12. Arthur RussellWorld Of Echo
I think Charlie Bones on NTS got me and many other people into Arthur Russell by playing him relentlessly on his show. It’s a joint love of mine and my wife Louise’s. Arthur Russell is kind of a god, isn’t he? He was so ahead of his time. Even now, when you listen to his records, it sounds like we’re still not quite ready for them. They still need locking away for 30 years until they have more evolved versions of humans. It’s a bit like that Bill & Ted thing when they made their music but we’re not quite there yet. What I find really amazing about his records is that I’ve never heard the same record sound the same twice. Every time you hear it, you end up taking a different path through it as if someone’s playing two records at the same time, creating this kind of mess. You have to find the record within it yourself while listening and you never do it the same twice. You have to work with it, in a strange way, in order to be able to hear the beauty in it. You can’t just sit back and relax. You have to get involved with it.
