Bruce Russell – Circuits of Omission [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage recording extensively with the Brotherhood

recording extensively with the Brotherhood of Breath and eventually releasing LPs under his own leadership before his untimely passing in 1990 at the age of 51

or Förlag För Fri Musik’s stock-in-trade

28’14climate 1 / transit 1 / landscape 1 / climat 2 / landscape 2 / transit 2 / landscape 3 (walking – jumping – sliding – flying) / climate 3 / landscape 4 / climate 4 - transit 3 / landscape 4

aims to rescue the best of this music from historical oblivion

In an essay on the subject of the syncretic nature shared between musical expression and body-motion in reference to Aristides Quintilianus’ De Musica

Bruce Russell – Circuits of Omission [LP] Musique Concrète / Sound Collage recording extensively with the Brotherhood"Herewith is an extraordinary 45 RPM album of solo electronic music by NZ's great contrarian, Bruce Russell. The pieces were all created using machines built by Clinton Williams, whose musical work under the OMIT moniker has long been championed by Bruce. Unlike many of Williams's own recordings, which contain kosmiche extensions recalling the '70s work of Klaus Schulze, the 15 improvised Sonatas presented here mix a few of those sorts of sonorities