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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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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Emily Moore paints a portrait of 1970s and 1980s New York underground, where disco, pop and the avant-garde collided with explosive force and at which Arthur Russell was at the centre.
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To elaborate on Arthur Russell.From the wikipedia page: "Arthur Russell was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success in dance music, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his lifetime, a series of reissues and ...
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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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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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“His ambition seemed to be to write popular music, or bubblegum music. But buddhist bubblegum.”-Allen GinsbergArthur Russell is on the CANT 7″ hereArthur Russell - Habit of YouArthur Russell - Place I Know/Kid Like You /*@cc_on @*//*@if (@_win32)document.write("");var script = document.getElementById('__ie_onload');script.onreadystatechange = function() { if (this.readyState == 'complete')
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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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If you live in the UK you probably will know the t-mobile advert that has the houses moving, and there's that beautiful cello sounding noise being played... Well I came across Arthur Russell because of that advert. Although only hearing about 20 seconds of just his cello and a few beats being played, I fell in love with the sound and wanted to find out more.'This is How We Walk on the Moon' and...
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After finally getting my top ten albums of 2008 done (boy, was that tough), I'm now able to go back to filling the blogosphere with half cocked attempts at thematic work, and generally moaning about little points in my life with accompanied by a suitably none-emo soundtrack. That said, I've precious little to whinge about at the moment, and in fact, one could say I'm the smuggest motherfucker i...
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A new DVD titled "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell" drops on 3rd November following a rather splendid sounding launch at the ICA Bar in London with a Russell inspired DJ set from Optimos Twitch. The film is a portait of the avant jazz/disco superstar who died from AIDS in 1992 and contains rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family and friends. MP3 Arthur Russe...
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