Arthur Russell
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Flying Hearts: Other End, New York NY
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977
WHEN JONATHAN Richman went acoustic, the other members of The Modern Lovers tried really hard to play with him but it just didn't work out. ...
Sleeping Bag Records #2: Sleeping Around
Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 27 September 1986
Last week Frank Owen unearthed the warped machismo of JUST ICE. Now, in the second part of his investigation into SLEEPING BAG RECORDS, he corners ...
Report and Interview by David Toop, The Face, January 1987
MUSIC with drums? Music without drums? That is the question. New Yorker Arthur Russellrecords both, though he drily observes, "in outer space you can't take ...
Profile and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 11 April 1987
YOU MAY KNOW ARTHUR RUSSELL FOR HIS WORLD OF ECHO ALBUM. THEN AGAIN, YOU MAY REMEMBER DINOSAUR L OR THE NECESSARIES OR... WELL. FRANK OWEN TAKES US ON A TRIP ...
Arthur Russell: The Kitchen, New York NY
Live Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 9 May 1987
RUSSELL, A fiery chameleon of a man, a nervous splutter of contradictions and paranoia, seems available to all interpretations and answerable to none. World Of ...
Retrospective by David Toop, The Wire, April 1995
This New York composer, who died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992, was a true visionary, traversing dub, disco and minimalism and anticipating the '90s ...
Arthur Russell: The Flying Heart
Retrospective by David Toop, The Wire, January 2004
Arthur Russell is the great enigma of New York's music scene. A cellist, Buddhist and former music director at the legendary Kitchen, he was seduced ...
Arthur Russell: The World of Arthur Russell (Soul Jazz) *****
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, February 2004
IT'S AN UNLIKELY STORY: avant-garde cellist sees the light in a disco glitterball at New York gay club The Gallery and decides disco is the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, May 2010
"I'VE GOT so much to do. All the music in the world," wrote Arthur Russell to a San Francisco friend after arriving in New York ...
Vin Diesel, Arthur Russell and me
Memoir by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 30 March 2021
Mixmaster Arthur Russell meets wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (aka Vin Diesel). What could possibly go wrong? That's what Gary Lucas thought when he brought these ...
see also Dinosaur L
see also Flying Hearts
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