Artist · New Zealand
Bruce Russell
New Zealand experimental
Since 1960
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About
Bruce Russell (born 1960) is a New Zealand experimental musician and writer.
He is a founding member and guitarist of the noise rock trio The Dead C and the free noise combo A Handful of Dust (with Alastair Galbraith). He has released solo albums featuring guitar and tape manipulation, and has contributed articles to British music magazine The Wire.
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 favour of free-form, experimental, usually improvised sounds.
In summer of 2013, Bruce Russell's daughter Olive Russell uploaded a documentary of her father that she shot and edited herself called "27 Minutes with Mr. Noisy: A Documentary about Bruce Russell" to Vimeo.com.
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Discography
Albums
- 1995 Last Glass
- 1998 Project for a Revolution in New York
- 1999 Maximalist Mantra Music
- 1999 Sex / Machine
- 2000 Painting the Passports Brown
- 2003 Birchville Cat Motel & Bruce Russell
- 2004 Los desastres de las guerras
- 2004 Sights
- 2005 Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues
- 2006 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs
- 2007 Gilded Splinters: Tape Works 1995–2005
- 2012 Bruce Russell / Roy Montgomery
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- 2012 Dunedin
- 2012 Garage Music
- 2017 Metallic OK
- 2019 One Hand Loose
- 2019 Visceral Realists
- 2025 Dirtbox Sonatas: Kyoto and Elsewhere
- 2026 Re‐Make Re‐Model