A Handful Of Dust - The Drum Is The Shaman's Horse LP
With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter
Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as
the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, cello, piano, drums) and
Bruce Russell (guitar, electronics). This new set of live-to-four-track
recordings from January 2022 is the first album to be wholly recorded 'in
the studio' since 1995's Towards a Soundtrack to the 'Anabase' of St-John
Perse. Committed to tape at the Rugby Hotel in Dunedin, the four-track
recordings were played back in the room where they were made and
recorded again, this time to Android telephone, to make a digital mono
master which you hear on this record. Unadorned, brutal and sonically
austere, this new set captures the 'wild Mercury sound' for which this
long-standing unit is rightly feted among cognoscenti of the Antipodean
New Thing.
Three pieces that will pop your third eye in seconds flat. Astral travel for
now people. Duck and Sally continue their unplanned career in the
extreme abuse of the rock'n'roll toolkit. Drowned Phoenician sailors bob
disconcertingly to the surface while the captain's tower rocks to a
sustained monomachy 'twixt Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, brought back
from the grave for that specific purpose. Don't be shy - please jump out of
your window. You know you gotta trust us, when you need a friend...
Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as
the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, cello, piano, drums) and
Bruce Russell (guitar, electronics). This new set of live-to-four-track
recordings from January 2022 is the first album to be wholly recorded 'in
the studio' since 1995's Towards a Soundtrack to the 'Anabase' of St-John
Perse. Committed to tape at the Rugby Hotel in Dunedin, the four-track
recordings were played back in the room where they were made and
recorded again, this time to Android telephone, to make a digital mono
master which you hear on this record. Unadorned, brutal and sonically
austere, this new set captures the 'wild Mercury sound' for which this
long-standing unit is rightly feted among cognoscenti of the Antipodean
New Thing.
Three pieces that will pop your third eye in seconds flat. Astral travel for
now people. Duck and Sally continue their unplanned career in the
extreme abuse of the rock'n'roll toolkit. Drowned Phoenician sailors bob
disconcertingly to the surface while the captain's tower rocks to a
sustained monomachy 'twixt Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, brought back
from the grave for that specific purpose. Don't be shy - please jump out of
your window. You know you gotta trust us, when you need a friend...