Comments on: Wild Combination :: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

By: Aquarium Drunkard: Music Blog » Dinosaur :: Kiss Me Again 12″ (Side A)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:29:09 +0000

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By: The Pitchfork 500 - Candido To Goblin « Loft And Lost

The Pitchfork 500 - Candido To Goblin « Loft And Lost — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:56:27 +0000

[...] was a band put together by cellist Arthur Russell and DJ Nicky Siano, and featured the likes of David Byrne on guitar. Russell was classically [...]

By: matthb

matthb — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:18:28 +0000

Like M. Ward, Rachel’s, MMJ and so many others, he will never be as well known as he should. Thanks for keeping him in the public memory.

By: Arthur Russell - That’s Us/Wild Combination « TenaciousT

Arthur Russell - That’s Us/Wild Combination « TenaciousT — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:44:34 +0000

[...] Aquarium Drunkard has a short post about the documentary A Portrait Of Arthur Russell along with Eli and I [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:11:01 +0000

Great post, and good to see that Arthur Russell is undergoing a bit of a renaissance.

By: Funky Rutabaga

Funky Rutabaga — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:50:28 +0000

While I have not yet acquired (and downloaded) Love Is Overtaking me, I did download Calling Out Of Context, documenting Russell’s mid 80s oeuvre. Russell is phenomenal, and evokes a John Maus of the 70s and 80s, possessing a voice that is a perfect fusion of Antony Hegarty and Nick Drake. Russell is the pioneer of the concept of genre transcending – still relatively obscure and most recently used on Merriweather Post Pavillion – and in Russell’s case, it is gorgeous and masterful.