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Dunedin, New Zealand

Alastair Galbraith is a musician from Dunedin, New Zealand.

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 and David Mitchell (of Goblin Mix and The 3Ds) and Peter Jefferies of This Kind Of Punishmnent and Nocturnal Projections.

Galbraith’s solo career has included numerous early cassettes and 7”s on Bruce Russell’s 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, where 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 Wanganui.

In 2006, he released “Waves and Particles” a collaboration with his partner Maxine Funke (The Snares) and Mike Dooley (The Enemy, Toy Love) as The Hundred Dollar Band. There was also the release of Volume 2 of “Long Wires In Dark Museums”, 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.
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  • icedoutbarthes wrote:
    November 2011
    you were a tree

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  • poeq wrote:
    October 2011
    kiwi musac.

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  • BallerCraig wrote:
    July 2011
    From Seth Fire To Flames who did not listen a so amazing and enigmatic music… this one remembers or warns to us that a unknown dimension exists, a wild footpath parallel to " realidad" that aside from influencing mysteriously in our lives it calls to us once in a while to undress to us of the clothes of the civilization. However, for me this true jump to the abyss that proposes its music is reflected better in its Cry album that in the most known Mirrorwork, since it back lets the fragmentation sonorous of the second to privilege the composition of tiny deeply mystical and instrospectivas songs. These really are blowings of life for tired souls. Alastair thanks from the Earth antipodals.

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  • whitebicycle wrote:
    September 2010
    twenty miles of rainbow

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  • hljott wrote:
    November 2009
    indie rock? wtf?

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  • Treason_is_bad wrote:
    August 2009
    Ah, I get it... New Zealand's bird is the kiwi.

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  • ArboldeFuego wrote:
    November 2008
    Desde Set Fire To Flames que no escuchaba una música tan asombrosa y enigmática... ésta nos recuerda o advierte que existe una dimensión desconocida, una senda salvaje paralela a la "realidad" que aparte de influir misteriosamente en nuestras vidas nos llama cada cierto tiempo para despojarnos de los ropajes de la civilización. Ahora bien, para mí este verdadero salto al abismo que propone su música queda mejor reflejado en su álbum Cry que en el más conocido Mirrorwork, ya que deja atrás la fragmentación sonora del segundo para privilegiar la composición de diminutas canciones profundamente místicas e instrospectivas. Éstas de verdad son soplos de vida para almas cansadas. Gracias Alastair desde las antípodas de la Tierra.

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  • Grindfucked wrote:
    November 2008
    Mirrorwork sounds really good.

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  • fat_fleshy_fingers wrote:
    July 2008
    mirrorwork is fantastic

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  • iluvtheclean wrote:
    January 2007
    yeah, right on eutherian! Kim Hill from Radio New Zealand interviewed Alastair on the 11 November 2006 - brilliant interview; it's worth tracking down.

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  • eutherian wrote:
    November 2006
    hurrah for Alastair getting the $50,000 NZ Laureate award!

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endless black a new 20 minute e.p. = $3.50

2 Dec 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/alastairgalbraithplagalgrindtherip

nearly finished with nextbestwaybecause I'm moving onto BANDCAMPway easier and cheaper to run!here's a link to my my new e.p. endless blackhttp://alastairgalbraith.bandcamp.com/track/endless-black

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