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Arthur Russell
Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In And Out (Live 12/20/85)
Rough Trade
- Cat No: RT0542LP
- updated:2025-04-28
1985年の12月20日NYCダウンタウンのExperimental Intermedia財団での、アーサー・ラッセルのソロ・ライブ・パフォーマンスがアナログリリースされました。名作『ワールド・オブ・エコー』の元となる録音を含む貴重な音源。
Track List
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A1. That's The Very Reason (Live 12/20/85)
2:57 -
A2. Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit's Ear/Home Away From Home (Live 12/20/85)
19:29 -
B1. Happy Ending (Live 12/20/85)
4:07 -
B2. All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can't Hold Me Down (Live 12/20/85)
9:08 -
C1. Introductions (Live 12/20/85)
0:38 -
C2. Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell (Live 12/20/85)
11:24 -
C3. Too Early To Tell (Live 12/20/85)
7:37 -
D1. Changing Forest (Live 6/24/84)
13:32 -
D2. Sunlit Water (Live 6/24/84)
10:21
Double LP with full color insert and liner notes.
"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 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. Side four of the vinyl includes two instrumental tracks from "Sketches For World Of Echo", "Changing Forest" and "Sunlit Water"
“Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn’t play ‘for’ the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself…and a few of us just happened to be present.” – Tom Lee
"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 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. Side four of the vinyl includes two instrumental tracks from "Sketches For World Of Echo", "Changing Forest" and "Sunlit Water"
“Some of it sounds so pure and clear and I am picturing him huddled around all that gear, simply magical. In my memory he didn’t play ‘for’ the audience but was rather trying to perfect these various permutations of sound within himself…and a few of us just happened to be present.” – Tom Lee
フィル・ニボックとアーサー・ラッセル自身の企画・プロデュースで『Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in and Out』と題され、EIで開催された２つのコンサートの記録。アーサー・ラッセルこの録音の一部と、バッテリーサウンドで録音された演奏をミックス、エディットして融合させ『ワールド・オブ・エコー』を完成させ、翌年にリリースしています。彼の晩年のパートナーで、近年の再発プロジェクトの多くを監修してきたTOM LEEは『いくつかの曲はとてもピュアでクリアなサウンドで、彼が機材の周りに身を寄せ合い、ただ魔法のように演奏している姿が目に浮かぶようだ。私の記憶では、彼は聴衆のために 「演奏していた 」のではなく、自分の中で様々な音の組み合わせを完成させようとしていた。』と記しています。 (サイトウ)