ARTHUR RUSSELL Instrumentals (2022 UK/EU limited edition
remastered black vinyl double album 2-LP. For this
remastered vinyl edition, a key part of Arthur’s musical life
has been restored. The sparkling, multidimensional results
take the listener closer to Arthur’s coast-to-coast journey: his
iconoclastic determination to combine pop and art music; and
his desire to make music that would resonate in the present
and, ultimately, across time. Picture sleeve with 12-page
booklet and liner notes by Tim Lawrence, author of Hold
On To Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music
Scene, 1973-1992. Hype sticker & factory sealed).
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Arthur Russell Instrumentals - Remastered Black Vinyl + 12-page Booklet - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
Remastered double LP with 12 page booklet including liner notes by Tim Lawrence, Ernie Brooks and Arthur Russell. All material previously released on the Audika CD compilation First Thought Best Thought. Before Disco, and before the transcendent echoes, Arthur wanted to be a composer. His journey began in 1972, leaving home in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Heading west to Northern California, Arthur studied Indian classical composition at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music followed by western orchestral music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before ending two years later in New York at the Manhattan School of Music. Traversing the popular and the serious, Arthur composed “Instrumentals” in 1974, inspired by the photography of his Buddhist teacher, Yuko Nonomura, as Arthur described, “I was awakened, or re- awakened to the bright-sound and magical qualities of the bubblegum and easy-listening currents in American popular music”. Initially intended to be performed in one 48 hour cycle, Instrumentals was in fact only performed in excerpts a handful of times as a work in progress.
The legendary performances captured live in New York at The Kitchen (1975 and 1978) and Franklin St. Arts Center (1977) feature the cream of that eras downtown new music scene including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Julius Eastman, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Garrett List, Andy Paley, Bill Ruyle, Dave Van Tieghem, and Peter Zummo. 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. Sketch For Face Of Helen was inspired by Arthur’s work with friend and composer Arnold Dreyblatt, recorded with an electronic tone generator, keyboard and ambient recordings of a rumbling tugboat from the Hudson River.
Side A
1. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 1)
2. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 2)
3. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 3)
4. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 4)
5. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 5)
6. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 6)
7. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 7)
8. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 8)
9. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 9)
10. Instrumentals Volume 1 (Part 10)
Side B
1. Instrumentals Volume 2 (Part 1)
2. Instrumentals Volume 2 (Part 2)
3. Instrumentals Volume 2 (Part 3)
Side C
1. Instrumentals Volume 2 (Part 4)
2. Instrumentals Volume 2 (Part 5)
3. Sketch for Face of Helen
Side D
1. Reach One (With Two Fender Rhodes) (1973)
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Monday 16th September
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| Year of Release: |
2022 |
| Artist: |
Arthur Russell (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Instrumentals (click here for more of the same title) |
| Price: |
£ 29.99, US$ 39.29
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| Format: |
2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album) |
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| Record Label: |
Rough Trade |
| Catalogue No: |
RT0307LP |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
13 May 2022
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
ABV2LIN843700 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
191402030716 |
| Genres: |
Disco, Indie
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| Related Artists: |
Loose Joints |
| Complete Stock List: |
Arthur Russell |
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| Alternative Names: |
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