The late singer-songwriter, composer and cellist’s Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out arrives this month.
A new album compiling live recordings of Arthur Russell has been announced for posthumous release.
Entitled Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out, the newly excavated project groups concert recordings from the late singer-songwriter, composer and cellist captured by Steve Cellum during a performance for Phill Niblock’s Downtown New York City-based Experimental Intermedia Foundation in December 1985. A number of the comprising live recording materials – which include renditions of ‘Tower Of Meaning’, ‘Home Away From Home’, ‘All-Boy All-Girl’ and more – were previously edited by Russell and merged with studio recordings tracked at Battery Sound to form his seminal 1986 full-length album World Of Echo.
Stream and view the track list for Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out below.
Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out
1 ‘That’s the Very Reason’ (Live 12/20/85)
2 ‘Tower of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home’ (Live 12/20/85)
3 ‘Happy Ending’ (Live 12/20/85)
4 ‘All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down’ (Live 12/20/85)
5 ‘Introductions’ (Live 12/20/85)
6 ‘Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell’ (Live 12/20/85)
7 ‘Too Early To Tell’ (Live 12/20/85)
8 ‘Changing Forest’ (Live 6/24/84)
9 ‘Sunlit Water’ (Live 6/24/84)
Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out is out now digitally via Audika Records and Rough Trade Records. Pre-order the album on vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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