Name Bruce Russell Organizations founded Xpressway | Role Musician | |
Music groups The Dead C, A Handful of Dust Albums Project for a Revolutio, Harsh 70s Reality, Trapdoor Fucking Exit, Tusk, DR503 Similar People Alastair Galbraith, Birchville Cat Motel, Ralf Wehowsky | ||
Bruce Russell (born 1960) is a New Zealand experimental musician and writer.
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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 favor 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.
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.
During the South African Springbok rugby team's controversial 1981 tour of New Zealand, Russell received two police convictions as a student leader of protests against the tour.
For a period Russell worked as an archivist in Radio New Zealand's Sound Archives.
Russell climbed Mount Fuji for a retired librarians charity 1994.
Discography
Songs
Drillbit
Max Harris
Bad Politics
I Love This
The Wheel
Three Years
Last Glass
Speed Kills
Mutterline
Logopandocy
Hell Is Now Love
Call Back Your Dogs
I Was Here
Now I Fall
Glass Hole Pit
Alien to Be
Phantom Power
Scarey Nest
Envelopment
Bumtoe
Suffer Bomb Damage
This Map
There Is Something to Be Gained
Mighty
Driver UFO
Mansions
The AMM Of Punk Rock
Los Desastres de las Guerras
Courage
Fake Electronics
Pussyfooting
Calling Slowly