Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

he also appears on a couple of peter zummo albums ('song iv' by russell and zummo is one of my fave things ever), and on a jill kroesen album (which i love but it's hard to hear arthur).

The Peter Zummo record I have, Zummo with an X, is a must for Russell fans, I don't think he get's credit as composer, but with him playing cello and singing, it's pretty damn Arthur Russell!

finally got the World of Echo reissue today, haven't watched the DVD yet, but it's a beautiful package.

there is no ONE song, he performed in too many different styles.

I'd say two of the tracks that appear on Disco Not Disco, the 6 min edit of Kiss Me Again and Tell You Today.

It's almost unbelivable that 24/24 isn't readily available on CD. It shows that there is still a big gulf between rock reissues and those of other genres, esp. dance stuff, where it could be said that reissues are even more crucial bcz a lot of important/excellent stuff never came out on LPs in the first place.

Gee, Dan. You still owe me a trade for that Tower Of Meaning CD from a while back! *hint*

am i the only one that has (has heard) Instrumentals? it's trés boring

I think one of the pieces on instrumentals is incredibly beautiful. The rest of it isn't nearly as interesting. You know the one, if you've heard it.

There's absolutely a few cool cuts on 24-24 that didn't make it to World of, and remember that the versions of World Of are the remixes, right? The Francois K version of Go Bang vs. the 24-24 version. I have to check that these are different. I recall the album versions being looser. But there's 1 song that totally ROCKS. I'll computerize and post it sometime soon.

Don't forget to aim yr slsk or actual shopping tools at the Loft box-set for it's original version of Is It All Over My Face, recorded as a 13 min hippie disco jam.

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SD7B2S78KM280LKKQATNSBQ22

(so did 24-24 ever get a commercial release or what?)

wow this is great!

i'ven never heard arthur russell before....is it all this cool? sweet....

i ain't scurred of a lil' disco!

last two tracks are astonishing. that's two 'In the Light of a/the Miracle's now that I adore

have to admit i was very skeptical, but i have to agree with everyone in the thread. just awesome!

somewhere i have a 37 minute all the "in the light of the miracles" edited together, idk if this version is on it tho, probably not?

xxxp hell yeah, gonna make every other album released this year look like absolute shite

kate i didn't know there were that many versions

and it's on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zabD-4-0zk

holy moly the first track on that (Solo Voice and Cello live on Music for Modern Ears radio program 1986) is v similar to the version on bunny rabbit, how did i not know about this??

it's taken from this, which has him speaking on it, I'd never heard his speaking voice before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJSeHp13sQ

@maffew12, curious to know if you got into the archive and if you (or anyone else has been) thinks it is worth a visit.

ahhhh contain yr brain, yeah that's probably never been on ilx then, that's a channel i've followed for a while, don't know how i found it originally but lots of cool shit there. i used to follow matt marble's channel too, i think i must've got on an arthur russell kick at some point. i'm honestly surprised at how many people, upon finding something cool on youtube, _don't_ look to see what else is on the channel. "hillbilly leprechaun"!

imaginary follow-up

ysi?

xps it's so cool to hear his speaking voice!

PP: no, sorry. Didn't hear back from them til that afternoon. I was too late thinking of it.

fwiw they didn't seem to care about my lack of library card.

where is the reissue dammit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAroos8vQ3I

thanks---passing it along---(cough cough)---yeah

My most wanted unavailable track

Anthology Editions Announces
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life By Richard King,
Out April 16, 2024

Featuring Previously-Unseen Handwritten Letters, Scores,
Lyrics, and More Archival Rarities

“The kind of genre-busting artist who defined downtown New York City in the 1970s and ’80s.”
— The New York Times

“More relevant now than ever.” — The Washington Post

“A kind of deity.” — The New Yorker

Today, Anthology Editions announces Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life — a landmark publication celebrating the life and work of the beloved late American musician and composer Arthur Russell — written by critically acclaimed writer Richard King, to be released April 16, 2024. Travels Over Feeling paints a portrait of Arthur Russell unlike anything that has come before, revealing a true picture of one of the most distinctive and influential artists of the last 50 years. Travels Over Feeling will be published in the United Kingdom by Faber on April 18.

The book combines largely unseen visual materials—handwritten scores, lyrics, photos, letters, and drawings—pulled from Russell’s archives at the New York Public Library as well as the personal collections of close confidants with new texts by King and extensive original interviews with Arthur’s collaborators, contemporaries, family, and friends. “Uncovering the riches of Arthur’s archives was as immersive and intimate an experience as listening to his music. I have endeavored to produce a book that provides the reader with a similar sense of discovery and wonder,” says King.

Russell’s eclectic music was often marked by adventurous production choices and his unique voice, defying classification. Pitchfork has said, “his distinctive music has the rare resilience to keep growing, connecting to more and more people because of its extraordinarily contemporary, even timeless, quality.” From his pioneering compositions as part of the Downtown NYC avant-garde scene (alongside the likes of Philip Glass, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg) to his genre-expanding disco productions, from his new wave and art pop to his posthumously released folk songs, Russell crafted enduring and foundationally influential work until his premature death in 1992 from AIDS-related illnesses.

Faber will host a very special event at The Barbican in London on May 25, 2024 celebrating the life and work of Arthur Russell and the publication of Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life. Speakers Corner Quartet (bassist Peter Bennie, drummer Kwake Bass, flutist Biscuit, and violinist Raven Bush) will join forces with cellist and ambient pop artist Lucinda Chua. The evening will also feature a few special guests, yet to be announced. Tickets will go on sale on November 24 here.

Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade and Times Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (Sunday Times Music Book of the Year), The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize) and, most recently, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97, all published by Faber & Faber. He is the current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture. More information is available at richardhywelking.com.

For more information, contact:
Yuri Kwon, Jaycee Rockhold | Pitch Perfect PR – yuri at pitchperfectpr.com, jaycee at pitchperfectpr.com

Haha, what the hell is this?! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arthur-Russell-Cello-Disco-Biography-ebook/dp/B0CVV2YMZQ

maybe it's ai?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AAmanda+Geraldine&ref=kwrp_li_aut

it certainly is, I found this a few weeks back, I fucking hate people like this, stinking up Amazon even further just to make pennies.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transgressive-Echoes-Unraveled-Throbbing-Biography-ebook/dp/B0CNWFRMNR/ref=sr_1_3

these books are crazy - Print length ‏ : ‎ 26 pages - but i'm guessing it is the tip of a very large iceberg coming our way.

another great reason to never use amazon. join me

we need to flood these pages with one star reviews

this is all garbage obv, but that TG cover photo is hilarious.

If anyone wants this to listen to on-the-go I can Dropbox it. They stopped the download facility on it.

― Kat Slater Slag meme. (jed_), Thursday, October 26, 2017 6:08 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

could someone please YSI the 2017 RA podcast? Many thanks!

Here 'tis - https://we.tl/t-E11IknSSZt

thanks you rule ♥️

Something new is coming…

https://x.com/audikarecords/status/1773721038540730775?s=61&t=OIvYKs_vXneO_K6s2BAzdA

Thanks, also Maresn3st thanks for the podcast!

re the xpost new bio and Barbican, Kitty Empire's got good commentary here, mostly on Arthur and the book, hope to see sep thing on Barbican in May:

A secret hero of the dancefloor, the avant garde producer and musician Arthur Russell occupies a strange and silvery slot in the annals of music. He was a low-key cult figure in his lifetime, but one who has been increasingly celebrated. His prodigious output and his refusal to have that work pinned down has, in the decades since his death from Aids-related illness in 1992, birthed a small cottage industry of admiration and exegesis: compilations, reissues, covers albums, biographies and even a film. The Barbican in London has given over a night in May to celebrate Russell’s often confounding, genre-spanning work – and the publication of this latest account.

Barbican event info -

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/travels-over-feeling-the-music-of-arthur-russell

Anybody got the new book yet?

Glad it's offering something augmentary to and seemingly not redundant of 'Hold On To Your Dreams' and 'Buddhist Bubblegum'...

from Audika:

P.S. - A new Arthur album of previously unreleased live material has been completed. Hoping to have it released before the end of the year.

Review of xpost new bio:
https://southwestreview.com/the-kinetic-spell-of-arthur-russell/

Another review, maybe more balanced, as a book review, not just intro to/celebration of AR:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/ian-penman/nom-de-boom

As I said to friend who sent this link:

Wow! I'm no Penman expert, but this is the best piece of his that I've seen, in terms of focus, insight (re big picture and zoom lens) into the subject and the book itself, incl the challenge of keeping AR himself in sufficient focus w/o reductionism--as somebody who not only contained but extruded multitudes---also when curation of so many rich materials (on the author's part) can seem too fetishy---but overall, seems like it has yet more details that I hadn't seen before, and of course we also have (Professor and party organizer) Tim Lawrence's maybe more on-track bio, and the Wild Combination doc (with DVD extras) etc. for fun comparative studies--and an AR live comp out later this year---thanks again!

All Arthur DJ set recorded at The Barbican, London back in May.

https://soundcloud.com/twitch/jd-twitch-all-arthur-russell-dj-set-live-at-the-barbican-london-250524

Thanks so much!

This was a nice surprise. And it made me realise I need to get that Felix record which I’ve somehow overlooked.

For me, first 10 minutes often benefits a lot from visual interest---after that, music pulls me in more consistently, w for inst vocal punctuation added to singing and cello rhythms, later some good tiny variations in cello volume, w arco vibrations as well as usual picking etc.---and wau around 24 min. in

Arthur Russell - Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things A.K.A. Lost In The Meshes

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Unedited Video Footage By Phill Niblock
Music by Arthur Russell
Sound Recording: Steve Cellum

Video and Audio recorded on ¾ inch U-matic tape using a single phosphor-tube color camera. Audio additionally recorded onto PCM Digital.

Recorded at Experimental Intermedia Foundation September 22, and October 27, 1985

Music partially contained on the Arthur Russell album “WORLD OF ECHO”, Audika Records.

& visuals good all the way through, I think---as I get more and more into music---

i'm not sure how i feel about these in the light of the miracle remixes. i mean they're not bad, it just feels kinda wrong to me to stick a 4:4 beat under it

First advance track from Talking Heads box is that b-side version of "Psycho Killer" w Arthur--nice!

https://week-end.bandcamp.com/album/kiss-me-again
Kiss Me Again finally gets a reissue!

Dickhead move to effectively make it not available to buy digitally (€999). I hate vinyl-only nonsense.

It must be one of the terms of their licensing agreement with Warner or whoever owns the rights.

licensing from majors, especially Warner, is a nightmare. I'm sure this is on them. The majors have been ok with licensing out material for limited vinyl release or physical-only product, but fees associated with a more expansive release probably prohibitive.

it is, or at least was available digitally on itunes for years.

the baseball cap is tempting :)

Managed to order the cap, turned out to be easier than getting an Optimo cap ;)
Bought the 12" too, have got the og Sire release but couldn't resist remaster & liner notes!

$50 for the 12" shipped (US)? Insanity.

did anyone else go to the Wild Up performances of 24-24 music in LA? I was underwhelmed except for about 10 min about an hour in when they pulled everything back and let the music drift a bit before building back to a big finish. the rest felt brash and celebratory and lacked the mystery, mixed emotions and oddness of the recorded version

curious what others thought. the crowd was loving it.