Arthur Russell - Come To Life

Arthur Russell is one of them artists that have the power of changing your whole view of music, offering a complete and unique musical universe so rich with ideas and different ways of expressing them that one can easily be overwhelmed.

Russell was a perfectionist with a constant flow of new ideas, ideas which were recorded but mostly not cultivated and perfected for release, thus he is one of the most overlooked and underrated artists in popular music in the late twentieth century.

Nevertheless Russell has been extremly influential on a variety of scenes spanning from disco and modern electronic club music to drony psychedelic folk.

At the turn of the millennium the record label Audika was set up to catalog, master and release some of the hundreds of hours of recorded material Russell left behind when he died from AIDS in 1992.

From the vaults of Audika comes this previoulsy unreleased song - Come To Life - that was released as a digital single by Audika and on 7" vinyl by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, as a split single with Taylor's solo project Cant, on his new found label Terrible Records.

Come To Life is a wonderfully whimsical duet between Russell and I don't know who, blending the rootsy pop of 2008's "Love Is Overtaking Me" and his orchestral work found on "First Thought, Best Thought". It's simply a gift of music for which we must be greatful.

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• roots
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[420dopethrone]

absolutely beautiful. i love arthur russell so much

[whatsthattune]

Genius!!!

[weatherboxlisp]

Wow, what an incredible sound. I'm gonna have to seek this split 7" out, aren't I?