So here is another song off of Love is Overtaking Me , the soon to be released Arthur Russell compilation. Arthur Russell - What It's Like Originally I thought this to be the weakest song on the album. The compilation is country themed, and this is one of the songs where the instrumental timbre of country music is strongest. There is a wanking lead guitar, slithering organ line, and a slow-walking bass. The drum beat is straight and simple rock, but a little [...]
Dans la foulée du beau documentaire consacré à Arthur Russell, Audika et Rough Trade se sont penché sur les chansons laissées par le musicien, en marge de ses compositions éparpillées quelque part entre disco et musique contemporaine. La compilation s'appelle Love is Overtaking Me , elle est tranquillement country-folk et sort le 28 octobre par chez nous.
Arthur Russell - The Letter This is probably my favorite song on the new Arthur Russell compilation.
Free Blood - Parangatang Take a wild stab where these guys are from. I give you three guesses. Duhhh, of course they're from Brooklyn. Psychadelia and soul and a little bit of tribal drums but enough of a beat to be remixed, I'd love to see these guys live. Jonas Bering - Can't Stop Loving You I've started listening to techno. [...]
Several months ago whilst trawling the net to find grotesque imagery to sate my various fetishes I stumbled across news of a documentary about musical genius Arthur Russell, being a bit of a fan I remember penning a rather excitable email to the producers offering my services should they need to throw a screening or launch party. Of course the eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed that the launch party was the other week and my name was noticeable in its absence on all the promotional material. Apparently they decided to give some young unknowns a break [...]
I realize I'm a little late on this, but since hearing the two stunning (and previously unavailable) Arthur Russell songs recently posted to Audika Records ' myspace page, I haven't really had any desire to listen to much else. " Close My Eyes " and " Eli " will appear on Love Is Overtaking Me , an expansive collection of Russell's unreleased pop, folk, and country songs. The compilation comes out in October, and features mixing, restoration, and editing by Grizzly Bear 's Chris Taylor . Go here to [...]
My Tiger My Timing From: New Cross, London, United Kingdom London foursome My Tiger My Timing, Anna Vincent, James Vincent, Harrison and Gary Drain, are a riddle wrapped up in a mystery covered in a conundrum. How do you define their musical stew of quirky organic rhythms and danceable experimental hypnotic-pop? It transcends boundaries of genre and geography defying categorisation and comparison. [...]
W ow! It was only a year ago we started this blog in our tiny over-priced, Vancooter apartment. We were bored, sitting in rainy downtown and decided to start the site. In that small amount of time we've had over 220,000 hits and had referrals from all over the world including notable sites like and NY Magazine & RollingStone.com . Peoples, labels, and artists alike started reaching out to us. [...]
When I say 'more' I mean I wrote a post about Arthur Russell last year that I'm too lazy to link to. Sasha Frere-Jones described Arthur Russell in a 2004 New Yorker article: "This story begins, as many good ones do, with a gay man from Oskaloosa playing cello in a closet in a Buddhist seminary. It ends with a gentle and brilliant musician dying in New York long before his time. In between, the cellist, Arthur Russell, wrote orchestral music, produced disco hits, and recorded a body of solo cello-and-voice songs that fit somewhere [...]
Dziś strzałów nie będzie. Zaniemogłem, biedactwo. A już myślałem, że po wycięciu migdałków uzyskałem nieśmiertelność. Gówno. W ramach marnego pocieszenia dwa niebieskie klipy. Dziwnie się składa, że w kilku spośród moich ulubionych filmów niebagatelną rolę odgrywa niebo albo woda. Tak jest w 'Gerrym', 'The Wild Blue Yonder' czy w 'Stevie Zissou'. Nie mówiąc o tym, jak nieobojętną jest mi wizja kowboja podążającego w stronę zachodzącego słońca. Konno. Boards Of Canada - Davyan Cowboy [...]
It's obvious to regular readers of BBBD and first-time newbies that this blog is undergoing a massive overhaul and reinvisioning of itself. Today, we present you a new column, Watch, that tries to make sense of the music hype machine. (So now we've three core columns: Watch, Reverse, and Don't Start A Band ... more features will be rolled out in the coming weeks and months.) Music buzzwords pop up with extraordinary regularity -- like daffodils in Summer -- to the benefit of no one in particular . It's of no use to call Sonic Youth an [...]
Last night I had a dream where I was participating in an episode of Law and Order. The case to be solved had to deal with Arthur Russell's death. The ace detective squad somehow decided that he didn't die of AIDS, but that he was murdered, and there were clues in his lyrics leading to the killer. "Hiding You Present From You" was somehow crucial to the plot development of the dream. I believe I was looking around a prison cell for clues while it played dramatically in the background. [...]
NOTHING IS EVER LOST OR CAN BE LOST MY SCIENCE FRIEND Liars They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top Mute : 2002 [Buy It] When I was a kid, drawing was my thing. I started in grade school, first copying pictures out of comic books, then making up my own. But even after I began to draw my own figures, I didn't stop copying - meticulous re-creation appealed to me for reasons I still can't articulate, and photorealistic drawing became my primary [...]
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Photo credit: ichie For years scientists have thought that whales only sleep with one side of the brain at a time. This was thought to be necessary in order for the whale – being unlike us a conscious breathing mammal – to be able to come up for air and stay on the lookout for any possible dangers. The idea behind this was that they never reach unconsciousness like we do while sleeping, but instead only shut down one half of the brain while the other half is still active. The two [...]
I Have Never Known a Grapefruit by Tyler Coates I am almost twenty-five years old and I have never eaten a banana. To my knowledge, I've also never had an orange, or a cherry. Once a girl I had a crush on pressured me into eating a strawberry, but I haven't had one since. I was a [...]
Winter Academy's Review Of The 10th Thessaloníki Documentary Festival Κάποιοι νομίζουν ότι ντοκυμαντέρ σημαίνει σαύρες και δεινόσαυροι σε DVD του National Geographic που δίνει το Βήμα. Κάποιοι άλλοι ότι σημαίνει βασανιστήρια, πόλεμοι, αρρώστιες κι άλλα ωραία και ευχάριστα πράγματα που ξέρεις ότι συμβαίνουν δίπλα μας, αλλά δε θα μπεις κιόλας σε μια κινηματογραφική αίθουσα να τα δεις να χαλαστείς με τέτοιο καιρό, έρχεται και τριήμερο.. Άλλοι πάλι δεν το παίρνουν απόφαση να σηκώσουν τον πωπό τους από τον καναπέ και να γυρίσουν [...]
This is not a list. This is not comprehensive. Just some of the music I enjoyed the most over the last month. albums released in January Black Mountain, In the Future www.myspace.com/blackmountain The Magnetic Fields, Distortion www.myspace.com/themagneticfie lds Times New Viking, Rip It [...]
COME HOME Dismemberment Plan Change De Soto : 2001 [Buy It] THE SCIENCE OF YOUR MIND The Comas Conductor Yep Roc : 2004 [Buy It] ANOTHER THOUGHT Arthur Russell Another Thought Orange Mountain Music : 2006 [Buy It] MOISTWORKS ESSAYTIME CORNER PRESENTS: An excerpt from "Changes of Mind" by Nicholson Baker [...]
Audiversity’s weekly column, slightly modified, on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 74 MA: What a fascinating and endearing set of music Arthur Russell ’s Instrumentals 1974 (especially "InstrumentalsA" ) can be to slightly jaded ears. Russell’s electric cello is buried in the distant corner of the grooving, guitar-woodwind-and-hand percussion mix, but his yearning melodies tint the track a languishing hue. In typical Russell habit, the piece was shelved [...]
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