A Handful of Dust - Panegyric CD (Next Best Way, 2009)
"A Handful of Dust was founded over three decades ago by two giants of the New Zealand underground, Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. 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 its sub-elemental parts." - Thin Wrist
An onslaught of extended improvised noise workouts: senseless, messy, directionless and ear-wracking...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." - Henry Lauer (Heathen Harvest)
Alastair Galbraith: glass harmonica, violin
Bruce Russell: clavioline, guitar
Recorded live at Lines Of Flight 2006