Arthur Russell - In The Light Of The Miracle

I originally posted about this documentary in June of last year, so it's taken a while for it to finally get shown over here. Check out the website and trailer. Not much more to say except that it's a must see. It's only showing at the ICA for one week so you'll have to book your tickets pretty quick. I like this story by Theo Thonnessen in the sleevenotes to 'I Like It Vol 1' about this particular track though: 'I wonder how dance music of today would sound, without Arthur Russell's influences. This man was definitely ahead of his time. I got this as a white label from Gilles Peterson years ago when he was playing in our club Into Somethin'. Talkin Loud wanted to put out some of Arthur Russell's unreleased tracks at that time. So a limited number of 12" promos were pressed. Somehow it never came out officially. The morning after Gilles' gig, I came home, put 'In the light...' on and listened to it for hours till I fell asleep next to the turntable. My love affair with deep-house began that day."

Arthur Russell - In The Light Of The Miracle

A Mountain Of One - Collected Works

Timeless, beautiful music probably best describes this album. Very hard to describe musically and as you have probably already guessed I'm not too great at describing LP's either. Think of a mixture of the best bits of Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Air, Talk Talk, Arthur Russell, Santana and Midlake and your getting kind of close. Best probably to just listen for yourselves. Drugged out balearic prog-rock maybe? An essential album.

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Arthur Russell - Wild Combination

Sorry about the lack of posts recently. I've come back from holiday and been busy trying to sort stuff out now that I've finished being a student. Not looking forward to entering the real world at all. Anyways, heres a classic track from an artist that I didn't fully appreciate at first in my naive youth but who's work I quickly grew to really love. I highly recommend 'The World Of Arthur Russell' comp that came out on Soul Jazz records a few years back for anyone new to his work and anyone interested in good music in general for that matter. I also recently heard about this which I'm looking forward to. Buy more Arthur Russell, you won't regret it...

Arthur Russell - Wild Combination