Arthur Russell - Let's Go Swimming 12" OG white label
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Jan 6, 2010 Sold Date
Jan 1, 2010 Start Date
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Arthur Russell - Let's Go Swimming
Label:Rough Trade (UK)
Catalog#:RTT 184
Format:Vinyl, 12"

Country:UK
Released:1986
Genre:Electronic
Style:Leftfield, Experimental, Disco
Tracklist
A   Let's Go Swimming (Coastal Dub) 7:50 
    Mixed By - Walter Gibbons 
B1   Let's Go Swimming (Gulf Stream Dub) 5:15 
B2   Let's Go Swimming (Puppy Surf Dub) 4:51

Very rare white label in stickered sleeve.  Original pressing.  There is a red shape stuck onto the centre label on one side - this appears to be intentional?!

 

Condition vinyl: VG+

Condition sleeve: VG+

 

A skinny kid from Oskaloosa, Iowa comes to New York in 1973 to join the burgeoning new music scene after studying Indian music at the Ali Akbar Khan school in San Francisco. A skilled cello player, vocalist, and keyboardist, he studies at the Manhattan School of Music and within 2 years delivers a landmark concert of modern music at Sohos's famed kitchen. Philip Glass was in the audience and later composed music for the play "cascando" specifically for him to perform.

Simultaneously Arthur has a vision of fusing all music - serious, pop, dance etc. and brings his avant - compositional chops to bear on what the serious music mavens consider to be the highest form of art : Dance Music.

With two definitive cult jams under his belt, on the radio and on the charts (Dinosaur L's "Go Bang" on sleeping bag and Loose Joints "Is it all over my face?" on West End) our man decides to apply the same principles to rock. He records "Kiss me again" under the name Dinosaur on Sire (David Byrne appears on the record) and joins the seminal new wave group The Necessaries (with former Modern Lover Ernie Brooks) delivering one classic album on Sire. Hating the rigorous touring grind, he suddenly quits The Necessaries by bolting out the door of their van, cello in hand, en route to a gig somewhere in New Jersey. 4th and Broadway releases "Tell you Today" an out-take from the original Loose Joints sessions, as their first release, and he withdraws to further concentrate on neo-classical music ("Instrumental" on Crepescule and "Tower of Meaning" on Chatham Square). Simultaneously, he perfects his self-contained cello/vocal performance, which he takes on the road as a virtual one man band, combining complex structures, feedback harmonies, and interlacing them with sumptuous, almost devotional vocals.

Now, on September 22 1986, Rough Trade Records is proud to bring Arthur Russell out from the aegis of psuedonymous dance productions and into the spotlight with his own name with a new 12" dance release "Let's Go Swimming". With a remix by legendary Walter Gibbons (Strafe's "Set if Off"), this record is just a taste of the musical brilliance which Arthur posesses in abundance. "Let's Go Swimming" isn't Hip Hop, House or any easily categorised offshoot, but rocks like crazy.

Arthur Russell - a true unsung pioneer of the New York underground music scene - the twilight world where rock, dance, and experimantal music overlap has been a best kept secret.... but not any longer.

 

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