A Handful of Dust – Dragging Her Wings of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994-2016 [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield The ghosts of Les Baxter

The ghosts of Les Baxter

is a character from the medieval cycle of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

so that one never knows where one will end up next

The lineup is just a trio: Robert Pollard and brother Jimmy with Tobin Sprout

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A Handful of Dust – Dragging Her Wings of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994-2016 [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield The ghosts of Les Baxter"A Handful of Dust was founded over three decades ago by two giants of the New Zealand underground, Bruce Russell (The Dead C, Xpressway, Corpus Hermeticum) and Alastair Galbraith (Plagal Grind, The Rip). Declaring their raison dtre in the now infamous Free Noise Manifesto the group has advanced a radical aesthetic; Rejecting any notion of structure or comfort theyve ground music to its sub elemental parts. A scraping and howling electricity,