Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

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'...