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World Of Echo |
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| Location: | NEW YORK, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 25, 2008 (570 days back) |
About Me |
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| Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 – April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success as a dance music artist, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his life, a series of reissues and posthumous releases has raised his profile in recent years. Russell was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he later studied the cello and began to write his own music. When he was 18 he moved to San Francisco, where he lived in a Buddhist commune and studied North Indian music at the Ali Akbar College of Music. He met Allen Ginsberg, with whom he began to work, accompanying him on the cello while Allen sang or read his poetry. In 1973, Arthur Russell moved to New York and began study at the Manhattan School of Music, also working as The Kitchen's musical director. He formed a band from 1975–1979, The Flying Hearts, recorded by John Hammond, which consisted of Arthur (keyboards, vocals), ex-Modern Lovers member Ernie Brooks (bass, vocals), Larry Saltzman (guitar), and David Van Tieghem (drums, vocals), with a later incarnation in the 1980s that included Joyce Bowden (vocals) and Jesse Chamberlin (drums). He contributed to The Flying Hearts in studio work and, occasionally, in performance with David Byrne, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Jerry Harrison, Garret List, Andy Paley, Leni Pickett and Peter Zummo. From 1975 to 1979 this ensemble, together with Glenn Iamaro, Bill Ruyle and Jon Sholle, performed and recorded the orchestral composition of Instrumentals (Disques du Crepescule, 1984, Belgium). In 1979, Arthur wrote and produced “Kiss Me Again” under the name Dinosaur. It was the first disco single to be released by Sire Records, and the first of many of Arthur's innovative dance tunes. This was followed by “Is It All Over My Face” by Loose Joints, released in 1980. In 1981, Arthur Russell and William Socolov founded Sleeping Bag Records and their first release was his 24-24 Music. The number “Go Bang”, which originated from this album, was re-mixed as a 12" single by Francois Kevorkian. These songs were all frequently played at Larry Levan's Paradise Garage; in particular, Levan's remix of "Is It All Over My Face" (one of his earliest remixes) has been recognized as a prototype of garage music. In 1983, the album "Tower of Meaning" (Chatham Square) was released. This compelling and meditative recording, conducted by Julius Eastman, represents just a fragment of a much larger composition, which includes voices along with its instrumentation. At the same time, Arthur continued to release dance singles such as “Tell You Today” (4th and Broadway, 1983) an upbeat dance groove featuring the vocals of Joyce Bowden. Additional dance tunes included Wax the Van (Jump Street, 1985) with vocals by Lola Blank, “Treehouse/Schoolbell” (Sleeping Bag, 1986) and “Let's Go Swimming” (Upside/Rough Trade, 1986). During the mid 1980s, Arthur Russell gave many performances, either accompanying himself on cello with a myriad of effects, or working with a small ensemble consisting of Mustafa Ahmed, Steven Hall, Elodie Lauten and Peter Zummo. 1986 saw the release of 'World of Echo” (Upside/Rough Trade, 1986), which incorporated many of his ideas for pop, dance and classical music for both solo and cello format. The album was well-reviewed in Britain and included in Melody Maker's "Top Thirty Releases of 1986". Arthur also collaborated with a number of choreographers, including John Bernd, Diane Madden, Alison Salzinger and Stephanie Woodard. Arthur Russell died of AIDS on April 4, 1992, at the age of 40. In an April 28 column, Kyle Gann of The Village Voice wrote: "His recent performances had been so infrequent due to illness, his songs were so personal, that it seems as though he simply vanished into his music." Russell was prolific, but was also notorious for leaving songs unfinished and continually revising his music. Ernie Brooks said that Russell "never arrived at a completed version of anything," while Peter Gordon stated, "his quest wasn't really to do a finished product but more to do with exploring his different ways of working musically". He left behind more than 1,000 tapes when he died, 40 of them different mixes of one song. In 2007, “This Is How We Walk On The Moon”, a song which appears on the 1994 album "Another Thought", was used in a UK television commercial for T-Mobile. Also in 2007 the artist Johanna Billing exhibited a video of the same title, which included a cover of the song, at Documenta 12 in Kassel and at a gallery in Edinburgh. A new documentary on Arthur by filmmaker Matt Wolf entitled Wild Combination: A Portrait Of Arthur Russell has been completed and will be screening at film festivals in 2008. The world premiere was at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, 2008. |
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Music:Member Since: 6/23/2006Band Website: ArthurRussellMovie.com Record Label: Audika Type of Label: Indie |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Experimental / Disco House / Pop) |
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Arthur Russell documentary world premiere! |
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| Great news from Matt Wolf:
We're thrilled to announce that Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, which runs from February ... Posted by Arthur Russell on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:22:00 PST |
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An update on the upcoming Arthur Russell documentary |
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| This is from the great folks creating the forthcoming Arthur Russell documentary. Please help them if you can.
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After two years of research and production in New York and Oskaloosa, Iowa 35... Posted by Arthur Russell on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:17:00 PST |
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T-Mobile UK uses AR song in TV ad. |
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| T-Mobile UK is features AR's song "This Is How We Walk On The Moon" from Another Thought in their TV advertising campaign for a service called Street Check. Here's the ad:
http://www.visit4... Posted by Arthur Russell on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST |
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Another Thought reissued. |
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| Arthur's 1994 album Another Thought has been reissued by Orange Mountain Music and is available through Amazon and iTunes. Posted by Arthur Russell on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:33:00 PST |
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New Yorker article c. 2004, no longer online. |
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Arthur Russell's gentle revolutions.
by SASHA FRERE-JONES
Issue of 2004-03-08
This story begins... Posted by Arthur Russell on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:32:00 PST |
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Older AR articles |
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| Slate: Disco Fever Arthur Russell was famous in his day; what happened?
FreakTrigger: Secret Plunges The Other History of Arthur Russell... Posted by Arthur Russell on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:28:00 PST |
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New Arthur Russell archival release: Springfield. |
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From Audika:
Before Homer (Simpson) there was Arthur Russell and his vision of a utilitarian and common social oasis. There appears to be in every state of ... Posted by Arthur Russell on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:48:00 PST |
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An Arthur Russell documentary is in production. |
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| For more infomation visit http://www.arthurrussellmovie.com/. Posted by Arthur Russell on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:40:00 PST |
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