Besides founding notable avant-garde New Zealand label Xpressway, not to mention his even more extreme company Corpus Hermeticum (which between them have released efforts from such musical innovators as Peter Jefferies, Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, and Flying Saucer Attack), Bruce Russell has pursued a musical career in a variety of areas, most notably the radically inventive trio the Dead C. A Handful of Dust is his equivalent of a solo project, though most of the pieces he creates feature fellow Kiwi experimentalists Alastair Galbraith, usually on violin, and p...