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Love Is Overtaking Me

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Release Date
24 November 2014

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'Love Is Overtaking Me', originally released in 2008 comprises 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk and country songs from Arthur's vast catalogue. While much critical and popular affection for Russell's music has come about well after his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these recordings can be heard on 'Love Is Overtaking Me'. Alongside songs recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by Russell with Ernie Brooks whose shifting line up included, by turns, Jerry Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as Larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are represented on 'Love Is Overtaking Me', including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty and Bright & Early.

Album: Love Is Overtaking Me
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Close My Eyes More Info...
2)    Goodbye Old Paint More Info...
3)    Maybe She More Info...
4)    Oh Fernanda Why More Info...
5)    Time Away More Info...
6)    Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart More Info...
7)    I Couldn't Say It to Your Face More Info...
8)    This Time Dad You're Wrong More Info...
9)    What It's Like More Info...
10)    Eli More Info...
11)    Hey! How Does Everybody Know More Info...
12)    I Forget and I Can't Tell (Ballad of the Lights Pt. 1) More Info...
13)    Habit of You More Info...
14)    Janine More Info...
15)    Big Moon More Info...
16)    Your Motion Says More Info...
17)    The Letter More Info...
18)    Don't Forget About Me More Info...
19)    Love Is Overtaking Me More Info...
20)    Planted a Thought More Info...
21)    Love Comes Back More Info...
 
Album: Love Is Overtaking Me
# Song Title   Time
  Disc 1
1)    Close My Eyes More Info...
2)    Goodbye Old Paint More Info...
3)    Maybe She More Info...
4)    Oh Fernanda Why More Info...
5)    Time Away More Info...
6)    Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart More Info...
7)    I Couldn't Say It to Your Face More Info...
8)    This Time Dad You're Wrong More Info...
9)    What It's Like More Info...
10)    Eli More Info...
11)    Hey! How Does Everybody Know More Info...
12)    I Forget and I Can't Tell (Ballad of the Lights Pt. 1) More Info...
13)    Habit of You More Info...
14)    Janine More Info...
15)    Big Moon More Info...
16)    Your Motion Says More Info...
17)    The Letter More Info...
18)    Don't Forget About Me More Info...
19)    Love Is Overtaking Me More Info...
20)    Planted a Thought More Info...
21)    Love Comes Back More Info...
 
Product Description

'Love Is Overtaking Me', originally released in 2008 comprises 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, folk and country songs from Arthur's vast catalogue. While much critical and popular affection for Russell's music has come about well after his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, many fellow artists believed in his genius and were drawn to collaborate with him during his lifetime. The legendary producer John Hammond (Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen) recorded Russell on several occasions; a number of these recordings can be heard on 'Love Is Overtaking Me'. Alongside songs recorded with various incarnations of The Flying Hearts, a group formed by Russell with Ernie Brooks whose shifting line up included, by turns, Jerry Harrison, Rhys Chatham, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo as well as Larry Saltzman and David Van Tieghem. Several other Russell projects are represented on 'Love Is Overtaking Me', including The Sailboats, Turbo Sporty and Bright & Early.

Product Details
EAN
0880301101015
Country
USA
Studio/Live
Studio
Label
Audika
Dimensions
31.3 x 0.5 x 31.2 centimeters (0.40 kg)
Performer Notes
  • A gifted cellist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Arthur Russell was a ubiquitous if often underappreciated player on New York's avant-garde and dance music scenes throughout the '70s and '80s. Russell was an inveterate perfectionist who was notoriously reluctant to release his recorded work, and new facets of his musical legacy continue to come to light as more of his previously unreleased material surfaces.
  • Audika Records were responsible for 2006's incredible FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT collection, which featured many of Russell's more ambitious classical compositions, and they've followed it up with LOVE IS OVERTAKING ME, a group of previously unreleased recordings that showcase an entirely different side of Russell's musical personality. The record features a series of simple but sharply written pop tunes that veer from heartfelt, country-inflected laments to ambitious proto-New Wave. Though stylistically diverse, all of these recordings exhibit the unerring melodic brilliance, beguiling sincerity, and fierce inventiveness that have made Russell an underground icon.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.132) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Russell's lighter-than-air voice, murmuring about big-city love, recalls Nick Drake, and his filigreed melodies are stingingly gorgeous."

Spin (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Love letters, brief smiles, a touch on the arm, friends, and pets abound; throughout, Russell poignantly captures and echoes life's ephemeral delights."

The Wire (p.68) - "[With] the gently, gorgeous, concluding 'Love Comes Back,' whose deceptively labyrinthe, exquisite choices of chord change encapsulate all that we know and love about the man."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t finds Russell's intoxicating smoke-and-molasses voice helming songs that channel Jackson Browne, Jonathan Richman and Dylan."

Record Collector (magazine) (pp.92-93) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Like his career in microcosm, there are a variety of styles here -- the bucolic strum of 'Close My Eyes' and 'Goodbye Paint,' the soulful horn-driven 'Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart' and the WORLD OF ECHO-like 'Eli,' a paean for an unloved pet..."
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