Arthur Russell - World of Echo - VINYL LP

John Storg rds - Symphony 2 / Mannheim Rocket [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/25/2004

Another Thought was the first collection of Arthur Russell's music to be released after his death in 1992. Released in 1993 on Point Music it marked the beginning of nearly 30 years of work to let the world hear the enormous archive of unreleased recordings Arthur left behind. Be With revisits this first compilation for a new gatefold double vinyl version and a triple-fold digipak CD reissue. We'll assume that by now you're all at least a little familiar with the story of Arthur Russell, the farm boy from Iowa who moved to 1970s New York. Arthur Russell the genuine musical genius who died just 40 years old, leaving behind a wealth of music that dwarfed the few 12' s and LPs that were released during his short life. Although Arthur had been working on an album for Rough Trade during his last years, with the tag no longer operating it was Point Music (Philip Glass and Michael Riesman's tag set up together with Philips) who stepped in to help Arthur's partner Tom Lee start working out exactly what Arthur had left behind. Tom suggested his and Arthur's friend Mikel Rouse was the right person to make the first catalogue. Working in Tom and Arthur's apartment he had only two weeks to go through what turned out to be around 800 tapes. As Tom explained Inchat the end of each day he would generally wait for me to come home and I would, to the best of my knowledge, name and identify pieces in question from that day's work. As he worked Mikel compiled about a dozen cassettes that he thought would present the most finished sounding songs for Don/Point to use. As Don listened he would then suggest and ask me and thus we collaborated on the choices.Inch Don is Don Christensen, Another Thought's producer. With a final selection of songs from recordings made between 1982 and 1990, including sessions with some of Arthur's regular collaborators Peter Zummo, Steven Hall, Mustafa Ahmed,

Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in And Out offers two intimate unedited Arthur Russell solo liveperformances recorded at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85 and 06/25/84.Phill curated and produced with Arthur both concerts at EI that would become part of the foundation for the World of Echo album. Arthur titledthe performances InchSketches for World of EchoInch (released on cassette/DL in 2020) and InchOpen Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in and OutInch.These extraordinary performances were recorded 18 months apart between 1984/85 by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from both concerts merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986.The double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning/Rabbit's Ear/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs That's The Very Reason, and Too Early to Tell.Side four includes two instrumental performances from the 06/25/84 Sketches for World of Echo performance, InchChanging ForestInch and InchSunlit WaterInch along with a full color insert and liner notes from Audika Records and Arthur Russell archivist Steve Knutson.