Arthur Russell

Instrumentals

Audika

The first volume is a mid-seventies masterpiece, Americana touching on Copeland, Ives, and Brian Wilson, with AR ‘re-awakened to the bright-sound and magical qualities of the bubblegum and easy-listening currents in American popular music.’ Volume 2 is a moving, pastoral orchestral work, conducted here by Julius Eastman. Also included are two of Arthur’s most elusive compositions, recorded live in 1975: Reach One is a minimal, hypnotic ambient soundscape for two Fender Rhodes pianos; Sketch For Face Of Helen commemorates his colloborations with Arnold Dreyblatt, recorded with a keyboard, tone generator and — with echoes of Moondog — recordings of a tugboat rumbling across the waters of the Hudson River.

• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 1
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 2
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 2
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 2
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 2
• Instrumentals (1975) Volume 2
• Sketch For Face Of Helen
• Reach One (With Two Fender Rhodes) (1973)