Arthur Russell
Arthur Russell (1951 to 1992) was an American cellist, composer and singer whose music slipped between every category and belonged fully to none. Trained in Buddhist study and Indian classical music in California, he moved to New York, briefly directed the Kitchen, played with Philip Glass and the minimalists, and at the same time made some of the most inventive disco of the era as Dinosaur L and Loose Joints. His songs, cello fed through delay and his soft, doubling voice, appeared on scattered singles and the album World of Echo (1986); the rest stayed on hundreds of unfinished tapes.
Arthur Russell (1951 to 1992) was an American cellist, composer and singer whose music slipped between every category and belonged fully to none. Trained in Buddhist study and Indian classical music in California, he moved to New York, briefly directed the Kitchen, played with Philip Glass and the minimalists, and at the same time made some of the most inventive disco of the era as Dinosaur L and Loose Joints. His songs, cello fed through delay and his soft, doubling voice, appeared on scattered singles and the album World of Echo (1986); the rest stayed on hundreds of unfinished tapes.
