{"id":621446,"date":"2024-05-22T17:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-new-arthur-russell-book-complicates-a-mythic-legacy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:29:20","slug":"a-new-arthur-russell-book-complicates-a-mythic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-new-arthur-russell-book-complicates-a-mythic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"#A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n #content_block-261829 {\n   background: #daf2d1;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-261829 {\n   background: #daf2d1;\n   margin-bottom: 60px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-title, article.custom .custom-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> .caption {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .custom-attribution, article.custom .custom-attribution a {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261829\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      Richard King, author of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a>s Over Feeling: Arthur Russell \u2013 A Life<\/i>, discusses capturing the cult hero\u2019s strange, slippery essence through narration, oral history, and archival artifacts.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\"triple_gutter_left triple_gutter_right image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/AR_9.1_corra_1_1_q8xxfo\/arthur-russell-during-a-family-holiday-in-minnesota-1986-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Arthur Russell during a family holiday in Minnesota, 1986. Photo by Tom Lee via Arthur Russell Estate.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\"><!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2024%2F05%2F22%2Ftravels-over-feeling-arthur-russell-a-life-richard-king-interview%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=A%20new%20Arthur%20Russell%20book%20complicates%20a%20mythic%20legacy&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" data-ga-on=\"click\" data-ga-event-action=\"cilck\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\"><!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\"><!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261830\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">Richard King<\/span> remembers vividly the first time he heard Arthur Russell\u2019s music. It was 1994, and King was in his mid-20s, working at Revolver Records in Bristol. <i>Another Thought<\/i>, the album in question, was brand new at the time, released two years after Russell died of AIDS at 40. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cI had no context in which to place this strange recording,\u201d King writes \u2014 in reference to the album\u2019s acoustic opener\/title track \u2014 in the introduction to <i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhywelking.com\/travels-over-feeling\">Travels Over Feeling<\/a><\/i>, his new book on Russell\u2019s life. \u201cIt sounded both ethereal and earthy. The voice and the tone of the cello were in perfect balance and the sense of space surrounding them felt tangible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Of \u201cIn the Light of the Miracle,\u201d a an Afrobeat-influenced mid-album track that heavily features agog\u00f4 bells, he writes, \u201c[I] was struck by the realization that not only was this music I had not heard before, but it was also music I must have hoped had always existed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261831\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arthur Russell - Another Thought\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1mMCBZzk98I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261831');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261832\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            18 years later, King published his first book of nonfiction, <i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhywelking.com\/how-soon-is-now\">How Soon Is Now?<\/a><\/i>, documenting British rock\u2019s transition from independent to \u201cindie\u201d in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In the ensuing decade, he\u2019d go on to write about his time at Revolver (<i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhywelking.com\/original-rockers\">Original Rockers<\/a><\/i>), the evolution of Britain\u2019s culture\u2019s relationship with the natural world (<i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhywelking.com\/the-lark-ascending\">The Lark Ascending<\/a><\/i>), and an era of turbulence in his native Wales (<i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhywelking.com\/brittle-with-relics\">Brittle With Relics: A History of Wales, 1962\u201397<\/a><\/i>). It was Audika Records founder <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/steve.audika\/\">Steve Knutson<\/a> who first floated the idea of King writing about Russell and invited him to visit the Arthur Russell Archive to see if there was a book to be made. (Audika has worked closely with Russell\u2019s estate since 2002.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Poring over thousands of documents from Russell\u2019s life in the basement of the New York Public Library almost three decades after his initial experience with <i>Another Thought<\/i>, King found the purpose of <i>Travels Over Feeling<\/i>: \u201cI didn\u2019t try to take ownership of any kind of narrative or interpretation of Arthur\u2019s life,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI wanted it to be wide open. I wanted, if such a thing is possible without coming directly from him, for him to be present in his own words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            The resulting pages are a triumph of intermedia storytelling. They feature photographs, letters, show bills, and other documents from the archive, as well as quotes from his family, friends, lovers, and collaborators \u2014 including famed minimalist Philip Glass, drone master Phill Niblock, and Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis \u2014 presented as oral history alongside mostly limited, neutral prose. <\/p>\n<p>            Even in the book\u2019s introduction, the only place where he inserts himself as anything more than a dutiful narrator, King gets straight to the point, summing up Russell\u2019s birth and death in the section\u2019s first two sentences and addressing a misguided belief about the circumstances of his later years in the following line. \u201cArthur Russell was born on May 21, 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa,\u201d he writes. \u201cHe died in New York City on April 4, 1992, aged forty, of complications arising from AIDS. Russell\u2019s life ended neither in obscurity nor failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261833\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-2_nippoi\/arthur-russell-top-and-his-longtime-partner-tom-lee-photo-by-tom-lee-via-arthur-russell-estate.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Arthur Russell (top) and his longtime partner Tom Lee. Photo by Tom Lee via Arthur Russell Estate.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261834\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            On a video call a month after <i>Travel Over Feeling<\/i>\u2019s publication, King and I discussed Russell\u2019s messy brilliance, eschewing the titillating in pursuit of the true, and the necessary work of battling history\u2019s tendency to flatten complex lives into neat narrative arcs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261835\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: Tell me about your first visit to the Arthur Russell Archives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Richard King:<\/b> It was the week New York opened after the pandemic: Thanksgiving week, 2021. BLM had come through town, Trump had come and gone, the pandemic had come and gone, and I arrived there not having really been anywhere for the best part of 18 months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I know it wasn\u2019t everywhere in America, but there\u2019s that New York thing where people just do what they need to do, and if you have to wear a mask, you wear a damn mask. Also, everywhere stank of weed, there was a huge homeless problem, and it was really cold. The combination of weed, masks, and homelessness was quite apocalyptic. I was there for six or seven days. I flew back on Thanksgiving, and there were like four of us on the plane. <\/p>\n<p>            Going to the NYPL at Lincoln Center in that atmosphere, sifting through the boxes and boxes of Arthur\u2019s life, wearing a mask and everyone being distanced, the time travel required to go back through Arthur\u2019s life was quite easy to access. And it wasn\u2019t hard to immerse myself in East 12th Street [(where Arthur lived during his New York years)] either, because everyone\u2019s reality was quite weird anyway. I don\u2019t know if it made too much difference, but it was certainly exciting to get such a sense of Arthur\u2019s life when the city was free of tourists and things were still not quite there. Opening all those boxes felt like being let in on a secret, and being in New York at that time felt like being let in on a secret.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-261839,  #content_block-261839 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-261839 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261839\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cHe was just a very complicated, strange person; he wasn\u2019t an apostle walking among us. He was all the things we want him to be, and more, and less.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261837\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Did you do any research outside the library \u2014 interviews, visits to the places Arthur frequented \u2014 on your trips to New York?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I went and stood outside his apartment for hours. I made four trips, and on each trip I went and just stood there. I went to East 12th Street each time and walked around the neighborhood, went to Tompkins Square Park. You don\u2019t really have it in America, but there\u2019s this sort of ropey thing called psychogeography in Britain where people go for long walks and think about the history of the place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But most everyone I spoke to, I spoke to on Zoom. What was great about that was we could look at pictures from the archive together. I could say to [Russell\u2019s collaborator and friend] Peter Gordon, \u201cDo you remember this show?\u201d For people who\u2019d been asked about Arthur a zillion times, it was more interesting for them. It wasn\u2019t just an hour of, \u201cTell me what you think about Arthur.\u201d It was, \u201cCan you please explain what this track take was in a strange club in New Jersey on a Wednesday? What was Loose Joints doing?\u201d And then Ernie [Brooks (a former Modern Lovers member who played in many of Arthur&#8217;s bands)], or whoever sang it, would say, \u201cIt was just Arthur and a cello and it was horrible, but $500 was a lot of money.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261836\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-1_1_dm7mrf\/arthur-russell-s-original-a-target-_new-href-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-otnofstvefe-eli-a-sheet-music-scan-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Arthur Russell\u2019s original \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OtnOfstvefE\">Eli<\/a>\u201d sheet music. Scan courtesy of The Arthur Russell Papers.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261840\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Beyond Arthur\u2019s sister, partner, ex, and close friends, you included quotes from only a select few of his peers who saw success outside the experimental downtown scene. How did you decide which voices were necessary to tell his story?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Arthur wasn\u2019t especially a fan of no wave or punk. But inevitably, with history, things get elided and squashed together that don\u2019t quite fit. [When I say I\u2019m writing about] Arthur, quite a few people haven\u2019t heard of him over here [in London]. And if I say, \u201cNew York, but he made disco,\u201d people say, \u201cAh, Studio 54,\u201d and I go, \u201cNo, no, not at all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            Then I start trying to describe the loft and Paradise Garage and the Mug club, and I have to describe that he wasn\u2019t really a scenester. Everyone knew who he was, so he was kind of on the scene, but it\u2019s all so specifically\u2026 It\u2019s just him, really. You can\u2019t define him other than being Arthur.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>You said in another interview \u2014 I\u2019m paraphrasing here \u2014 that you weren\u2019t necessarily looking to dispel the myths about Arthur, just to complicate them.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>            The people I spoke to [who were] close to him wanted to make sure he came across as a person, not a saint. I don\u2019t mean he did terrible things, or that we need to make more of the fact that he would go out cruising. What I mean is that he was a very complicated, strange person; he wasn\u2019t an apostle walking among us. He was all the things we want him to be, and more, and less. <\/p>\n<p>            Crucially, even having completed <i>World of Echo<\/i>, he was still trying to get people to remix his material like he had been a decade earlier. So it\u2019s not like [he had much] career progress, and it\u2019s also not like the early work was juvenilia or him finding his feet. The early work is extraordinary, and everything has got this quality that we all love, so I wanted to resist the idea that there\u2019s a kind of beginning, middle, and end to his life. Obviously there isn\u2019t, because his life was cut short tragically. What there <i>is<\/i> is this unbelievable body of work. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Tom Lee [(Russell\u2019s life partner)] and Steve [Hall (a close collaborator)] have tried to make sense of it, and we can all try to make sense of it. But there isn\u2019t much sense to make, other than just to think, \u201cThis is extraordinary that someone could write songs <i>and<\/i> be a virtuoso <i>and<\/i> invent a production style that hadn\u2019t been done before.\u201d In the book, Peter Gordon says the only person to compare [Arthur] to is Leonard Bernstein. The challenge was to get across this sense of him being everything all at once, and it being this random mess.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-261841,  #content_block-261841 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-261841 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261841\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>We can move on from the idea that he was the fifth member of Talking Heads and was at Keith Haring\u2019s birthday party at Paradise Garage. He definitely wasn\u2019t standing outside the Dakota the night Lennon got shot. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261842\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>In your intro, you talk about Arthur\u2019s refusal to work in one idiom or repeat himself, and that this lack of repetition was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening <i>concurrently<\/i>: It wasn\u2019t like he reinvented himself every few years; it was all happening at once. I was struck by how effectively you were able to weave those different, concurrent parts of his life together while working chronologically. Did you ever think of ordering the book differently?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            No. It was a challenge, but I kind of thought it had to be that way. [The challenge] was what to leave out as well as what to keep in, so there [would be] enough of a sense of time moving chronologically. It could just have been a kind of ad hoc, random scrapbook with the obvious [plot points]: He\u2019s born in Iowa, moves to San Francisco, moves to New York, meets Tom, dies.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You get most of that bio stuff out of the way in the intro and in Part I, where you move relatively quickly through Arthur\u2019s early years. Part II is when you start to focus on a really specific period when so much is going on in his life.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Yes. Once the \u201980s start, he\u2019s writing pop songs, writing an opera, releasing dancefloor music, playing new [(experimental)] music in two or three different arrangements of his friends\u2019 bands every week, either under his name or a friend\u2019s. It\u2019s an unbelievable work rate, and it all culminates in <i>World of Echo<\/i>, which is released in \u201986 in the U.S., \u201987 in the U.K. In the time between the American and the U.K. releases, he gets his diagnosis. And then post-diagnosis, the work rate actually increases. He was really, really productive, as Geoff Travis says in the book, possibly as a way to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>            I was trying to get a sense across of the industry and determination that\u2019s there throughout. His first girlfriend Muriel says how utterly committed he was and how hard he worked, and that\u2019s what [his frequent collaborator] Peter Zummo says about the last concert he ever played. That\u2019s the one aspect of his character that\u2019s not semi-occluded or indecipherable. <\/p>\n<p>            He was, like most people, lots of things. His sexualities, his religion\u2026 Can we say he was a practicing Buddhist all his life? Tom, who lived with him for 14 years, said it was a little intermittent. So much about him is mysterious, but the work rate and the absolute commitment and the music that produced, which many of us think is the work of a genius, are undeniable. I just didn\u2019t want to go looking for a way of hanging all that together like a Wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261843\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-10_be1smy\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Arthur Russell. Photo courtesy of The Arthur Russell Papers.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-261846,  #content_block-261846 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-261846 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #db2e51;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261846\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>Huge success or total failure is a far easier thing to understand, and total failure is far more romantic because there\u2019s a sense of destiny.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261844\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Speaking of Muriel, her comments in Part I are the first instances where we get the idea that Arthur was not a total saint and, by most accounts, a terrible boyfriend. Were there parts of his life you felt nervous about making public?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            No, but there were things I could\u2019ve put in and didn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t want it to be titillating; Arthur contracted HIV\/AIDS, Tom didn\u2019t, and there\u2019d be people who would happily give accounts of the wheres and whyfores of that, but I didn\u2019t think it was my role to go into that stuff. <\/p>\n<p>            I thought avoiding any sensationalizing of his life would make it more interesting. [What\u2019s interesting] is the everyday existence that feeds the music, that makes this concentration, this focus, this ambivalence toward success but desperate hunger for it at the same time. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            His life\u2019s pretty fascinating and extraordinary without wondering what bars he was cruising. We can move on from the idea that he was the fifth member of Talking Heads and was at Keith Haring\u2019s birthday party at Paradise Garage; he definitely wasn\u2019t standing outside the Dakota the night Lennon got shot. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261850\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Arthur-Russell-8_vvlghm\/arthur-russell-photo-courtesy-of-the-arthur-russell-papers.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A new Arthur Russell book complicates a mythic legacy\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Arthur Russell. Photo courtesy of The Arthur Russell Papers.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261847\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>One myth that you do seem to be actively trying to dispel is that Arthur died in total obscurity. How do you think that came to be the dominant narrative? Cynically, it seems like a good way to sell records, but I can also imagine it happening organically, with collectors and critics wanting to feel they\u2019d found something nobody had ever heard before them.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I think that\u2019s right. I also think we look for the beautiful loser archetype. It\u2019s often comforting in our own lives, when we\u2019re struggling, to think, \u201cEven <i>that<\/i> person didn\u2019t have success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            What I tried to get across was that Arthur lived a creative life for which he was frequently rewarded. He was rewarded financially, though not to the extent he wished he could have been. He was ripped off by the people who released his dance records. but he did get money out of it. Inasmuch as people could get by playing new [(experimental)] music, he got by. But he was also rewarded because he lived at a time when living a creative life was its own reward, when you didn\u2019t have to worry as much about housing costs and food costs and all the rest of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            It\u2019s far more attractive to think of him as a failure, someone who died in ignominy, but he didn\u2019t. He was a popular, highly regarded person who happened to be at least 20 years ahead of his time. It\u2019s more difficult for us to think that that\u2019s what life can be, that you can just get by and be so talented. Huge success or total failure is a far easier thing to understand, and total failure is far more romantic because there\u2019s a sense of destiny. And then, with him being rediscovered, there\u2019s a sense of destiny being fulfilled; he\u2019s finally, rightfully ascended to the point [where] he should have been in his lifetime. <\/p>\n<p>            There were times when he wasn\u2019t far off that, anyway: He nearly did an opera with Robert Wilson. He knew Seymour Stein, Geoff Travis, Karen Berg, who worked with H\u00fcsker Du and The B-52s. In the archive there\u2019s a memo from [legendary record producer] Jerry Wexler. People knew who he was, and it might have been something so mundane as meeting the right person, a business guy. If someone like that had managed Arthur, things could have been completely different.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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