Arthur Russell compilation

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does anyone know what's planned for the 'disc highlighting Russell's orchestrated music'? "tower of meaning" and "instrumentals" perhaps? or are there more recordings floating out there?
i wonder if "24-24 music" will turn up on disc... grabbed the boot recently and it's, um, okay...

― jwd, Saturday, 10 January 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

I feel a little better about the planet knowing that this disc exists.

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 10 January 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

o but if this should fall into the wrong hands...

or...actually wot andy said.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 10 January 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

The more over time Russell strikes me as this American demi-equivalent to Mark Hollis. *thinks*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

not sure what the orch. stuff past ToM or Instrumentals v2. would entail. i do know that Instr. 2 is mastered at the wrong speed, so that would be corrected. perhaps Instrumentals Vol.1?
just saw the Peter Zummo (XI) disc with Arthur and Mustafa Ahmed. don't know anything about that though.

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 10 January 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

did everyone see the arthur russell profile by david toop in this month's wire magazine?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 10 January 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

Ned OTM - they have similar singing styles, they sing IN not out. You get the feeling that the music was not made with anyone else (even a listener) in mind.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 January 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

arthur russell towers above mark hollis, though, and you know i don't say this lightly.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Phew, a bold statement. But one I can understand, actually, since Russell shows a greater range in the end, though Hollis became such an elegant perfectionist (miniaturist?) that it's quite awe-inspiring.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

heh, i'm just being a troublemaker. really their respective achievements make them very hard to rate side by side.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

True enough, but they do have this shared delicacy and restrained in their singing which called the comparison to mind. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

agreed.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

As a public service announcement for London-based posters: the Soul Jazz comp is now on sale a week early at the Sounds of the Universe shop in Broadwick Street, Soho. £9.99.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

ten years pass...

Just getting into "Calling Out of Context," fucking amazing - where to go next?

― Pentenema Karten, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:59 (nine years ago) link

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― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 24 October 2014 07:29 (nine years ago) link

yeah go through some singles, that comp has some good stuff to get you started. def check out world of echo at some point tho.

― ogmor, Friday, 24 October 2014 07:38 (nine years ago) link

And Another Thought!

― MaresNest, Friday, 24 October 2014 09:26 (nine years ago) link

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