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In The Light Of The Miracle - Remixes (First Time On Vinyl!)

LP - £23.99 | Buy
FINALLY! The very first commercial release of two legendary remixes of Arthur Russell's "In The Light Of The Miracle".
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Picture of Bunny Rabbit

limited lp - £22.99 | Buy
a new album of previously unreleased World Of Echo era material by Arthur Russell recorded in 1985/86.
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Love Is Overtaking Me (2022 reissue)

limited 2lp - 1 per customer - £26.99 | Buy
‘Love Is Overtaking Me’, originally released in 2008 comprises 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk and country songs from Arthur&rs...
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iowa dream (2021 reissue)

cd - £11.99 | Buy
At once kaleidoscopic and intimate, Iowa Dream bears some of Russell’s most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote durin...
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corn

cd - £15.99 | Buy
It’s here – arguably the most important reissue of Russell’s work since 2004’s Calling Out Of Context.
Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out

2LP
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

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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

2CD
"Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out". Plus the complete "Sketches For World Of Echo", available for the first time on CD.

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Disc One Sketches for World of Echo
1.    Changing Forest
2.    Let’s Go Swimming
3.    They and Their Friends
4.    Keeping Up
5.    Make 1,2
6.    I Take This Time
7.    Losing My Taste For The Nightlife
8.    I Can’t Hide You
9.    The Boy with a Smile On His Face
10.    Sunlit Water
 
Disc Two Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come in and Out
1.    That’s The Very Reason
2.    Tower Of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away From Home
3.    Happy Ending
4.    All-Boy All-Girl/Tiger Stripes/You Can’t Hold Me Down
5.    Introductions
6.    Hiding Your Present From You/School Bell
7.    Too Early To Tell
 

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Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In and Out

Rough Trade
  • 2LP with insert (9 Tracks)

    Released: 18th Apr 2025

    £33.99
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  • 2CD with insert (17 Tracks)

    Released: 18th Apr 2025

    £14.99
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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