I HAVE HEARD A FEW TRACKS BY ARTHUR RUSSELL IN THE PAST, BUT I HAVE NEVER REALLY LISTENED TO HIM PROPERLY! BUT FOR SOME STRANGE REASON TODAY I WAS BROWSING THROUGH SOME RECORD SHOPS IN SOHO, AND WITH MY ONLY FIVER I WAS DRAWN TO MR RUSSELL'S "CALLING OUT OF CONTEXT" ALBUM. AS SOON AS I GOT HOME I PUT IT ON AND MY FIRST THOUGHTS WAS THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE THE SOUND TRACK TO A TRIPPY MAGIC MUSHROOM INDUCED MOVIE FOR THE 70'S. AS THE TRACKS WENT ON ALL SORTS OF GENRES OF MUSIC WERE INTRODUCED FROM ELECTRO TO HOUSE TO CREEPY VOCALS. YEAH IT DOES SOUND ALL A BIT WEIRD, BUT IT REALLY IS AMAZING! AND DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE ALBUMS YOU WONT GET BORED OF! EVERY TIME YOU LISTEN TO IT YOU NOTICE SOMETHING NEW.
Russell was prolific,but was also notorious for leaving songs unfinished and continually revising his music.(UMH A BIT LIKE ME AND MY DESIGNS) 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.
Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 – April 4, 1992) Twas an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success in dance music, 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 lifetime, a series of reissues and compilations have raised his profile in the 2000s.
THIS IS A TUNE HE PRODUCED! MORE FUNKIER!! BUT THAT ITS BECAUSE ITS A REMIX BY THE FOUNDER OF GARAGE! MR LARRY LEVAN.
MY FAVOURITE TRACK ON THIS ALBUM IS "GET AROUND TO IT" I COULD NOT FIND A SAMPLE OF IT TO POST, BUT BUY THIS ALBUM! I PROMISE YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED!
UNFORTUNATELY ARTHUR DIED of AIDS ON APRIL 4TH, 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.
R.I.P
ARTHUR RUSSELL
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