Bruce Russell • Icestorm (2017) NZ

From Metallic OK - 2CD Set Glass Redux REDUXCD007 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, and has contributed articles to British music magazine The Wire. 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 . “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 KO; 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“ from the sleeve notes of ’Metallic OK’ by David Keenan, author of ’This Is Memorial Device’