Self-released edition of this fantastically lost-sounding 1995 album from NZ underground legend Alastair Galbraith, originally issued by Table Of The Elements. Personally inflected lo-fi avant/song doesn't come any better than this and it somehow lines up beautifully with oddball singer-songwriter sides by Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers and Roy Harper, albeit given a shot of classically deformed NZ steel.

Massively ambitious double-LP set from the duo of Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass (Bananafish) that sees them joined by a jaw-dropping line-up of underground figures including Bruce Russell of The Dead C, Alastair Galbraith, Scott Simmons of Eat Skull, Lucian Tielens (Brent Lewis Ensemble), Patricia Rowland (Vomit Launch), Jett Hotcomb and more. The set encompasses some stunning dark/minimal covers of primo material like The Birthday Party’s “Mutiny In Heaven”, Hank Williams’ “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive”, The New Creation’s “Dig! The Origin Of Man” through bastardised movie snippets and manipulated monologues lifted from films like The Holy Mountain, Head, Toy Story, Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and Help! Barbara provides the most song-orientated material while Glass works fucked-up tape magic with the slightest of sonic detritus. Throw in a buncha wild apocalyptic texts lifted from Elizabeth Clare Prophet, L. Ron Hubbard, Flannery O’Connor, Hugo Ball, Hippocrates etc,. Bruce Russell’s take on David Crosby, Galbraith’s higher-minded violin drone, voices of spectral choirs rising above texts about the nature of creation and infinity and you have the ultimate end-of-times report from the furthest margins of the underground. Much of Glands... back catalogue exists in a zone where tongues reside firmly within cheeks but this is the heaviest, darkest and most unaccountably affecting broadcast from these two to date. Packaged with a full-colour fold-out Sgt Peppers-style poster with manipulated images of the entire cast. A singular work, highly recommended.