CD: Arthur Russell: Love is Overtaking Me

Arthur Russell trained as a cellist but became a New York disco auteur, collaborating with Talking Heads and Philip Glass, among others, and filling dancefloors with his proto-garage music. He would surely have been better known in his lifetime had an acute perfectionism not kept him from finishing recordings. Culled from the 1,000 tapes he left behind on his death in 1992, this collection showcases an immense, eclectic talent. A world away from Studio 54, these stripped-down recordings recall N...

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