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Alastair Galbraith (born 1965) is a New Zealand musician and sound artist from
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.


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. 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 at the
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Tylee Cottage Residency The Tylee Cottage Residency is an artist-in-residence programme facilitated by the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand. The scheme began in 1986 as a partnership between the Sarjeant Gallery, the Wanganui District Council and the QEII Art ...
in
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. His subsequent album ''Orb'' includes the track 'Tylee Cottage' and a photograph of the fire organ in Whanganui's Durie Hill Elevator tunnel. In 2006, he released ''Waves and Particles'' a collaboration with Maxine Funke (The Snares) and Mike Dooley ( The Enemy,
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, 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
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. Later that year he was awarded an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award and released ''Belsayer Time'', a collaboration with
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and
Alex Neilson Alex Neilson (born 22 September 1982) is an English drummer, percussionist and singer who is based in Glasgow but grew up in Leeds. He is a founding member and main songwriter of folk-rock group Trembling Bells (2008-2018). He is also known fo ...
. In 2007, Galbraith built a treadle-powered glass harmonium and released ''orb'' a solo album on his own Nextbestway label.


Discography

''The Rip:'' * 1984 – ''
A Timeless Peace EP Alastair Galbraith (born 1965) is a New Zealand musician and sound artist from Dunedin. 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 ...
'' (NZ
Flying Nun Records Flying Nun Records is a New Zealand independent record label formed in Christchurch in 1981 by music store manager Roger Shepherd. Described by ''The Guardian'' as "one of the world's great independent labels", Flying Nun is notable for bringi ...
) * 1987 – '' Stormed Port EP'' (NZ Flying Nun Records) ''Plagal Grind:'' * 1990 – '' Plagal Grind EP'' (NZ Xpressway) ''Solo:'' ''Long Playing & Cassette'' * 1987 – '' Hurry on Down cassette'' ( Xpressway) * 1992 – ''
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'' ( Siltbreeze) * 1995 – ''
Talisman A talisman is any object ascribed with religious or magical powers intended to protect, heal, or harm individuals for whom they are made. Talismans are often portable objects carried on someone in a variety of ways, but can also be installed perm ...
'' (NZ, Next Best Way) * 1998 – '' Mirrorwork'' ( Emperor Jones) * 2000 – ''Cry'' ( Emperor Jones) * 2007 – ''Orb'' (Next Best Way) * 2010 – ''Mass'' ( Siltbreeze) (with Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and
David Kilgour David William Kilgour (February 18, 1941 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician. He also served as a senior fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Kilgour earned a degree in ...
) ''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 A camera obscura (; ) is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a aperture, small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) ...
 – 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 Richard Youngs (born 29 May 1966) is an English musician based in Glasgow since the early 1990s. His catalogue of solo and collaborative work formally begins with ''Advent'', first issued in 1990. He plays many instruments, most commonly choos ...
and
Alex Neilson Alex Neilson (born 22 September 1982) is an English drummer, percussionist and singer who is based in Glasgow but grew up in Leeds. He is a founding member and main songwriter of folk-rock group Trembling Bells (2008-2018). He is also known fo ...
 – 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 The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) 1994 (reissued on CD by No Fun Productions, 2008) * 1994 – ''The Eightness of Adam Qadmon TC'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) * 1994 – ''Musica Humana CD'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) * 1995 – ''From a Soundtrack to the Anabase of St.John Perse TC'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) 1995 (reissued on LP by Bluesilver, 2000) * 1996 – ''Now Gods, Stand Up For Bastards CD'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) 1996 (reissued on CD by No Fun Productions, 2008) * 1997 – ''Topology of a Phantom City TC'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) * 1997 – ''Spiritual Libertines CD'' (Crank Automotive) * 1998 – ''Jerusalem, Street of Graves CD'' (
Corpus Hermeticum The is a collection of 17 Greek writings whose authorship is traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. The treatises were orig ...
) * 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)


References

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