- Bruce Russell
Bruce Russell is a
New Zealand experimental musician.He is a founding member and guitarist of the
noise rock trioThe Dead C and thefree noise combo A Handful of Dust (withAlastair Galbraith ). He has released solo albums featuring guitar and tape manipulation.He established the
Xpressway record label, which was active from 1985 until the early 1990s, releasing mostly cassettes and a few records. Russell then founded the Corpus Hermeticum record label. Xpressway released only music by New Zealanders, usually song-based. Corpus Hermeticum releases, in contrast, may feature New Zealand or international artists, and they eschew song forms in favor of free-form, experimental, usually improvised sounds.Discography
*"Project for a Revolution in New York"
*"Maximalist Mantra Music"
*"Painting the Passports Brown"
*"Sights" (withRalf Wehowsky )
*"Birchville Cat Motel & Bruce Russell" (withBirchville Cat Motel )
*"Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues" (with Ralf Wehowsky)
*"21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs" (w.m.o/r 2006)Trivia
During his time at the
University of Otago , Bruce Russell was a member of that university's champion team in the television quiz University Challenge.Goes by the nickname Boris.
External links
* [http://www.furious.com/perfect/deadc.html Interview at Perfect Sound Forever online magazine]
* [http://www.addlimb.org/eng/pages/interviews/questionnaire/interv_Bruce_Russell.html Interview at addlimb.org]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
