Sunday, August 01, 2010
Non Projects is a record label dedicated to the support and discovery of Los Angeles' most innovative artists and composers. Mislaid within an ever-changing and confused recording landscape, Non Projects offers imaginative works of art and sound.
With the aim to showcase each artist's devotion to their love of music and the joy of uncovering hidden and undiscovered sounds and resonances, each release is available with supplemental materials providing a commonly forgotten tangible experience no longer associated with acquiring music.
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Echo Beach
Melody Maker // April 11, 1987
By: Frank Owen
You may know Arthur Russell for his World Of Echo album. Then again, you may remember Dinosaur L or The Necessaries. Frank Owen takes us on a trip of cross fertilization and explains the appeal of the vernacular.
Lesson One: Before approaching the avant-garde, watch where you're putting your feet.
Within minutes of meeting Arthur Russell, disco stylist, cellist and avant-garde composer, I've closeted myself in the toilet of his East Village pad, trying to surreptitiously remove the remains of the doggy doo, a present from the streets of Alphabet City.
Look at me desperately trying to avoid messing up Arthur's carpet. Look at Arthur, paranoid and suspicious, convinced I've traveled 3,000 miles to stitch him up, contorting himself in the next room at the imminent horror of being interviewed by someone he thinks massively misinterpreted the contents of our last chat.
Arthur is plainly ill at ease, all the more so when I jokingly comment on the two cents CBS royalty cheque (part payment for a track called "That Hat" written for Peter Gordon of Love Of Life Orchestra fame, on his last album "Innocent"). Ooops!
What do I think of his new album, the magnificent "World Of Echo"? Do I think his voice is any good? How do I intend to transcribe the tape of our interview? But most of all, what has Will Socolov, co-founder of Sleeping Bag Records along with Arthur, been saying about him?
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