Who?The New York-based producer was a master of the cello that dabbled in everything from disco to quiet folk to traditional pop. While he toiled in obscurity before dying of AIDS in 1992, a series of new reissues have given Russell the posthumous fame he deserved while living.And I Care Because?- He's the absolute definition of eclectic. While the E word gets tossed around carelessly these da...
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I realize I'm a little late on this, but since hearing the two stunning (and previously unavailable) Arthur Russell songs recently posted to Audika Records ' myspace page, I haven't really had any desire to listen to much else. "Close My Eyes " and "Eli " will appear on Love Is Overtaking Me , an expansive collection of Russell's unreleased pop, folk, and country songs. The compilation comes...
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Love Is Overtaking Me - a compilation of tracks from Arthur Russell's archives spanning two decades and highlighting his singer-songwriter orientated material - dispalys an eclectic breadth of styles linked by a sonic playfulness and melodic insouciance. James Dalrymple reviews.
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I just replaced a copy of an old compilation I loved called "crooning on venus". A mad, beautiful compilation based on the tenuous premise: what you'd be likely to hear in a space-port waiting-lounge on venus. It's basically a bunch of well chosen tonal tracks including 'my ideal' by chet baker, amazonian throat singing, john lee at his most downbeat, john martyn, 'starsailor' by tim buckley, a...
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Join us this Wednesday at Havana for very special rendition of STUDIO! This week STUDIO! is your location for the Offical After-Party to the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 's screening of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell . After the showing of the film head down to Havana, as Pat Les Stache , H.M.A. , and Ben Cook (Rong Music) pay tribute to one of disco music's greatest pioneers' ...
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One of the films I was excited to see featured at this years Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell . The film festival, which is in it's 13th year, is showing this engaging documentary about Arthur Russell, a cellist, composer, and dance music producer during the late 1970's and early 1980's. Russell was the center piece of such classic dance so...
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Arthur Russell - "Close My Eyes" . When I think about the special light of human beings, the angels' kiss-on-the-lips, the soul or spirit that probably-doesn't-but-maybe-does hide in our chests, I think of this . The way these modest parts - a song sung plainly, a strummed guitar, - can feel as lovely as dawn, as beautiful as night, as sensuous as laying in the fields with a lover, listening to...
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Who?The New York-based producer was a master of the cello that dabbled in everything from disco to quiet folk to traditional pop. While he toiled in obscurity before dying of AIDS in 1992, a series of new reissues have given Russell the posthumous fame he deserved while living.And I Care Because?- He's the absolute definition of eclectic. While the E word gets tossed around carelessly these da...
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Arthur Russell died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992. Yet this New York composer was a true visionary, traversing dub, disco and Minimalism and anticipating the 90s obsession with musical hybrids. -David Toop"If Nick Drake had lived long enough to make records with New Order, they might have sounded something like this" - Rolling Stone Magazine
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| 1 Love Is Overtaking Me |
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| 2 Close My Eyes |
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| 3 Answers Me |
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| 4 This Is How We Walk on the Moon |
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| 5 I Couldn't Say It to Your Face |
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