Alastair Galbraith - Mass

2010 release from the New Zealand-based experimental artist. Mass is an unchartered, one-way trip through a world of ritual. Consisting of 22 tracks, this album runs the gamut from mysterious beauty to just plain mysterious. Broken guitars, percussive loops, backwards tracking, a (homemade) glass harmonium, lullabies, bagpipe thievery and the odd bit of fighting talk are just some of the many bricks laid here, with Galbraith himself as the mortar and Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and David Kilgour providing assistance here and there. Mass is an expansive whopper prepared to go anywhere and do anything to get there. Track Listing: SIDE A:
- Concentrate
- Mongolian Rhapsody
- Trees
- Richard Pearse Flying Down The Opihi River In 1903
- Poem For The Moondog
- Trees Of Albert Park
- Prime Numbers
- Bridge Of Burning Bubblegum
- Tin Town
- Kyrie Eleison
- Stolen And Broken
- Money Is So Sad
- Like The Bitter Rhind Of A Cucumber
- Bird In A Glass Forest
- Kakistocracy
- Ship's Bells Otago Museum
- Fork K
- Happy Summer
- Newborn
- Drawing Space Underwater
- Mansfield Story