bruce russell book

Got a new one on Slow Toe and it's a motherfucker.
Dead C'er Bruce Russell has layed down some of his
thoughts on music/noise that will rattle your skull
with German philosophers, Lorca, screws in the
fretboard, academic middle fingers, sensual/sexual
guitar amping.

This print run is limited.
24 pages. Stapled, 8.5 x 11"

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Gilded Splinters: Essays and aphorisms towards an
aesthetics of noise
(Slow Toe, 2004)

Contents:
1) What is Free?
2) On the Guitar
3) Thinking My Head to the Sky
4) Concerning the Duende
5) Contra-Fludd/Contra-Kepler

Bruce Russell has spent the last 20 years refining a
unique approach to musical practice which owes much to
more esoteric disciplines such as sound art, free
'noise' improvisation and electro-acoustic
composition. Coming from a 'rock' background, he has
broadened his interests, methods and arsenal of
techniques to include practices and approaches to
sound that have
moved him to a position outside any musical mainstream
one could care to name. At the same time he has done
much to network like-minded New Zealand artists, and
to actively promote these artists in the international
music scene. He is now a minor but firmly established
fixture in the international improvisation
underground, known both for his own work and that of
his
label, Corpus Hermeticum. He performs regularly with
the Dead C., A Handful of Dust, and as a solo artist.
He also writes criticism and theoretical essays, some
of which are compiled here.

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To buy in the States-- write check / money order for
$12 US to "MATTHEW WASCOVICH."

International orders, $15 US.

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Slow Toe Publications
P.O. Box 6592
Cleveland, Ohio 44101
USA

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