Arthur Russell - Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out

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“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.

"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

Edition Info

• 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.

• 2CD - "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. Double CD digipack with 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

CD Disc One Sketches for World of Echo
Changing Forest
Let’s Go Swimming
They and Their Friends
Keeping Up
Make 1,2
I Take This Time
Losing My Taste For The Nightlife
I Can’t Hide You
The Boy with a Smile On His Face
Sunlit Water

CD Disc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out
That’s The Very Reason
Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
Happy Ending
All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
Introductions
Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
Too Early To Tell

Scheduled: 18 April 2025

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