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!

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.

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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

122,753 views Dec 9, 2014
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.

https://ulyssa.bandcamp.com/album/my-skyscraper

Music Twitter seems to be flipping out and idk I am flipping out myself, this is magnificent

yeah pretty great!

Thanks for the heads-up 0wen--I esp like the Muppet falsetto on "Yhema" on first flip-through.

Ulyssa is an admirably ecumenically weird label IMO, so am glad to see Steven Hall's stuff coming out via them.

My other first-flip-through note would be that the drum machine on the back-to-back two longest tracks, "Fresh Feeling" and "Special Weakness", really pulls me in, but that of course is prob almost entirely attributable to twenty-two years of Calling Out Of Context worship--am just about to read the just-posted Tone Glow interview with Hall to see what add'l insight is on offer there: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-231-nirosta-steel

Ah, Arthur is in fact on drum machine on the above-noted two tracks, as per the Tone Glow interview:

"The two tracks on the album where [Arthur's] doing the drums, 'FRESH FEELING' and “SPECIAL WEAKNESS,' when we were doing the tape transfer in Orlando last year, the engineer was listening to it and said, “This guy hasn’t made a mistake!” People who are professional drummers use click tracks, and when you listen to those two tracks, they’re only one take and Arthur doesn’t skip the beat. And I’m improvising. Each track is like three or four or five songs, and every time I made a change, Arthur was right on top of it. I was thinking lately that this is how close we were—we were almost like one person at that point in terms of our rhythmic approach. We were so locked in together, and it’s mesmerizing to think about that."

oh wow

Yeah this is just blinding in its brilliance.

Thank for the heads up fgti this is fantastic

Oh he lives in San Miguel? That’s not that far from my current location lol

phenomenal stuff

A+

I just read some dumb-ass Twitter push-back against the sillier and/or more-ephemeral aspects of this album and instead of getting mad I just changed my dn and am now lying down mapping out a fantasy dissertation on this incredible thing-- I feel like I'm learning more about Arthur and his music in listening to this

the sillier and/or more-ephemeral aspects of this album

surely these are the things that make it feel adventurous and specific

anyway yes this is an amazing document. think i completely lost myself in "fresh feeling" -> "special weakness"

The word I'd personally use is queer but yeah

all synonyms :)

*big smiles*

this is amazing

yeahhhhh

this is real good.

Nirosta Steel who collaborated with Arthur Russell over the years, has a collection out of 40 years worth of songs called My Skyscraper that is getting lots of critic raves

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nirosta-steel-my-skyscraper/

As noted above