The second immaculately packaged volume in Alone At Last’s new series of limited CDs, Richard Francis and Bruce Russell’s Garage Music finds itself sandwiched between Francisco López’s Untitled (2010) and Maurizio Bianchi’s Celtichants in a striking trio of début releases from this offshoot of Russia’s Monochrome Vision label.
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Since forming in Dunedin, New Zealand in the mid-1980s, in the wake of an explosion of interest in that city’s musical heritage, The Dead C — the trio of Bruce Russell, Robbie Yeats, and Michael Morley — have steadily followed their own musical path of improvisational noise and rock, releasing many great albums and...
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The summing up of a full year of any enterprise is difficult to do. Annual reports from businesses are often an exercise in self-congratulation; to me critics’ year-end lists are ubiquitous, and I have found the act of writing one to be similar to the act of holding running water in the hand–it is...
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