Monday, 1 February 2010

Arthur Russell Reinterpreted

Enigmatic avant disco cellist Arthur Russell has long been a favorite of mine so it was cool to be pointed towards this....


One of our students works in a group called Killer Whale who reinterpret Arthur Russell's music, really finding the dance floor sensibility in his sometimes obscure structures. He was famously given a chance to record for Rough Trade, who were looking for a dance floor smash and instead handed them the polyrhythmic Let's Go Swimming which was so complex you could not dance to it...



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