapleton also appears on drums sometimes). Subtitled "Collected Works 1990-93", this is a compilation of all previously available material, including the now o/p Concord LP & "A Little Aesthetic Discourse" 7" on Twisted Village, plus various comp tracks. Also includes volume 2 of Bruces magazine of philosophy, music and culture-critique: Logopandocy: The Journal of Vain Erudition." - FE.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Spiritual Libertines Format: CD Label: Crank Automotive Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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A Handful of Dust = Bruce Russell (Dead C), Alastair Galbraith (The Rip, Plagal Grind), and occasionally Peter Stapleton (Dadamah, Pin Group, Scorched Earth Policy, Terminals, Victor Dimisich Band, etc..) "A Handful Of Dust 1994-95. Compiling pieces from the Anabase and Qadmon cassettes, the Three Dances single and previously unreleased trio material." -Crank Automotive. Small stash of this out of print, 1996 release.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: For Patti Smith Format: CD Label: Freewaysound Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"A Handful of Dust are a duo [and occasionally a trio] of New Zealand improvising noise artists. In 1993 they fired an early blast in the so-called free noise barrage heard round the world, with the recording of the no-fingers-on-the-strings opus Concord. 24 October 1999 found them playing live at the Puntersí Club, Melbourne, Australia, recorded by Marco Fusinato and mixed live by Greg Wadley. The resulting two long tracks of beautiful sonic violence were dedicated to the Queen of post-jazz rock improv Rimbaudian sense-derangement herself, and titled I Am Gods Finger and [From a Soundtrack to] Babelfield. They feature Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith performing a mix of guitar, violin, long wires and electronics. No stone is left unrotated, no rock left un-detourned in this top-of-their-game sizzling sound-smash. This tag-team of post-everything sound improvisers cant be easily beaten at the spontaneous improvisation of soundworlds which leave the senses literally grasping at straws." - Freewaysound.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of St-John Perse Format: Cass Label: Imminent Frequencies Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"A Handful of Dust is the duo of New Zealand noisemakers Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Incorporating elements of drone, spoken word, minimalism, improvisation and utilizing everything from violin to toy telephone, The Dust crafts a genuinely unique style of free-form music. “From A Soundtrack To The Anabase Of St-John Perse” a tape originally released via Russell’s own Corpus Hermeticum imprint nearly two decades ago finds the duo under the influence of the 1924 poem of the same name and at the height of their creative experimentation." - Imminent Frequencies.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Panegyric Format: CDR Label: Nextbestway Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "An onslaught of extended improvised noise workouts: senseless,messy,directionless and ear-wracking.... for improvisation to be a risk the performers need to be striving for a vision, need to be striving to take us somewhere. On these recordings however it doesnt sound like any striving is going on at all. This sort of self-indulgent,directionless improvisation irritates me not for its rejection of structural convention,or its grating timbre,but because of the self-satisfied absence of ambition it embodies. I cannot help but feel swindled - I can hear no passion, no giving, no magic, no sharing, no dynamics, no vulnerability. Just the air-tight armour of arrogance. Im sure the band members are marvellous people personally: but musically this is obnoxious and not in a good way" - Henry Lauer/ Heathen Harvest. Alastair Galbraith: glass harmonica, violin; Bruce Russell: clavioline, guitar. Recorded live at Lines Of Flight 2006. |
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards & The Philosophick Mercury Format: Double CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards/The Philosophik Mercury is a double-disc re-issue of two limited and long out-of-print works by this obscure enigma. Plunging straight into the chasm of ultra-minimalist abrasion and chaotic improv, these two records stand as unrelenting and engrossing epics of guitar feedback, disintegrating electronic sound, string-shredding violin abuse, and other facets of impassioned iconoclasm. Recommended for lovers of AMM, Henry Flynt, and Hijokaidan. A Handful of Dust are a group consisting of a core duo of Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1990." -No Fun |
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: In The House Of Voluntary Poverty Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $3.00 |
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Bruce Russell: bowed guitar, farfisa; Alastair Galbraith: bagpipe chanter, clavioline; Peter Stapleton: percussion. Recorded 8 April 1994.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: A Little Aesthetic Discourse Format: 7" Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Bruce Russell of the Dead C. 1992 release.
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