A Handful Of Dust - The Drum Is The Shaman's Horse LP

With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member PeterStapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped asthe core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, cello, piano, drums) andBruce Russell (guitar, electronics). This new set of live-to-four-trackrecordings from January 2022 is the first album to be wholly recorded 'inthe studio' since 1995's Towards a Soundtrack to the 'Anabase' of St-JohnPerse. Committed to tape at the Rugby Hotel in Dunedin, the four-trackrecordings were played back in the room where they were made andrecorded again, this time to Android telephone, to make a digital monomaster which you hear on this record. Unadorned, brutal and sonicallyaustere, this new set captures the 'wild Mercury sound' for which thislong-standing unit is rightly feted among cognoscenti of the AntipodeanNew Thing.Three pieces that will pop your third eye in seconds flat. Astral travel fornow people. Duck and Sally continue their unplanned career in theext