Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

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Reminder that 'Wild Combination' sees DVD release Nov. 18th (tomorrow) in the US (apparently already released on the 4th in Europe).

I'm excited to watch it again. And I hope people aren't missing out on 'Love is Overtaking Me,' haven't seen as much press this time around. Haven't listened to it in a week, yet I still have five or six tracks on stuck-in-my-head-got-me-singing rotation. The blue-eyed-soul stuff with the brass arrangements in the middle remain especially devestating.

cool! did not know this was going to be on DVD so soon. and yeah, i really need to order the new one.

I'm receiving it via Netflix tomorrow.

I find myself drawn to 'Love Is Overtaking Me' every single day since I got it. So much beauty in there. Will definitely get the DVD.

this is interesting but also a total tease! http://dustedmagazine.com/features/778
i respect that audika isn't just throwing every last thing out there, regardless of quality, but some of that stuff sounds fascinating!

The documentary is lovely.

I need to get in touch with Mr. Knutson. Meet up with him in NYC one day, get him really drunk, convince him to make me a few DVD-Rs worth of unreleased material.

Truly, I wouldn't even leak it. I'd just be made a much happier man.

KATE! I've been touched by the Lord. I don't need you anymore!!

...favorite song at the moment along w/ "I couldn't say it to your face."

yeah what the hell is the point of that dusted feature. worst listed EVER, unless the tracks are available of course :)

which they aren't

I find that list rather refreshing in this age of instant gratification.

the worst part is "...you will NEVER hear".

why the hell not?

Because he has all the access. So what? At least you got to hear ANY Arthur Russell.

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem like this comp is gathering quite the attention in press that the previous reissues/compilations got? I was so happy when Russell started getting any attention at all--guess I can't be greedy. But this one would seem an even easier sell for the general listener, no?

I am loving it. I'm not sure if what you are talking about is true or not. So, turn some people on to it. I know I will play "The Letter" on my next radio show.

arthur russells singing is so bad - what a dik

i mean cause like his music is otherwise so great

Because he has all the access. So what? At least you got to hear ANY Arthur Russell.

b-b-but if they're that great, why not set them free, rather than blathering about it on the internet?

They aren't that great! Did you read the descriptions? Arthur is RAPPING on a track. So what, maybe this guy is just bragging about all the music he gets to hear that no one else has access to. Just the idea that no one else has that access is kind of novel to me, at this point, since everything is just one illegal download away.

arthur russells singing is so bad - what a dik

i mean cause like his music is otherwise so great

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:28 AM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf who thinks this??? icey u crazy

IM LEARNING TO TROLL

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b-b-but if they're that great, why not set them free, rather than blathering about it on the internet?

I just saw the documentary last week and I thought it was very good and very interesting. But it left me wondering about what his personality was like, how he was socially, that kind of thing. The S.F. tape in the extras on the DVD where he speaks was kinda neat, though.

Just when you think you know everything about Arthur Russell...

just kidding, I never thought that, but this one had slipped by me. The Death of Don Juan, an Opera in Two Acts by Elodie Lauten featuring cello and vocals by Arthur. Zummo's on it as well. I purchased it from iTunes and it's really fantastic. Alan Licht apparently gave it props on the 3rd edition of his minimalism top 10. It's some serious post-minimalist stuff, ranging from catchy Reich/Glass style stuff done on a Fairlight to more meditative and droney bits. Echoes of Riley and Meredith Monk as well. Really great stuff.

yeah; nice headphone listening while bopping around the streets. arthur's cello sounds great, and blends really well, but some of my favourite stuff on there's i guess the minimalist bits you mention, without him.

Love Is Overtaking Me made my Pazz & Jop and Nashville Scene lists, and I posted some about it on Rolling Country (in the Comments section of my Scene ballot)(had to put it in Reissues because that ballot includes even prev. unreleased music as Reissues:"any album on which at least fifty percent of the music was recorded at least five years ago").I did have to listen to it more than once to get into it, but second time's the charm. The DVD has a very unusually good balance of talk and music, and the imagery, pace of edits, etc. is very musical too, plus good bonuses.

April 4, 2009
The Music of Arthur Russell
An evening of the composer's vocal, instrumental, and dance music
Co-presented with Justine D. and boomBOOM Presents
Le Poisson Rouge / 10pm doors / 10:30pm show

i remember hearing that there was a performance of the instrumentals at the kitchen before the film came out. so might be interesting.

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/345578-01.htm

also on cd.

good for the arthur completist though the packaging could have been better.

it's a delight to finally hear the 12.26 walter gibbon's mix of "go bang!" although now i have i'm a little glad i didn't part with the $200 some japanese dealer was asking for a bootleg 12" of it a few years back.

brilliant. are those the same versions of treehouse/schoolbell from the soul jazz comp?

Is Love is Overtaking Me worth purchasing, or not? I quite like World of Echo, but some of the comparisons in this thread scare me.

I'm not convinced of his genius yet, but LIOM forced me to reconsider him. Such warm, friendly music. Nothing great, but a perfect morning soundtrack.

He makes me sad in a way, because though I believe he was capable of some incredibly brilliant, unique stuff (World of Echo for starters) but he has also done a lot of music that has left me disappointed or scratching my head. I guess it's a good thing he was so prolific.

love is overtaking me = james taylor

some of it's real good though, and it oscillates between totally fully formed stuff - like real ensemble pieces - and scruffier demos. some of it's as classic as everything else though.

bimble, it's probably worth remembering that a lot of that music wasn't finished, so it's hard to judge him for that. Like some of this stuff he knew would leave you scratching your head, and he didn't finish it, and it never came out, so we can't really knock him for that!

James Taylor my ass. None of that methadone noblesse here, if that's what you meant. Young AR's always always reflective, but always observant, always moving (eventually into Talking Heads-type territory)

so, stirmonster's link in that post isn't working for me, so i'm just going to post the tracklist here so we all know how awesome this is...

Arthur Russell - The Sleeping Bag Sessions

01 - Bonzo Goes To Washington - 5 Minutes (B-B-B Bombing Mix)
02 - Felix - Tiger Stripes (Extended Version)
03 - Felix - You Can't Hold Me Down (Extended Version)
04 - Clandestine feat. Ned Sublette - Radio Rhythm (S-I-G-N-A-L-S-M-A-R-T) (Extra Cheese Mix)
05 - Sounds Of JHS 126 Brooklyn - Chill Pill (Underwater Mix)
06 - Indian Ocean - School Bell/Tree House (Original 12" Version)
07 - Indian Ocean - Treehouse (Extended Bootleg Edit)
08 - Dinosaur L - Go Bang! (Walter Gibbons Mix)
09 - Bonzo Goes To Washington - 5 Minutes (R-R-R Radio Mix)
10 - Clandestine feat. Ned Sublette - Radio Rhythm (S-I-G-N-A-L-S-M-A-R-T) (Dub Mix) (Killer Whale)

vinyl: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Arthur-Russell-The-Sleeping-Bag-Sessions/release/1677023

(i may have meant jackson browne (i get mixed up)) (but it is so true, all his kinda slow drum machine shuffly eighties stuff)

Russell & Ned Sublette collabo - awesome.

I mean, the idea. Never heard the track.

A lot of these are experiments, knockoffs, brief sketches, and just plain screwing around in the studio. What's amazing is how much of this stuff sounds so right even in its unfinished state. But, I suspect Russell is one artist who never really thought any work as definitively finished.

I could listen to "Your Motion Says" and the title track all day long.

Sorry to be grouchy.

Sleeping Bag Sessions is wonderful. Dance Arthur is still tops for me above folky/Kitchen/singer-songwriter Arthur. The man had such a malleable, off kilter way with the technology and techniques of club/dance music that I could listen and learn forever.

That is absolutely wonderful, hadn't heard that one before. Has that been reissued on anything? I'd rank that in the tops of his dance stuff.