Arthur Russell / Calling Out Of Context
Artist Arthur Russell
Album Title: Calling Out Of Context
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock
Format CD
Released 02/16/2004
Label Audika Records
Catalog No AU-1001-2
Bar Code No 8 80301 10012 4
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. The Deer In The Forest Part 1 (1:35)
2. The Platform On The Ocean (8:04)
3. You And Me Both (3:45)
4. Calling Out Of Context (5:45)
5. Arm Around You (6:32)
6. That's Us/Wild Combination (6:58)
7. Make 1, 2 (2:49)
8. Hop On Down (6:02)
9. Get Around To It (4:58)
10. I Like You! (5:01)
11. You Can Make Me Feel Bad (1:28)
12. Calling All Kids (Walter Gibbons Remix) (7:15)
Date Acquired 10/07/2017
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 14.98

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Notes

All songs published by Echo and Feedback Newsletter Music administered by Another Audika (ASCAP) for the world.
Tracks 1, 2, 4 produced and mixed [...] 1984/5
Tracks 3, 5-12 produced and mixed [...] 1986-90
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York
Liner notes: Audika Records, New York, December 2003
This album is for Tom Lee
This compilation ? & © 2004 Audika Records LLC, [...] under exclusive license from the estate of Arthur Russell. [...] Made in the USA.
Incidental info:

"Calling Out Of Context" contains previously unreleased tracks, including several songs from Russell's scrapped "Corn" album (1985) and tracks from an abandoned album recorded between 1986-1990 for Rough Trade. "Make 1, 2" and "Hop On Down" (originally titled "Hop On Down To Petland") were planned to be released as singles.

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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value:    DR10
Samplerate:             44100 Hz
Channels:                 2
Bits per sample:      16
Bitrate:                     864 kbps
Codec:                     FLAC
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman:

Like Another Thought, released ten years prior, Calling out of Context stitches together an hour's worth of songs left behind by the late, increasingly known -- and therefore unceasingly beloved -- Arthur Russell. According to liner notes from Audika's Steve Knutson, the content here pulls from a finished 1985 album that never made it past the test-pressing phase, along with an unfinished LP that was recorded and toyed with throughout the latter half of the '80s and the dawn of the '90s. Despite the multiple sources, the consistency of the tracks -- which all carry a hazy, memories-of-events-that-never-happened feel -- and the sympathetic sequencing make the disc seem more like a proper album than a vault-clearing compilation. If you're familiar with the sound that Russell and his accomplices made on singles like "Let's Go Swimming" and Indian Ocean's "School Bell/Treehouse," you'll be familiar with the sound here. On these recordings, Russell (who plays cello, guitar, keyboards, and percussion) is joined primarily by Mustafa Ahmed and Peter Zummo, and the three of them produce an abstract cross between pop and R&B, constructed with drum machines and more organic instrumentation on top. None of these songs woo a crowd of dancers as so many of Russell's short-lived aliases did before; instead, they're more rooted in song-based pop. This goes for the structure of the tracks, and it also goes for the subject matter of the lyrics. One of the greatest joys of listening to these songs is the regular presence of Russell's gentle, somewhat timid voice, which delivers one heartwarming line after another. If you're thinking this might possibly resemble a shoestring-budget, avant-garde version of Jam & Lewis, you're not too far off. With the many hats Russell wore, Calling out of Context should hammer home the fact that he was also a dynamite writer of heart-on-sleeve love songs -- not just a formidable cellist and innovative disco producer.
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