Popcast: Arthur Russell

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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New York Times music critics discuss Mr. Russell’s wide-angle, slow-release significance.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:04.0	podcast, Your Mutron By Phase Pedal of Music Criticism and Analysis.
0:08.0	I'm your host John Perreelis. And you. better answer for us to know.
0:25.0	Coming up by the way to say if those words to,
0:30.0	why stills the use of time
0:32.0	what the answers to time. What the answers is.
0:35.0	And it's all and things.
0:38.0	And we just heard answers me by Arthur Russell, which you may recognize as one of the essential ingredients of
0:46.2	Kagni West's 30 hours. I'm here with Ben Ratliff, who has been into the Arthur Russell Archives,
0:52.2	and let's talk about this composer who keeps
0:55.0	turning up in the strangest places years after he died.
0:58.6	It's an amazing thing.
1:00.6	Arthur Russell was a singer- songwriter, cellist, composer, lived in New York from the early 70s until
1:07.8	1992 when he died at the age of 40, died of AIDS, complications from AIDS.
1:14.0	When he died, he was known to a few as a brilliant and sort of hard to understand musician,
1:23.5	kind of hard to contain, because his interests
1:26.1	were all over the place.
1:27.5	He made great disco records.
1:30.1	He made great sort of country rock records, and he made great sort of country rock records and he made great records that I guess you could
1:36.4	explain by saying they were in the experimental music tradition but...
1:40.1	Well they were minimalism too I I mean, I was around that.
1:43.3	They had something to do with minimalism, for sure.
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