Two Arthur Russell 12" singles
 

Two Arthur Russell 12" singles that Toop says represent the "apex" of Arthur Russell's collaborations with Walter Gibbons (figure from 1970s New York dub scene)
 
"Let's Go Swimming" // "Treehouse/School Bell"
 
"convoluted slitherings of sharp sounds, chopped and dislocated; antipathetic to the modular, even-number construction of disco; formed in the eternal shape of the self-devouring Uroborus dragon of alchemy, a flow without beginning or end; contrasting/merging the developmental improvisation of Indian ragas with the hypnotic, human-interlock accretions of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Nigerian Afro-funk"
> from David Toop's Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (1995)

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> created October 19, 2023 at 11:04:29 AM


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