Bruce Russell & Luke Wood -Visceral Realists -Vhf LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Via Suez

1.2 Bentonia

1.3 Large Diaphragm

1.4 Custom Castanets

1.5 Wake Up, Dead Man

1.6 Oh, Caroline

1.7 Etonian

1.8 Mobile Index

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Visceral Realists by Bruce & Luke Wood Russell, released 7 June 2019, includes the following tracks: "Large Diaphragm", "Wake Up, Dead Man", "Etonian" and more. This version of Visceral Realists comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. -

Debut album by the New Zealand duo of Bruce Russell (Dead C, Handful Of Dust, etc) and Luke Wood. Visceral Realists is a high-concept commentary on the state of vinyl, analogue recording, music culture, art, etc. A 45-rpm bullet of short bursts of free electric sound, the music here is tactile and rough but not "noise music." Russell and Wood play over loops of scratchy records, with their guitars and electronics surging to get over the wall. Russell's guitar sound from his vintage transistor amp and anti-style is instantly recognizable from countless classic Dead C sides, but the tracks are more painterly than recent DC epics-these are celebratory vignettes of thoughts-singles, if you will. Originally made as an unfindable edition of twenty by Wood's Ilam Press label to accompany an exhibit of NZ lathe-cut records, this new edition is beautifully packaged in a debossed and letterpress printed sleeve designed by Wood and printed by Stumptown in Portland. Two color risographs printed by Wood in NZ are tipped onto the jacket, and an additional two inserts provide revelatory notes by Russell and glam shots of the instruments that made the sounds. Also includes download slip."There's more information encoded in an old record than in a new one. Every crack, every pop, a tree ring of recovered time. A life-time. Time again for life. Like the revenants, come from the grave warm; and once again walking. But still just blood in a bag. The glow of the vacuum at the heart of a market-place-where art goes to fetch bread. That is how we've warmed our hands for this work. To know we are alive." -Bruce Russell

Re-release of original limited edition lathe-cut put out in an edition of 20 in 2017 by Ilam Press Records (Christchurch, NZ). Recorded, mixed, and mastered to 1/4" tape at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in September 2017. Includes download card.

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VHF146

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