{"title":"ARTHUR RUSSELL","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"arthur-russell-another-thought-cd","title":"Arthur Russell - Another Thought [CD]","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Avant Garde\/Post-Disco\/\/Ambient\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: BEWITH003CD \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEAN: 4251804126472\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 5th November 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCD Format : 2021 reissue, triple-fold digipak and insert and original liner notes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnother Thought was the first collection of Arthur Russell’s music to be released after his death in 1992. Released in 1993 on Point Music it marked the beginning of nearly 30 years of work to let the world hear the enormous archive of unreleased recordings Arthur left behind. Be With revisits this first compilation for a new gatefold double vinyl version and a triple-fold digipak CD reissue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoth versions of Be With’s 2021 reissue of Another Thought have been mastered by Simon Francis and the vinyl cut by Pete Norman. The original artwork has been restored and tweaked at Be With HQ for the gatefold sleeve and the triple-fold digipak, with the essential help of Janette Beckman. Each version comes with an insert reproducing the liner notes and lyrics from the original CD release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTogether with Calling Out Of Context, Soul Jazz’s World of Arthur Russell, and much of the ongoing work of Audika, Another Thought is absolutely essential for even the most casual Arthur Russell collection. In fact we’d argue it’s essential for any fan of non-obvious pop music. This is the only place where you can hear some of Arthur’s most recognisable tunes and it’s an album that absolutely deserves to be kept in press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe’ll assume that by now you’re all at least a little familiar with the story of Arthur Russell, the farm boy from Iowa who moved to 1970s New York. Arthur Russell the genuine musical genius who died just 40 years old, leaving behind a wealth of music that dwarfed the few 12\"s and LPs that were released during his short life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough Arthur had been working on an album for Rough Trade during his last years, with the label no-longer operating it was Point Music (Philip Glass and Michael Riesman’s label set up together with Philips) who stepped in to help Arthur’s partner Tom Lee start working out exactly what Arthur had left behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTom suggested that Arthur’s friend Mikel Rouse was the right person to make the first catalogue. Working in Tom and Arthur’s apartment he had only two weeks to go through what turned out to be around 800 tapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs Tom explained “at the end of each day he would generally wait for me to come home and I would, to the best of my knowledge, name and identify pieces in question from that day’s work. As he worked Mikel compiled about a dozen cassettes that he thought would present the most finished sounding songs for Don\/Point to use. As Don listened he would then suggest and ask me and thus we collaborated on the choices.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon is Don Christensen, Another Thought’s producer. With a final selection of songs from recordings made between 1982 and 1990, including sessions with some of Arthur’s regular collaborators Peter Zummo, Steven Hall, Mustafa Ahmed, Elodie Lauten, Julius Eastman, Jennifer Warnes and Joyce Bowden, it was then Don’s job to turn these into a finished album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnother Thought is a little different from the compilations of Arthur’s music that came out since. In our conversations with Steve Knutson (who founded Audika Records and who manages Arthur’s estate together with Tom), he explained that “more than any project released by Arthur during his lifetime or posthumously by Audika, ‘Another Thought’ is the most worked over. The material was significantly edited and rearranged from the original source tapes”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf the aim was to release a comprehensive exploration of every facet of Arthur’s music, from the most avant-garde of his avant-garde compositions through to the most disco-not-disco of his disco-not-disco tunes then the project was a spectacular failure. But as a coherent album of non-obvious pop music Another Thought is wonderful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStarting with the sparse voice-and-cello of the title track, A Little Lost adds some guitar along with the sneaking suspicion that we’re listening to something nowhere near as simple as it first sounds. By the time we get to This Is How We Walk On The Moon - it could be the moment you notice the congas, or the percussion that’s been building behind them, or maybe it’s that blast of trumpet and trombone - we realise we’ve gone from splashing around to being completely submerged in the musical world of Arthur Russell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom here the album heads off on its journey around the sounds of the left-field contemporary classical music of the time, re-directed towards pop ears, with minor detours through the swirling woozy disco of the half-remembered night before on In The Light Of The Miracle and My Tiger, My Timing. Whether it’s just Arthur, his cello and some bleeps on Just A Blip, or whether he has some vocal help as he does on the bounding Keeping Up, this is difficult music made so, so easy. And through it all is Arthur’s voice and cello. Sometimes drowned in distortion and sometimes clear as a bell, but always there somewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Sudden Chill finally returns us to the calmer waters we started in and this last track closes the album with a melancholy that’s not surprising given how soon after Arthur’s death the album was put together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhilst Another Thought holds together with the consistency of a proper album, there’s still no getting away from the fact that this was put together from audio recorded in different ways, in different places, with different people at different times. Those with keen ears will hear traces of tape hiss, the occasional blown-out note and some digital fuzz, all fingerprints of those original recordings as well as of the 1990s digital equipment that was used to piece Another Thought together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdd to this Arthur’s obvious pleasure in making music from the sort of sounds that can make microphones, speakers and ears uncomfortable, it’s no surprise that Another Thought isn’t glossy and pristine. Don Christensen’s productions have been careful to not scrub up those original recordings so much that they lose their original vibe, understandable given that Arthur wasn’t around as a guide. We’ve applied a similarly light touch with the mastering for these Be With versions, just working to make sure they sound like they should on both the vinyl and the CD.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the Discogs rumours, Another Thought was never originally released as an LP. So when it came to the sleeve for this Be With vinyl version we took the original CD artwork as a starting point to come up with something that looks like it could have been in the record racks back in 1993.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe have to thank Janette Beckman for helping us reproduce her iconic photograph of Arthur in his newspaper boat hat. One of many photographs she took of Arthur, Janette shot this in her New York studio back in 1986 for a short article in the January ’87 issue of The Face Magazine. Those with eagle-eyes will notice we’ve used an ever-so-slightly different shot from the one that appeared in The Face and then again on the original cover of Another Thought. The original has long since been lost so we’ve worked with what is left in Janette’s archives. And we also have to thank Tom Lee for giving us permission to reproduce his liner notes from the original CD booklet, together with Arthur’s lyrics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* Tracklist LP and CD: 01 : A1 : Another Thought (02:16)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e02 : A2 : A Little Lost (03:18)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e03 : A3 : Home Away From Home (05:12)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e04 : A4 : Lucky Cloud (02:16)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e05 : B1 : This Is How We Walk On The Moon (04:42)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e06 : B2 : Hollow Tree (02:30)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e07 : B3 : See Through Love (04:46)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e08 : C1 : Keeping Up (06:20)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e09 : C2 : In The Light Of The Miracle (06:05)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10 : C3 : Lucky Cloud (Return) (03:00)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11 : C4 : Just A Blip (03:42)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12 : D1 : Me For Real (04:55)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13 : D2 : Losing My Taste For The Night Life (04:34)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14 : D3 : My Tiger, My Timing (05:41)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e15 : D4 : A Sudden Chill (02:45)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Be With Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39844591665308,"sku":"BEWITH003CD","price":12.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/BEWITH108LP.jpg?v=1620304349"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-world-of-echo-cd","title":"Arthur Russell - World Of Echo [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: RTRADCDD208\u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 883870020848\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 26 Nov 2021\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released on LP in 1986, “World Of Echo” is a deeply intimate and meditative work of awe-inspiring grace and remains a timeless work of sublime beauty. 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Arthur’s aim was to achieve what he calls “the most vivid rhythmic reality”, with just cello, voice, and echoes. 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For Russell, Iowa was never very far away. “I see, I see it all,” sings Russell on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown. Russell’s childhood home and family echo, too, through “Just Regular People,” “I Wish I Had a Brother,” “Wonder Boy,” “The Dogs Outside are Barking,” “Sharper Eyes,” and “I Felt.” Meanwhile, songs like “I Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,” “I Still Love You,” “List of Boys,” and “Barefoot in New York” fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell’s devotion to New York’s avant-garde and disco scenes. Finally, the long-awaited “You Did it Yourself,” until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf’s documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell’s extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers. On Iowa Dream, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world—and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41100812091548,"sku":"RT0264LP","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_999f866d-6db3-4f79-8258-db805bb8f6d8.jpg?v=1634635846"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-iowa-dream-cd","title":"Arthur Russell - Iowa Dream [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: RT0264CD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 191402026429\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 26 Nov 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt once kaleidoscopic and intimate, Iowa Dream bears some of Russell’s most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s. For Russell, Iowa was never very far away. “I see, I see it all,” sings Russell on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown. Russell’s childhood home and family echo, too, through “Just Regular People,” “I Wish I Had a Brother,” “Wonder Boy,” “The Dogs Outside are Barking,” “Sharper Eyes,” and “I Felt.” Meanwhile, songs like “I Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,” “I Still Love You,” “List of Boys,” and “Barefoot in New York” fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell’s devotion to New York’s avant-garde and disco scenes. Finally, the long-awaited “You Did it Yourself,” until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf’s documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell’s extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers. 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Released in 1993 on Point Music it marked the beginning of nearly 30 years of work to let the world hear the enormous archive of unreleased recordings Arthur left behind. Be With revisits this first compilation for a new gatefold double vinyl version and a triple-fold digipak CD reissue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth versions of Be With’s 2021 reissue of Another Thought have been mastered by Simon Francis and the vinyl cut by Pete Norman. The original artwork has been restored and tweaked at Be With HQ for the gatefold sleeve and the triple-fold digipak, with the essential help of Janette Beckman. Each version comes with an insert reproducing the liner notes and lyrics from the original CD release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether with Calling Out Of Context, Soul Jazz’s World of Arthur Russell, and much of the ongoing work of Audika, Another Thought is absolutely essential for even the most casual Arthur Russell collection. In fact we’d argue it’s essential for any fan of non-obvious pop music. This is the only place where you can hear some of Arthur’s most recognisable tunes and it’s an album that absolutely deserves to be kept in press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe’ll assume that by now you’re all at least a little familiar with the story of Arthur Russell, the farm boy from Iowa who moved to 1970s New York. Arthur Russell the genuine musical genius who died just 40 years old, leaving behind a wealth of music that dwarfed the few 12\"s and LPs that were released during his short life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Arthur had been working on an album for Rough Trade during his last years, with the label no-longer operating it was Point Music (Philip Glass and Michael Riesman’s label set up together with Philips) who stepped in to help Arthur’s partner Tom Lee start working out exactly what Arthur had left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom suggested that Arthur’s friend Mikel Rouse was the right person to make the first catalogue. Working in Tom and Arthur’s apartment he had only two weeks to go through what turned out to be around 800 tapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Tom explained “at the end of each day he would generally wait for me to come home and I would, to the best of my knowledge, name and identify pieces in question from that day’s work. 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In our conversations with Steve Knutson (who founded Audika Records and who manages Arthur’s estate together with Tom), he explained that “more than any project released by Arthur during his lifetime or posthumously by Audika, ‘Another Thought’ is the most worked over. The material was significantly edited and rearranged from the original source tapes”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the aim was to release a comprehensive exploration of every facet of Arthur’s music, from the most avant-garde of his avant-garde compositions through to the most disco-not-disco of his disco-not-disco tunes then the project was a spectacular failure. But as a coherent album of non-obvious pop music Another Thought is wonderful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with the sparse voice-and-cello of the title track, A Little Lost adds some guitar along with the sneaking suspicion that we’re listening to something nowhere near as simple as it first sounds. By the time we get to This Is How We Walk On The Moon - it could be the moment you notice the congas, or the percussion that’s been building behind them, or maybe it’s that blast of trumpet and trombone - we realise we’ve gone from splashing around to being completely submerged in the musical world of Arthur Russell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom here the album heads off on its journey around the sounds of the left-field contemporary classical music of the time, re-directed towards pop ears, with minor detours through the swirling woozy disco of the half-remembered night before on In The Light Of The Miracle and My Tiger, My Timing. Whether it’s just Arthur, his cello and some bleeps on Just A Blip, or whether he has some vocal help as he does on the bounding Keeping Up, this is difficult music made so, so easy. And through it all is Arthur’s voice and cello. Sometimes drowned in distortion and sometimes clear as a bell, but always there somewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Sudden Chill finally returns us to the calmer waters we started in and this last track closes the album with a melancholy that’s not surprising given how soon after Arthur’s death the album was put together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhilst Another Thought holds together with the consistency of a proper album, there’s still no getting away from the fact that this was put together from audio recorded in different ways, in different places, with different people at different times. Those with keen ears will hear traces of tape hiss, the occasional blown-out note and some digital fuzz, all fingerprints of those original recordings as well as of the 1990s digital equipment that was used to piece Another Thought together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdd to this Arthur’s obvious pleasure in making music from the sort of sounds that can make microphones, speakers and ears uncomfortable, it’s no surprise that Another Thought isn’t glossy and pristine. Don Christensen’s productions have been careful to not scrub up those original recordings so much that they lose their original vibe, understandable given that Arthur wasn’t around as a guide. We’ve applied a similarly light touch with the mastering for these Be With versions, just working to make sure they sound like they should on both the vinyl and the CD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the Discogs rumours, Another Thought was never originally released as an LP. 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Americana touching on Copeland, Ives, and maybe even Brian Wilson. “Instrumentals” Vol. 2 is a moving, deeply pastoral work performed by the CETA Orchestra and conducted by Julius Eastman. Also included are two of Arthur’s most elusive compositions, Reach One, and Sketch For “Face Of Helen”. Recorded live in 1975 at Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Reach One is a minimal, hypnotic ambient soundscape written and performed for two Fender Rhodes pianos. 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Collaborators include Mustafa Ahmed, Walter Gibbons, Steven Hall, Jennifer Warnes, and Peter Zummo. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e30 years have passed since Arthur Russell left us, in relative obscurity, from AIDS complications in 1992. Yet his work—as composer, songwriter and dance music innovator—is better known now than ever before. Since Audika Records and Arthur’s partner Tom Lee began excavating and curating Arthur’s vast archive beginning in 2003, critics worldwide have hailed Russell as a visionary. Countless younger artists cite him as an influence. There has been an internationally acclaimed documentary film (Matt Wolf’s Wild Combination) and biography (Tim Lawrence’s Hold onto Your Dreams), a critical study (Matt Marble’s Buddhist Bubblegum) along with various tribute albums, concerts and events. 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Sadly, Arthur was faced with an unsympathetic market which viewed his material as uncommercial or too eccentric. In the case of the abandoned Rough Trade recordings, Arthur had become ill due to complications from HIV. He simply could not let go of his material. Nonetheless, he worked and reworked songs into an infinite labyrinth of possibilities, working incessantly with confidence and optimism until the last years of his life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs a cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary Arthur Russell consistently blurred the lines of our expectations of what pop music could be. Contrary by nature, Arthur’s spontaneous reaction to and altered perception of his environment produced music that remains challenging and contemporary. 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In collaboration with Russell’s partner Tom Lee, Audika’s Steve Knutson compiled ‘Corn’ from Arthur’s original, completed 1\/4” tape masters. Russell himself compiled this material on three separate test pressings - labelled ‘El Dinosaur’, ‘Indian Ocean’, and ‘Untitled’, respectively - in 1985.\u003cbr\u003e Russell fans know something of the ‘Corn’ sound from Audika’s debut release, ‘Calling Out of Context’ (2004), which included four songs from these sessions: ‘The Deer In The Forest Part 1’, ‘The Platform on the Ocean’, ‘Calling Out Of Context’ and ‘I Like You!’.\u003cbr\u003e This new collection includes rhythmic alternate versions of ‘Lucky Cloud’, ‘Keeping Up’, ‘See My Brother, He’s Jumping Out (Let’s Go Swimming #2)’, ‘This Is How We Walk on the Moon’ and ‘Hiding Your Present From You’, along with ‘Corn’, ‘Corn (Continued)’, ‘They and Their Friends’ and the closing instrumental, ‘Ocean Movie’, one of the most beautiful and curious Russell tracks ever to see the light of day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr\u003eLucky Cloud\u003cbr\u003eCorn\u003cbr\u003eKeeping Up\u003cbr\u003eSee My Brother, He's Jumping Out (Let's Go Swimming #2)\u003cbr\u003eThis Is How We Walk On The Moon\u003cbr\u003eCorn (Continued)\u003cbr\u003eHiding Your Present From You\u003cbr\u003eThey And Their Friends\u003cbr\u003eOcean Movie\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162490736796,"sku":"RT0371LP","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_4df5ef71-8fdd-403b-aeb7-e06d19ded25c.jpg?v=1668088317"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-love-is-overtaking-me-2lp-vinyl-reissue","title":"Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me [2LP Vinyl Reissue]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2LP \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: RTRADLP481\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0883870048118\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 02 Dec 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk\/Americana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e These reissues represent the latest in a series in partnership with Audika Records who, since 2004, have compiled and published the exceptionally varied, long sought-after music of Arthur Russell, and who in the process have helped the beloved, late artist find the broader audience he always believed he would reach. \u003cbr\u003e A new generation of listeners and critics has come to appreciate Russell as a visionary and an influence upon a broad range of today’s most compelling musical artists. \u003cbr\u003e Arthur Russell’s acclaimed albums ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ and ‘Corn’ will now both be made available on vinyl in the UK \/ EU for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’, originally released in 2008, comprises 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk and country songs from Arthur’s vast catalogue. While much critical and popular affection for Russell’s music has come about well after his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these recordings can be heard on ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’. Alongside songs recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by Russell with Ernie Brooks whose shifting line up included, by turns, Jerry Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as Larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are represented on Love Is Overtaking Me, including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty and Bright \u0026amp; Early. \u003cbr\u003e Compiled from over eight hours of material, ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ reaches back further to Russell’s first compositions from the early 1970s and spans forward to his very last recordings, made at home in 1991. Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear contributed mixing, restoration and editing to the album, whose tracks were selected by Audika’s Steve Knutson, Ernie Brooks and Russell’s companion, Tom Lee. Several songs feature prominently in Matt Wolf’s film ‘Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell’. \u003cbr\u003e Extensive ‘Love Is Overtaking Me’ liner notes by Tom Lee provide an intimate perspective on Russell’s diverse catalogue, which spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of artistic communities that would seem utterly disparate, from Philip Glass, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco-party scene of Nicky Siano’s Gallery and David Mancuso’s Loft; and DJ-producers like Francois Kevorkian and Larry Levan, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting\u003cbr\u003eClose My Eyes\u003cbr\u003eGoodbye Old Paint\u003cbr\u003eMaybe She\u003cbr\u003eOh Fernanda Why\u003cbr\u003eTime Away\u003cbr\u003eNobody Wants A Lonely Heart\u003cbr\u003eI Couldn't Say It To Your Face\u003cbr\u003eThis Time Dad You're \u003cbr\u003eWrong\u003cbr\u003eWhat It's Like\u003cbr\u003eEli\u003cbr\u003eHey! 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A further four tracks were discovered in his tape archive. The track listing includes an exceptional and dramatic solo recording of “In The Light of a Miracle” and the enigmatic title instrumental “Picture of Bunny Rabbit”, written especially for a friends pet rabbit. The bulk of the material was recorded with engineer Eric Liljestrand at Battery Sound Studios, New York, which was located directly opposite the World Trade Center and at Arthur’s apartment studio in the East Village.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1986 Arthur Russell was diagnosed with HIV, that same year he released his career-defining masterpiece ‘World of Echo’, the first and only solo album issued during his lifetime. Arthur had found his voice and a fresh direction with a set of new, transformative material, unlike anything he or anyone else had previously released. His illness ensured that the artistic growth and sense of exploration encapsulated in ‘World of Echo’ would be tragically curtailed. Within six short years Arthur was gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur’s final years were filled with a renewed commitment to creativity and unceasing live and recording work. He regularly performed the ‘World of Echo’ material and incorporated several of its compositions in collaborations with choreographers active in New York’s innovative dance community. Arthur worked closely with Diane Madden, Allison Salzinger, Stephanie Woodard and John Bernd, usually playing his cello and effects boxes off stage as the choreographers’ pieces were performed. 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Within six short years Arthur was gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur’s final years were filled with a renewed commitment to creativity and unceasing live and recording work. He regularly performed the ‘World of Echo’ material and incorporated several of its compositions in collaborations with choreographers active in New York’s innovative dance community. Arthur worked closely with Diane Madden, Allison Salzinger, Stephanie Woodard and John Bernd, usually playing his cello and effects boxes off stage as the choreographers’ pieces were performed. In 1993 Arthur posthumously received a prestigious Bessie Composer Award for his work in the dance world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis release is the latest in a series in partnership with Audika Records, the exclusive label and home for the Arthur Russell archive and estate, who since 2004 have compiled and published the exceptionally varied, long sought-after music of Arthur Russell, and who in the process have helped the beloved, late artist find the broader audience he always believed he would reach. A new generation of listeners and critics has come to appreciate Russell as a visionary and an influence upon a broad range of today’s most compelling musical artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eSide A - \u003cbr\u003eFuzzbuster 10\u003cbr\u003eNot Checking Up\u003cbr\u003eTelling No One\u003cbr\u003eFuzzbuster 06\u003cbr\u003eThe Boy With A Smile\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B - \u003cbr\u003eFuzzbuster 09\u003cbr\u003eVery Reason\u003cbr\u003ePicture Of Bunny Rabbit \u003cbr\u003eIn The Light Of A Miracle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42441324036252,"sku":"RT0425CD","price":10.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/Arthur.Russell_Bunny.Rabbit.jpg?v=1680963531"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-in-the-light-of-the-miracle-remixes","title":"Arthur Russell - In The Light Of The Miracle - Remixes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\" Vinyl\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BEWITH023TWELVE \u003cbr\u003eBarcode: 4251804181266\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 03 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\/House\/Disco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2025 REPRESS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFINALLY! The very first commercial release of two legendary remixes of Arthur Russell's \"In The Light Of The Miracle\". Both are widely regarded as transcendent masterpieces and very much befitting of the title “holy grails”. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese long-beloved mixes are the types you'd wish would last for eternity. With almost 30 minutes of music here, we very nearly get our desires granted. At last, these jaw-dropping mixes are widely available to every Arthur fan in the world. This is musical perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deep Loft classic \"In The Light Of The Miracle\" remained unreleased during Arthur's lifetime, finally discovered when Phillip Glass included the original version on Another Thought on Point Music in 1993. As Steve Knutson told us, when Another Thought was being put together, the plan was to release a companion album of remixes that was overseen by Steve D'Aquisto but the project only got as far as these two remixes of \"In The Light Of The Miracle\". \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome dodgy scans of some centre label designs suggest that Point Music might’ve been planning to release these on a 12\" but it didn’t happen. The story goes that Gilles Peterson heard the remixes on a visit to the Point Music offices and wanted to release them on Talkin’ Loud. We’re not sure how many white label copies made it out into the wild, but again, these remixes didn’t make it to a proper release. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese remixes both extend and undeniably enhance the original, elevating it to new heights. The 13 minute remix on the A-side is by Danny Krivit \u0026amp; Tony Smith with editing duties performed by Tony Morgan. As ever with Arthur, the music is almost impossible to describe: is it Disco? Garage House? Avant Garde? None of these tags do full justice to its sheer majesty. You best just listen. Stretching out the original with some unbelievably great percussive elements, until we're in a deeply spiritual, otherworldly realm, it's just too beautiful for words. As many have claimed, it's the prototype for EVERYTHING. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Ponytail Club Mix (Part 1 \u0026amp; 2)\", produced by Tony Morgan in the mid-90s, is in a more up-tempo style, with vocals higher in the mix, the BPM upped to 120 and the addition of a housey 4\/4 kick drum. A 14 minute epic, you could say this is a more straight ahead \"club-friendly\" mix (but can things ever be that straightforward with Arthur?!) It also has some really interesting vocal parts not used in the other versions, including some vocals from guest poet Allen Ginsberg. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese remixes are part of the same original project that also produced the Another Thought album so it seems only right that they have a sleeve that matches. Thanks again to Janette Beckman for letting us use another of her photos of Arthur and the rest of the design follows what Margery Greenspan, Tina Lauffer and Michael Klotz did for Another Thought back in 1994. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Francis remastered the original audio for both tracks and Cicely Balston's precise cut for Alchemy at AIR Studios ensures this 12\" well and truly slaps. 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Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn't play \"for\" the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself...and a few of us just happened to be present\" - Tom Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlus the complete \"Sketches For World Of Echo\" (originally published in 2020 as a cassette and DL) available for the first time on CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Double CD digipack + full colour insert and liner notes.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003eDisc One Sketches for World of Echo\u003cbr\u003eChanging Forest\u003cbr\u003eLet's Go Swimming\u003cbr\u003eThey and Their Friends\u003cbr\u003eKeeping Up\u003cbr\u003eMake 1,2\u003cbr\u003eI Take This Time\u003cbr\u003eLosing My Taste For The Nightlife\u003cbr\u003eI Can't Hide You\u003cbr\u003eThe Boy with a Smile On His Face\u003cbr\u003eSunlit Water \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out\u003cbr\u003eThat's The Very Reason\u003cbr\u003eTower Of Meaning\/Rabbit's Ear\/Home Away From Home\u003cbr\u003eHappy Ending\u003cbr\u003eAll-Boy All-Girl\/Tiger Stripes\/You Can't Hold Me Down\u003cbr\u003eIntroductions\u003cbr\u003eHiding Your Present From You\/School Bell\u003cbr\u003eToo Early To Tell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rough Trade Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44931400433820,"sku":"RT0542CD","price":13.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/unnamed_11_3c28e4db-dde8-4ba3-b865-1c0ced41498e.jpg?v=1744971696"},{"product_id":"arthur-russell-open-vocal-phrases-2lp","title":"Arthur Russell - Open Vocal Phrases.... 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Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn't play \"for\" the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself...and a few of us just happened to be present\" - Tom Lee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning\/Rabbit's Ear\/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs That's The Very Reason, and Too Early to Tell. 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Revised artwork by Molly Smith with extensive liner notes from Arthur’s partner Tom Lee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver twenty years ago, Audika Records began compiling and releasing the exceptionally varied, long sought-after music of Arthur Russell, and in the process has succeeded at helping the beloved, late artist find the broader audience he always believed he would reach. A new generation of listeners and critics has come to appreciate Russell as a visionary and an influence upon a broad range of today’s most compelling musical artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile much critical and popular affection for Russell’s music has come about well after his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these recordings now heard on Love Is Overtaking Me, along with songs recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by Russell and Ernie Brooks whose shifting lineup included, by turns, Jerry Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as Larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are represented on Love Is Overtaking Me, including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty and Bright \u0026amp; Early.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled from over eight hours of material, Love Is Overtaking Me reaches back further to Russell’s earliest compositions beginning in 1973 and spans forward to his very last recordings, made at home in 1991. 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