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Love Is Overtaking Me (CD)

By: Arthur Russell (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Love Is Overtaking Me (CD) Album By Arthur Russell (Artist)
1   Close My Eyes
2   Goodbye Old Paint
3   Maybe She
4   Oh Fernanda Why
5   Taking Time Away To Dream
6   Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart
7   I Couldn't Say It To Your Face
8   This Time Dad You're Wrong
9   What It's Like
10   Eli
11   Hey! How Does Everybody Know
12   I Forget And I Can't Tell (Ballad Of The Lights Pt.1)
13   Habit Of You
14   Janine
15   Big Moon
16   Your Motion Says
17   Letter, The
18   Don't Forget About Me
19   Love Is Overtaking Me
20   Planted A Thought
21   Love Comes Back
 

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Review

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..."

Title Note

Personnel: Arthur Russell (vocals, guitar, cello, keyboards, drum programming); Steven Hall (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Rob Shepperson (vocals, drums); Joyce Bowden (vocals); Jonathan Paley (guitar, drums, tambourine); Darrius Thabit, Randy Gunn, Kent Goshorn, John Scharman, Jason Klagstad, Jon Sholle, Larry Saltzman (guitar); Cecil Milligan (tamboura); Johnie Bartel, David LaFlamme, David Stone, Sid Page (violin); Michael Adams (flute); Jon Gibson, Huzur Nawaz (clarinet); Peter Gordon (tenor saxophone); Peter Zummo, Garrett List (trombone); Jerry Harrison (organ); Ernie Brooks, Bob Maize, STEVE WARREN (bass instrument); Rick Jaeger, Jesse Chamberlain, Andy Paley, David Van Tieghem (drums); Mustafa Ahmed (conga drum, percussion); John Bergamo (tabla).

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.

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