Ok . MORE Arthur Russell (But This Is Great)

I guess I have a limitless appetite for AR offcuts but this one is making me smile a lot:

https://soundcloud.com/foommusic/dinosaur-l-clean-on-your-bean-featuring-peter-gordon

Excellent. What's the story with it?

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17308-dinosaur-l-clean-on-your-bean-00-ft-peter-gordon/

Sorting through his own archive of tapes not long ago, Gordon came across an unmarked box with a 1/4-inch reel inside; that tape, he says, turned out to be an unreleased mix of 1982's "Clean On Your Bean" (co-produced with Russell under his moniker Dinosaur L). François Kevorkian's mix of the same song serves as the B-side to Dinosaur L's "Go Bang! #5", the inaugural 12-inch on the Sleeping Bag label, but this version, with vocals and saxophone pushed into the foreground, is Gordon's own.

In an email, Gordon offered some history. "'Clean On Your Bean' was born of the circus," he writes. "At the time, I was playing music with the Big Apple Circus (other members of the circus band included Peter Zummo, Boris Policeband, Denman Maroney and Michael Cannick). One of the circus acts was a unicycle act comprised of young African-American athletes, the Backstreet Flyers. Two of the performers (Andre and Abel) were neophyte rappers and I brought them into the studio with Arthur. This version features more vocals (and more of Arthur’s lyrics) than appear on the single, or on the album 24->24 Music. You can very slightly hear Julius Eastman's organ playing (more prominently featured on 'Go Bang') in the background."

Finally found the 15:49 minute New Shoes Part I & II version of Tell You Today online

http://youtu.be/3Iw8xCdm-xA

and also In the Light of the Miracle (Ponytail Club Mix Part 1 & 2)

http://youtu.be/c3pl-yMX_6o

Thanks!

That is great! Love the bleeps and bloops on Tell You Today.

I'd been looking for it for years, to the point where I had begun to think it didn't exist, so finally hearing it and it being as great as I'd always hoped has put a big smile on my face.

thanks for the links!

superextended "tell you today" is amazing, big smiles all around. thanks, worlds.

f**k!!!!! it really does exist. i too had stopped believing it did. it's everything i hoped it would be too but also pains me that i'll have to put it back to the top of the list of records i'm searching for and will probably never find. i wonder why nobody has made it available again?

So great and dubbed out. Kind of a Holy Grail achieved just to hear this!

Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell really is a fine joint.

Too, I mean (thanx for latest links!)

this is incredible, cheers!

xxxxp looks like its on discogs? http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/199411487

"Notes
total duration of side B is 15:49 "

im 99.9% sure that's not it. i've fallen for it being that one before which is why i have ended up with several copies all the same that aren't the one in the video.

really? the title and running time are exactly the same. what's the difference?

looks like the seller is Joseph Colbourne, a friend and a friend of many a DJ I know. May be worth contacting him and asking.

i've contacted him just in cas. i have a copy with those exact running times on the label but the actual record is just the original instrumental. there was a label misprint. trust me, i've been looking for 15 years. :-)

case.

this is amazing, thank you

^^

is that ginsberg on in the light of the miracle?

Sounds like him!

What year is that "LOTM" remix from? Sounds recent. Maybe it's the House pulse running underneath.0

it is ginsberg. it was scheduled for release in '96 but never got past the promo stage. i guess it was done around that time.

AR shows up several times in Ginsberg's box set,Holy Soul Jelly Roll, to very good effect. Dylan plays on a couple of the same tracks.

T. Heads, "Psycho Killer" with Arthur on cello ( 'tube comments incl. that it's a bonus track on Talking Heads 77, dunno if it's same version though.)Note big chunks of AR on this same youtube page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoclXuB6JOU

I have a new album in the works of previously unreleased music, more in the vein and left of Calling Out Of Context material.
Some of the material is from similar sessions as 'Platform On The Ocean'. I'm hoping to have it out late Spring 2014.

Wonder what the status of this is?

attn englanders:

https://twitter.com/Cafeoto/status/581447893325840385

woah
that's quite a line-up
day after Eurovision though
I will be hungover

wish i hadn't told my friends about it, looks like getting tickets is going to be a vicious, bloody battle

Really hoping this event is documented better than with someone's cell phone.

What time did it sell out? I completely forgot to check until 4pm or so.

Wonder whether they would be able to put on a second show the next day.

it managed to break the site, when it started functioning again after around an hour down it sold out in a matter of minutes. i was successful!

Damn, good work Merdey!

Was lucky enough to be checking my Twitter feed (which I m/l never do) around the time that the new venue was announced and extra tickets were released, so I am going to this. Hopla!

http://content-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10339780_824440714299874_6398739041397457071_n.jpg?oh=548f83ac748132d723120481e5d90be3&oe=55A9E648
Out in June!

wow!

Arthur Russell fans buoyed by this 2014 vinyl edition of World Of Echo can look forward to vinyl re-presses of the compilations Love Is Overtaking Me and Calling Out Of Context, as well as an upcoming album of unreleased material entitled CORN: “The material is for the most part solo, and to the left of Calling Out Of Context. Programmed drum machine, heavy metal cello, multi-layer Casio drones, and all very rhythmic."

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-story-of-arthur-russell-world-of-echo/

I thought a lot of the Corn material showed up on Calling Out Of Context? Or is this new album different to the original unreleased Corn album?

anyway new material is always welcome

Love is Overtaking Me is a real grower

Extra London date! Kind of wish I'd waited...

01 Lucky Cloud
02 Corn
03 Keeping Up
04 See My Brother, He's Jumping Out (Let's Go Swimming #2)
05 This Is How We Walk on the Moon
06 Corn (Continued)
07 Hiding Your Present From You
08 They and Their Friends
09 Ocean Movie

can you even imagine hearing alternate versions of some of these songs

I cannot believe this thread failed to alert me to the "Pop Your Funk" reissue:

http://www.discogs.com/Loose-Joints-Pop-Your-Funk/release/6922282

Times being what they are I've put my copy of "Tower Of Meaning" up for sale on Discogs. Yeah, pricey but it's in great shape and rare and yadda yadda. Sad day.

Rhys Chatham has been tweeting from the AR tour w Peter Gordon.

A friend asks who played on the version of "In The Light of The Miracle"on The World of Arthur Russell, but my copy of the Soul Jazz CD doesn't credit players on the track list (although a few are mentioned, for a few tracks, in the very conversational booklet). Does anybody know?

As far as I know "In The Light of The Miracle" was originally performed by 'The Singing Tractors' – Arthur, Elodie Lauten, Mustafa Ahmed and Peter Zummo in 1982. The version on The World of Arthur Russell was produced by Steve D’Aquisto and Steven Hall and then mixed by Danny Krivit & Tony Smith.

apart from Arthur -

Keyboards, Vocals – Elodie Lauten
Percussion – Mustafa Ahmed
Trombone – Peter Zummo
Vocals (Additional) – Julius Eastman

Thanks guys! Somebody really needs to write a book about all this. Wild Combination is an excellent biodoc, but we need more about his life in music, the music-making process especially.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/Hold-On-to-Your-Dreams/

http://thequietus.com/articles/03425-review-excerpt-hold-on-to-your-dreams-arthur-russell-and-the-downtown-music-scene-1973-1992-by-tim-lawrence