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Open Vocal Phrases.... Arthur Russell

£33.99 Pre-Order
Genre: Alternative, Indie Pop, and Indie Rock.
Format: 2 Vinyl LP Black

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The double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs That’s The Very Reason, and Too Early to Tell. Side four includes two instrumental tracks from the previously unreleased in the UK “Sketches For World Of Echo” Changing Forest and Sunlit Water.
(+ full colour insert and liner notes)

Tracklisting

A1 - That’s The Very Reason
A2 - Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home

B1 - Happy Ending
B2 - All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down

C1 - Introductions
C2 - Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
C3 - Too Early To Tell

+ from Sketches for World of Echo
D1 - Changing Forest
D2 - Sunlit Water

Condition: Brand New
Release date: Apr 18, 2025
Catalogue number: RT0542LP
Barcode: 0191402054217

"Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out"
Plus the complete "Sketches For World Of Echo" (originally published in 2020 as a cassette and DL) available for the first time on CD.

Tracklisting

Disc One Sketches for World of Echo

1. Changing Forest
2. Let’s Go Swimming
3. They and Their Friends
4. Keeping Up
5. Make 1,2
6. I Take This Time
7. Losing My Taste For The Nightlife
8. I Can’t Hide You
9. The Boy with a Smile On His Face
10. Sunlit Water

Disc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out

1. That’s The Very Reason
2. Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
3. Happy Ending
4. All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
5. Introductions
6. Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
7. Too Early To Tell

Condition: Brand New
Release date: Apr 18, 2025
Catalogue number: RT0542CD
Barcode: 0191402054224

“Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out" offers an intimate unedited solo live performance recorded at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85.
Phill curated and produced with Arthur two concerts at EI that would become an integral part of the foundation for the final World of Echo album.
Arthur titled this performance "Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out".
This extraordinary performance was recorded by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur.
Arthur would later edit sections from this performance merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986.

Format: 2 Vinyl LP Black

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