Arthur Russell - Aquarium Drunkard

Welcome back to Transmissions. We're still buzzing from this last weekend, which saw a live taping of Transmissions at The Philosophical Research Society, the Los Angeles campus founded in 1934 by esoteric scholar Manly Palmer Hall, featuring Matt Marble, an artist, author, audio producer and director of the American Museum of Paramusicology. The post Transmissions :: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell...

In 2011 Strut Records released Arthur's Landing , a 13 track collection of (largely) unreleased materiel composed by Arthur Russell. Brought to life via former musical collaborators and compatriots, Peter Zummo, Elodie Lauten, Ernie Brooks, Bill Ruyle, Alex [...] The post Arthur’s Landing :: Singing Tractors 64 first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard .

Arthur Russell died in 1992. Myth-making being what it is, nearly two decades after his death, the artist is presently more well known than he ever was during his lifetime. Typical. Over the past few months I've [...] The post Dinosaur :: Kiss Me Again 12″ (Side A) first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard .

With such a varied and eclectic oeuvre it is easy to get lost in the Arthur Russell universe. The man not only dabbled in, but at times reinvented, genres as disparate at electronica, free jazz, classical, disco, [...] The post Wild Combination :: A Portrait of Arthur Russell first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard .