Alastair Galbraith

Alastair Galbraith (born 1965) is a New Zealand musician and sound artist from Dunedin.[1][2]

Alastair Galbraith, photographed in Dunedin in 2011.

Career

Galbraith's first band was The Rip, which he formed with Robbie Muir, and Mathew Ransome and later Jeff Harford (of Bored Games). They released two EPs on the Flying Nun label. Later he formed Plagal Grind, with Robbie Muir, Jono Lonie, David Mitchell (of Goblin Mix and The 3Ds) and Peter Jefferies (of This Kind Of Punishment and Nocturnal Projections).

Galbraith's solo career has included numerous early cassettes and 7"s on Bruce Russell's (The Dead C) Xpressway label, as well as albums on labels such as Siltbreeze, Emperor Jones, Time Lag, Feel Good All Over and Table of the Elements. He has also recorded ten albums with Bruce Russell under the name A Handful of Dust.[3] In 1999, he began a collaboration with Matt De Gennaro when the two toured New Zealand Public Art Galleries converting them into giant soundboxes by stroking tensioned wires fixed to the buildings' structural supports. In 2002, he designed and built a glass-tube fire organ, during an arts residency in Whanganui. In 2006, he released Waves and Particles a collaboration with Maxine Funke (The Snares) and Mike Dooley (The Enemy, Toy Love, Snapper) as The Hundred Dollar Band. There was also the release of Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol. 2 and the reissue of his early albums Morse/Gaudylight and Talisman by U.S. label Table of the Elements. Later that year he was awarded an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award and released Belsayer Time, a collaboration with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson. In 2007, Galbraith built a treadle-powered glass harmonium and released orb a solo album on his own Nextbestway label.[4]

Discography

The Rip:

Plagal Grind:

Solo:

Long Playng & Cassette

Singles & EPs

  • 1989 Timebomb – 7" with Graeme Jefferies Xpressway – X/WAY 10
  • 1991 Gaudylight – EP 7" Siltbreeze – SB07
  • 1994 Cluster – EP 7" Ger. Raffmond  – RAFF 006-7
  • 1994 Intro Version – EP 7" Roof Bolt – RB001
  • 1995 Orange Raja, Blood Royal – 7" – Walt Records – Walt 005
  • 1995 Tae Keening – EP 77" with Demarnia Lloyd – Roof Bolt – RB003
  • 1996 – Split EP with Minimum Chips – 7" – Varispeed – VS02
  • 1997 Rivulets – EP 7" Camera Obscura – CAM 004S
  • 1998 Wire Music – EP with Matt de Gennaro – Corpus Hermeticum – Hermes031
  • 1998 Black Forest – EP – with Robert Scott
  • 1998 Me & Gus – 7" – with Pip Proud – Emperor Jones – ej18
  • 1999 Orbital – 7" – Crawlspace Records – SPACE 007
  • 1999 Two Wires Violin Loop – EP – with Matt De Gennaro
  • 2000 Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol. 1 – EP with Matt De Gennaro – Emperor Jones – ej39cd
  • 2003 Radiant (with Constantine Karlis) (Emperor Jones)
  • 2006 Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol. 2 – EP with Matt De Gennaro – Xeric – XER-CD-103
  • 2006 Belsayer Time EP with Richard Youngs and Alex Neilson Time-Lag – Time-Lag 034
  • 2010 Endless Black – EP – self-released
  • 2010 Dances for the Blind Owl – EP – La Station Radar – fake tape serie #15
  • 2011 Untitled 1–3 – 7" – Split EP with William Tyler

Compilations

  • 1993 Seely Girn Feel Good All Over – fgao #14

A Handful of Dust (with Bruce Russell and Peter Stapleton):

  • 1993 Concord LP (Twisted Village)
  • 1994 The Philosophick Mercury CD (Corpus Hermeticum) 1994 (reissued on CD by No Fun Productions, 2008)
  • 1994 The Eightness of Adam Qadmon TC (Corpus Hermeticum)
  • 1994 Musica Humana CD (Corpus Hermeticum)
  • 1995 From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of St.John Perse TC (Corpus Hermeticum) 1995 (reissued on LP by Bluesilver, 2000)
  • 1996 Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards CD (Corpus Hermeticum) 1996 (reissued on CD by No Fun Productions, 2008)
  • 1997 Topology of a Phantom City TC (Corpus Hermeticum)
  • 1997 Spiritual Libertines CD (Crank Automotive)
  • 1998 Jerusalem, Street of Graves CD (Corpus Hermeticum)
  • 2002 For Patti Smith CD (FreewaySound)
  • 2009 Panegyric (Next Best Way)

The Hundred Dollar Band (with Maxine Funke and Mike Dooley):

  • 2006 Waves and Particles (Emperor Jones)

[5]

References

  1. Ankeny, Jason. "Biography: Alastair Galbraith". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 December 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  2. "Alastair Galbraith". The Arts Foundation. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  3. "Alastair Galbraith Unveils New Album 'Seconds Mark III'". UnderTheRadarNZ. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  4. Benson, Nigel (31 July 2008). "Sounds like art". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. "Alastair Galbraith Discography at Discogs". discogs. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
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