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	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events
		Russell’s work is stranded between lands real and imagined: the street and the cornfield; the soft bohemian New York and the hard Studio 54 New York; the cheery bold strokes of pop and the liberating possibilities of abstract art.
		Russell’s recording sessions were a departure from the average hit-making process: they were closer in principle to jazz than to pop or dance.
		Russell’s solo songs have a less conventional instrumentation than his disco records but, true to his contrarian tendencies, they are generally catchier and shorter, sometimes flirting with traditional verse-chorus movement.
	newyorker.com /critics/music/?040308crmu_music (1518 words)

	The Many Faces, and Grooves, of Arthur Russell
		Russell was messing with the real thing, going into a different world and making legitimate dance music with the Ingram Brothers, a Philadelphia-based rhythm section that had become a first-call unit for R and B studio sessions.
		Russell's work had no aggression in it whatsoever, but patience and kindness instead; this is one of the reasons it doesn't now feel stuck in its time.
		The music was made with only Russell's voice and cello; as he played and sang, he manipulated a few effects boxes to saturate the music with echo, boost the low range, turn the bouncing of his bow on the strings into a kind of quiet drum.
	www.downintheflood.com /BobDylan/NYT/NYT040229.html (1630 words)

	Arthur Russell: Calling Out of Context - PopMatters Music Review
		Arthur Russell was of those anomalous personalities whose contribution to music was characterized by its stubborn resistance to rote categorization and over-determined response.
		Russell was born in 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
		For Russell, there is an emptiness that lurks behind even his most pop-filled arrangements, the undeniable presence of a void that can be dolled up with noise, but can never be truly filled.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/r/russellarthur-calling.shtml (890 words)

	Arthur Russell (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell was born and raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he later studied the cello and began to write his own music.
		In 1982, Arthur Russell and William Socolov founded Sleeping Bag records and their first release was his 24-24 Music.
		Arthur Russell died of AIDS on April 4, 1992, at the age of 40.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Russell_(cellist) (671 words)

	Vu d'ici - Seen from here Blog & Podcast: Weekly obsession: Arthur Russell's fragile art-disco genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Russell is one of these genius who was here for a short but-so-fu***-creative and busy period.
		Arthur Russell was the most maddening kind of genius: the kind who produces mountains of extraordinary work, and can barely ever actually finish it.
		Russell's lyrics are about emotional awkwardness and overwhelmedness, human bodies being human in motion and in water and in beds.
	www.mcturgeon.com /blog/archives/2004/07/weekly_obsessio_3.html (439 words)

	CMT.com : Arthur Russell : Biography
		Arthur Russell was a formally trained cellist and composer with a background in Indian classical music, and a résumé highlighted by collaborations with
		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.
		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.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/russell_arthur/bio.jhtml (580 words)

	Cello - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An exception are Apocalyptica, a group of cellists best known for their versions of heavy metal songs.
		Another great example is Rasputina, a group of three female cellists committed to an intricate cello style intermingled with Gothic music.
		The principal, or "first chair" cellist is the best cellist in the orchestra.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cello (1351 words)

	The Estate Project
		In the early 1970's Arthur Russell moved to California and studied Indian music at the Ali Akbar Khan School in San Francisco.
		During the mid 1980's Russell gave many performances, either accompanying himself on cello with a myriad of effects, or working with a small ensemble consisting of Mustafa Ahmed, Steven Hall, Elodie Lauten and Peter Zummo.
		When Arthur Russell died of AIDS on April 4, 1992 at the age of 40, he left behind an enormous amount of professionally recorded material.
	www.artistswithaids.org /artforms/music/catalogue/russell.html (816 words)

	frieze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Russell - cellist, avant-garde composer, disco producer, would-be singer-songwriter, gay Buddhist from Iowa - has returned: unreleased and long out-of-print recordings are suddenly available.
		Russell died of complications from AIDS in 1992, leaving behind hundreds of unfinished tapes.
		Russell's own vocals play a small role in these songs, pushed to the background, chanting quietly amid the lovely chaos.
	www.frieze.com /column_single.asp?c=192 (950 words)

	A Long Lost Arthur Russell Interview
		Within minutes of meeting Arthur Russell, disco stylist, cellist and avant-garde composer, I've closeted myself in the toilet of his East Village pad, trying to surreptitiously remove the remains of the doggy doo, a present from the streets of Alphabet City.
		Arthur is plainly ill at ease, all the more so when I jokingly comment on the two cents CBS royalty cheque (part payment for a track called "That Hat" written for Peter Gordon of Love Of Life Orchestra fame, on his last album "Innocent").
		Arthur Russell, much of whose work is repetitive and who is often asked "Why can't you have a beginning, middle and an end?h remembers playing a Hamilton Bohannon record to an Italian friend.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=6138137 (4802 words)

	Arthur Russell (1951-1992)
		Arthur Russell died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992.
		Arthur Russell (Oskaloosa, Iowa 1951-April 4, 1992) was a gay cellist, composer, and disco artist.
		Arthur Russell was an avant garde cellist who was also active in club music, after being introduced to it by Nicky Siano.
	www.jahsonic.com /ArthurRussell.html (3424 words)

	Audika Records
		When Arthur Russell died in 1992 he left an overwhelming archive of over a 1000 tapes that reveal the sublime genius of one of the most important musicians of the last 25 years.
		As a cellist, songwriter, composer, and disco visionary Arthur Russell consistently blurred the lines of our expectations of what pop music could be.
		Originally from Iowa, Arthur travelled west in 1970 to study Indian classical composition with Ali Akbar Khan, befriended Allen Ginsberg, performed with Alice Coltrane, and then moved to New York in 1973 to study at the Manhattan School of Music.
	www.audikarecords.com /russell_2.html (382 words)

	Browse by Artist: RUSSELL, ARTHUR
		Arthur imagined that his music could be universally accepted in each and every one of them.
		When Russell dies of AIDS in 1992 at the age of 40, the Village Voice wrote, 'his songs were so personal that it seems as though he simply vanished into his music.
		Arthur Russell died in 1992 from AIDS leaving behind an enormous body of work.
	forcedexposure.com /artists/russell.arthur.html (1971 words)

	Arthur Russell - World of Echo - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Russell had commented that "in outer space you can't take your drums—you take your mind," and the half-dreams contained on the record are informed strongly by rhythm, but a subtle, internal rhythm that verges closer to a celestial synchronicity rather than the sweaty, pelvic bombast of the dance floor.
		It sounds often as if Russell is improvising, a child meandering down the road after school singing aimlessly and without haste, each shuffling step disappearing behind him in a distorted swirl, each pebble kicked producing another metallic, reverberant knock.
		In the end, Russell's exploration created Yet Another Green World, a warm, intoxicating landscape of hologram trees, vaguely sweet-smelling chemical fogs, unrecognizable shadows flinching in the periphery of vision, and rustling bushes of glass, all contained under imperceptibly pulsing constellations of frequencies in a vacuumed-out sky of static wind—a world only available to brave alone.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/arthur-russell/world-of-echo.htm (465 words)

	Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought - Review - Stylus Magazine
		That is, his start as a classically trained cellist who studied Indian music with Ali Akbar Khan and, after his move to New York, his work with minimal composers such as Philip Glass and Rhys Chatham.
		In his notes from the original release, Russell writes that it hints at “the popular radio sound of the future.” I have not one clue what he could have meant by this.
		Sections of the compositions begin and end so abruptly that you might think there was a fault with the tape machine that recorded the performance if the sleeve notes didn’t reassure that “abrupt beginnings, endings and edits… are intentional.” Sounds pass by like a drowsy view from the window of a moving car.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=3958 (605 words)

	Arthur Russell: Another Thought: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And as suggested by the album's cover photo-- which depicts Russell nonchalantly sporting a newspaper pirate hat-- there's a boyish innocence and playful romanticism to many of these tracks, resulting in some of the warmest and most intimate performances of his career.
		These days, Arthur Russell's creative legacy seems to be in better health than ever, and with labels like Audika continuing to unearth previously unreleased Russell material it seems like it could be a long time before there's any need to finish writing his epitaph.
		Russell's most personal and radical statement consists simply of his folksy tenor, cello, and scant electronic microtones-- all lathered with echo, distortion, and reverb.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/38310/Arthur_Russell_Another_Thought (744 words)

	village voice > music > The World of Arthur Russell by Douglas Wolk
		Once you get used to the sound of Russell's cello, which is generally not all that cello-like, you notice it all over his records: the cat-purr buzz that electrifies "The Platform on the Ocean," the phlegmy bend-and-snap of "Pop Your Funk," the whispering rasp at the edges of his more songwriterly pieces.
		Russell died of AIDS in 1992, after spending the second half of the '80s endlessly working and reworking and never finishing an album of pop songs.
		Russell's singing always seemed to be mostly for his own enjoyment (when it creeps into "Is It All Over My Face," late in the song, the effect is like Glenn Gould humming along with The Goldberg Variations), but hearing it here almost feels like eavesdropping.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0410/wolk.php (671 words)

	Arthur Russell - AOL Music
		When Arthur Russell died of AIDS on April 4, 1992, at the age of 40, the obituary for...
		Arthur Russell was a musical wanderer best known as a disco producer, but understanding his place in the history of disco calls for a renegotiation of terms...
		In the mid 1970s, Arthur Russell moved to New York and began study at The Manhattan...
	music.aol.com /artist/arthur-russell/3052/main (176 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: RUSSELL, ARTHUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In that brief period Arthur met and worked with several musicians and poets that would guide his work throughout the remainder of the decade: Allen Ginsburg, Christian Wolff, Jackson MacLow, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, Elodie Lauten, and Ernie Brooks.
		Springfield is one of the last compositions Russell wrote in his all too-short lifetime.
		Russell recorded over four hours of tracking with the intention of collaborating with a producer for completion.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/russell.arthur.html (1044 words)

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		Arthurs open hearted attitude to music was far ahead of its time, and now that time is ours." - Audika.
		Arthurs aim was to achieve what he calls the most vivid rhythmic reality, with just cello, voice, and echoes.
		First Thought Best Thought collects Arthur Russells out of print instrumental and orchestral compositions along with over 45 minutes of previously-unreleased material on two CDs. 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.
	www.fusetronsound.com /index.php?whomlab=Audika (1106 words)

	Tim Lawrence Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tim: Arthur and Walter Gibbons ⎯ those are the two music makers from the seventies/eighties that I really want to write about in a bit more detail.
		Russell had had quite a year, even though he died (from complications arising from Aids) in 1992.
		We talked Arthur and by the end of the trip it was clear that there was the potential for a captivating and illuminating book.
	www.timlawrence.info /books/russell.php (781 words)

	Dinosaur - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Under the name Dinosaur, avant-garde cellist/composer Arthur Russell and a number of his New York City based associates were responsible for the first disco single released on Sire.
		In 1982, Russell and William Socolov founded the Sleeping Bag label, which would become an influential independent rap label with releases from Mantronix and EPMD.
		Russell's involvement with dance music fizzled out in the latter half of the '80s, but he continued to work in avant-garde circles until his death in 1992.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1684631,00.html (385 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Arthur Russell: biography, discography, reviews, links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iowa-born San Francisco-educated but New York-resident Arthur Russell (1952) was a cellist who composed chamber music inspired to Indian ragas, or "Buddhist bubblegum music".
		At the same time, Russell was an avantgarde composer of minimalist music, as documented on the neoclassical seven-movement suite Tower Of Meaning (Chatam Square, 1983) and the orchestral Instrumentals (Crepuscule, 1984), both later compiled on First Thought Best Thought (Audika, 2006).
		Russell died of AIDS in 1992, leaving almost 1,000 hours of music unreleased, some of it collected on Calling Out Of Context (Audika, 2004).
	www.scaruffi.com /vol4/russell.html (191 words)

	Arthur Russell: The World of Arthur Russell: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There appears to be a typo on the usually on-point Soul Jazz label, in that an 'S' is missing from the title of their attempted overview of the enigmatic New York scene cellist Arthur Russell.
		If anything, there were many musical "worlds" for Iowa-born Arthur Russell, and he floated between them effortlessly in a way that, up until death from AIDS in 1992, no one else had.
		The bowed solo in the middle is astonishingly lyrical and emotionally direct, and the final few seconds of his double-tracked voice singing the chorus is a delight.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/21468/Arthur_Russell_The_World_of_Arthur_Russell (1014 words)

	Kanye West - The College Dropout - Arthur Russell - New York Pop Music Review
		As its title implies, The World of Arthur Russell is a broad, survey-style take on Russell’s career; that doesn’t mean, however, that any of it will be familiar outside of a small circle of disco obsessives.
		Russell was far more at ease fusing his interests on the unreleased tracks that make up Calling Out, smartly curated by longtime admirer Steve Knutson, and like a good Buddhist, he did more with less.
		Russell crafts hypnotic sonics (tabla playing, a serrated keyboard sound) that are repeated over and over or simply held steady—and the effect is something like an electronic om.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymag/critics/pop/n_9951 (640 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur Russell is one of those people who was everywhere yet somehow eluded fame.
		What I find to be the most fascinating aspect of Russell's musical output is his strange cello and echo drenched vocal pop music.
		A little lost is also available on the recently issued A World of Arthur Russell, which also showcases his early disco output.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=12132323&postID=111561231294190599 (202 words)

	A First Thought Is Never Finished - April 11, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Over the last few years, the New York-based Audika label has been issuing and reissuing the work of the late cellist, vocalist, and composer Arthur Russell, a somewhat obscure figure in the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and '80s.
		The latest piece of the Russell puzzle from Audika is "First Thought Best Thought," a double CD that pairs Russell's two long-unavailable LP releases, "Instrumentals" Volume 2 (1984) and "Tower of Meaning" (1983) with bonus tracks.
		Here Russell plays jazzy pop jams with cohorts, including such rockers as Ernie Brooks (then the bassist with Jonathan Richman's Modern Lovers) and Andy Paley (of the Sidewinders and Paley Brothers) as well as such avant-garde types as Peter Gordon, percussionist David Van Tiegham, and Jon Gibson (reedman for Mr.
	www.nysun.com /article/30756 (914 words)

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