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

Alistair Galbraith