Bruce Russell
Metallic Ok (2CD)
Format2CDLabelGlass ReduxGenreExperimental
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Bruce Russell is a New Zealand experimental musician and writer. He is a founding member and guitarist of the seminal 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. "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. "This will be alien music to many listeners. Guitars tuned to the occult settings of revenants like Skip James and then played with a knife in an uncanny re-contextualising of the sound of beer bottles against guitar strings on the original Metallic K.O.; massively deformed electronics that sound like swarms of static, that sound like the needle eating the vinyl; radio interference; broke down piano; sledgehammer fuzz… this is the sound of taking a live Stooges meltdown as the keys to the goddamn kingdom and as a secret intimation of the arc of the future. Now here it is" Taken from the sleevenotes of 'Metallic OK' by David Keenan, author of 'This Is Memorial Device'.
Release notes
Guitar tuning on 2.1 courtesy of Skip James Tracks 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2 recorded by BR at the Temple of Music, Lyttelton, NZ 2008-12 Track 1.1 recorded live at the Auricle, Christchurch, NZ by Malcolm Riddoch 6 Dec 2013. Track 1.3 recorded live at Naval Point Yacht Club, Lyttelton NZ by Peter Vangioni, 10 Jun 2011. Track 2.3 recorded live at El Santo, Lyttelton, NZ by BR, 20 Nov 2010. Mastered by John A. Rivers at WSRS, Leamington Spa UK, 2017. 6 panel card sleeve.
| 1-1 | Back Of A Knife Blues | 20:26 | |
| 1-2 | Icestorm (Just Another Pleasant Valley Sunday) | 3:51 | |
| 1-3 | Khe Sanh '68 (For Bird) | 5:40 | |
| 1-4 | Electro-magnetic Feedback Study #1 (Strange House In The Snow) | 13:51 | |
| 2-1 | Woodchopping (Way On Up, Till The Sun Go Down) | 16:24 | |
| 2-2 | Birdling (Waharoa) | 5:09 | |
| 2-3 | Excerpt From 'Motorboating' | 21:46 |
- Bruce Russell
- Guitar, Piano, Other [Tomahawk, Radio, Surf Beach], Electronics [Electronic Devices], Recorded By (1-2, 1-4 to 2-3), Sounds, Engineer, Photography
- John A. Rivers
- Mastered By
- Malcolm Riddoch
- Recorded By (1-1)
- Peter Vangioni
- Recorded By (1-3)
