{"title":"Arthur Russell","description":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Russell was a formally trained cellist and composer with a background in Indian classical music, and a resume highlighted by collaborations with Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass. His involvement in Manhattan's downtown performance scene of the '70s resulted in a long running association with the Kitchen. The same Arthur Russell was also a quirky songwriter, a producer of one-shot disco singles, a founding partner of seminal hip-hop\/dance label Sleeping Bag, and a principle designer of the dubby, underground club sound that bridged the gap between the disco era and the first stirrings of house and garage music. Yet, despite a career that seemed contradictory on the surface, he produced a body of work notable for its focus, integrity, and singularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussell and his cello moved from Iowa to San Francisco in the early '70s, where he studied at a school founded by Hindustani (North Indian) music master Ali Akbar Khan. It was during this West Coast period that he began his association with Ginsberg by providing musical accompaniment for many of the poet's performances. Russell moved to New York in the mid '70s, where he collaborated in the Flying Hearts, a rock project that involved the likes of David Byrne, Rhys Chatham and Peter Gordon. In 1979, Russell produced \"Kiss Me Again,\" the first disco single for Sire records, and made his reputation as a dance music producer with Loose Joint's \"Is It All Over My Face\" for West End. The club mix of this single was one of the earliest efforts by Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan, and qualifies without doubt as a prototype of what came to be known as the Garage sound. In 1982, under the name Dinosaur L, Russell released 24-24 Music on his own Sleeping Bag label. The 12\" single from this album, a Francois Kevorkian remix of \"Go Bang,\" epitomized the loose, jazzy, somewhat minimalist underground sound that would inform Chicago house. Though the record was not a huge dancefloor smash, it was an influential turntable hit, finding its way into many radio mixes and supplying the identifying sample for Todd Terry's \"Bango.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Russell released a portion of a larger instrumental composition as the Tower of Meaning LP, as well as another Loose Joints single. His 1986 World of Echo was a one-man-show of quietist original songs in a solo cello and vocal format that seemed designed to be overheard. World of Echo embodies the link between the two sides of Russell's output. The unusually percussive cello accompaniment evident on the album versions of \"Wax the Van,\" \"Let's Go Swimming\" and \"Treehouse\" could be preliminary sketches for the keyboard and drum versions of those tunes that appeared on Russell produced 12\" singles. Though World of Echo received a favorable critical reception in the U.K. music press, Russell remained relatively obscure throughout his life, which was ended by AIDS in 1992. In 1994, a retrospective of previously unissued material was released as Another Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"arthur-russell-iowa-dream","title":"| Iowa Dream (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eThe visionary musician Arthur Russell is as widely known as he's ever been. Thanks to Russell's partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records, who have forged several records from Russell's vast archive of unreleased material, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell. There's the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell are individually true, none alone define him.Iowa Dream is yet another bright star in Russell's dazzling constellation. Blazing with trademark feeling, these nineteen songs are a staggering collection of Russell's utterly distinct songwriting. And although Arthur could be inscrutably single-minded, he was never totally solitary. Collaborating here is a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians, including Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Rhys Chatham, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and others. Musician Peter Broderick makes a contemporary addition to this list: more than forty years after Russell recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika to complete them, and provided audio restoration and additional mixing.Several tracks on Iowa Dream were originally recorded as demos, in two early examples of his repeated brushes with potential popular success-first in 1974, with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records, and then in 1975, with the legendary John Hammond of Columbia Records. For different reasons, neither session amounted to a record deal.At once kaleidoscopic and intimate, Iowa Dream bears some of Russell's most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s. For Russell, Iowa was never very far away. Titles include \"Just Regular People,\" \"I Wish I Had a Brother,\" \"Wonder Boy,\" \"The Dogs Outside are Barking,\" \"Sharper Eyes,\" \"I Felt, \"I Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,\" \"I Still Love You,\" \"List of Boys,\" \"Barefoot in New York\" and the much requested \"You Did it Yourself,\" until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf's documentary Wild Combination. On Iowa Dream, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world-and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eTracklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eA1        Wonder Boy\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA2        I Never Get Lonesome\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA3        Everybody Everybody\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA4        You Did It Yourself\u003cbr\u003e\r\nA5        Come To Life\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB1        Iowa Dream\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB2        Words Of Love\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB3        I Still Love You\u003cbr\u003e\r\nB4        You Are My Love\u003cbr\u003e\r\nC1        Barefoot In New York\u003cbr\u003e\r\nC2        Just Regular People\u003cbr\u003e\r\nC3        I Wish I Had A Brother\u003cbr\u003e\r\nC4        Felt\u003cbr\u003e\r\nC5        The Dogs Outside Are Barking\u003cbr\u003e\r\nD1        Sharper Eyes\u003cbr\u003e\r\nD2        Follow You\u003cbr\u003e\r\nD3        List Of Boys\u003cbr\u003e\r\nD4        I Kissed The Girl From Outer Space\u003cbr\u003e\r\nD5        In Love With You For The Last Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e*Audio and\/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eLabel: AUDK\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRel. 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