Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

I'll be ordering that up as well. I would just like to say that I think the re-issue job West End has been doing on their stuff is great, and they are some of the friendliest folks to deal with. They already re-issued 'Is It All Over My Face' as well.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodes/2006/08/24

Arthur being used for a mobile phone advertisment? Crazy! But hey, if it subsidises Audika and allows Mr. Knutson to put out more of Arthur's music, then better him than Moby.

i disagree, the A side is an awful tangle of enervating post-Glass experiments, while the B side is ok for the breathy Russell and tabla workout, but it doesn't amount to much. i worked my ass off trying to find this record and it hit my sell pile pretty quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5tM1coZr4k

Does anyone know which song it is Arthur's playing at about 0:35?

Wax the Van(Dub) is great! Thanks Jeff.

24-24 Music has just been reissued on CD:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000T875EW/ref=wl_itt_dp/105-6389914-9065208?ie=UTF8&coliid=IZDT4ILQ8SVIX&colid=18R3WS4QMPN35

i just came here to ask if that was legit or a boot. that 'thank you arthur' edit is a nice bonus.

"Tigerstripes" is sooooooo good.

100% legit, put out by the people who currently own the rights to the Sleeping Bag catalog.

wowza

who did that "thank you arthur" edit? AR himself?

i've just downloaded "world of echo" and am listening in full for the first time. oh, new obsession. where have you been all my life. beautiful.

Oh wow. I should pull out that vinyl right now.

yeah, there really isn't anything else like that. a magical world unto itself.

I found it in my stacks! Tone Bone Kone! Man, this takes me back.

See I've never really been able to understand people who heard something else as their first exposure to him than this album.

Okay "I Take This Time" for the win, but "Place I Know/Kid Like You" in hot pursuit.

What instantly hooked me on Russell was the early Audika website playing the first 15 seconds or so of "Tone Bone Kone," the "I'm so happy I met you and came to find you this evening" part.

yeah, "place i know/kid like you" and "our last night together" are immediate favorites. he's someone i've meant to investigate for years now but just haven't for whatever reason. he circulates around so many of my interests (ginsberg, matmos, electronic music in general, gay culture) that it's kind of crazy that i am just now really hearing him. what a fascinating guy. i really want to see that documentary that's coming out.

I can't believe World of Echo is on iTunes with bonus tracks.

I'm playing the side of the LP that starts with "Treehouse" now which is weird for me because I always kindof ignored this side because I was so overly familiar and enamored with the songs on the other side! It all sounds heavily amazing now, though. But (and I hate to admit this...) whatever that CD that came out just after he died...I didn't like that one nearly as much. It was a whole different thing. "Another Thought" wasn't it? Early 90's. It was alright, but not nearly as amazing as World of Echo was. That was a good song for the title track, though "Another Thought".

But I was completely amazed to learn later that he'd actually taken a couple stabs at dance music earlier on. That was just weird. Certainly he was a gifted individual in the creative sense. Also I could have sworn I bought some EP of his of earlier on that was very ambient. Holy hell, I just remembered this. Black sleeve. Red letters. Am I wrong? Wow, I had totally forgotten that.

You're thinking of the Instrumentals LP on Crepuscule, which is compiled with tons more stuff on First Thought Best Thought.

I think there was a time where I had Another Thought and World of Echo and loved them and also had Is It All Over My Face and Go Bang! and loved them but didn't put it all together till much later.

Yes! It was Crepuscule! Thanks Dan!

Here's a stupid question: can anybody recommend stuff (by Russell or anyone else) that sounds like "Kiss Me Again"?

"another thought" was my introduction to arthur and is probably the album i've listened to the most in the last decade or so. it's like a best friend to me as it helped me through a really hard time in my life. i wouldn't quite go as far as to say it saved my life but it came pretty close.

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it's not a psyche-disco tour-de-force like "Kiss Me Again" by any stretch of the imagination, but the first thing that jumps to mind is Sylvester's "Over and Over". I always loved how "Kiss Me Again" seemed to be at least partially striving to sound like a bunch of musicians just throwing down in a room (although of course it's FAR more intricately arranged than that - I re-ripped it to post on my blog a few weeks ago and the multitracking on the flipside in particular is magnificently well-done), and "Over and Over" just hits that same spot.

See I've never really been able to understand people who heard something else as their first exposure to him than this album.

-- Bimble, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

??? he had huge underground dance tracks before that

Huge for people in the vicinity of New York, perhaps...

and chicago