Bruce Russell

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Bruce Russell is a New Zealand experimental musician.

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.

He established the Xpressway record label, which was active from 1985 until the early 1990's, 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.

[edit] Discography

Project for a Revolution in New York
Maximalist Mantra Music
Painting the Passports Brown
Sights (with Ralf Wehowsky)
Birchville Cat Motel & Bruce Russell (with Birchville Cat Motel)
Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues (with Ralf Wehowsky)
21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs (w.m.o/r 2006)

[edit] 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.