Seldom-heard b-side to the white-label-only 12” of Russell’s single greatest piece of music, “In the Light of the Miracle”. While the a-side was reissued on Soul Jazz’s comp of Russell material, this mysterious house-infused flipside remains tragically unreleased. Features the whole Singing Tractors crew (Elodie Lauten, Mustafa Ahmed, and Peter Zummo) as well as Allen Ginsberg (!) and a rare appearance by Julius Eastman.
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BONUS: Yet another unreleased version of "In the Light of the Miracle", a fragile solo voice/cello/delay live recording complete with an entirely different opening stanza:
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(Extracted from this radio podcast.)
This song has the words "miracle" and "light" in it! It belongs here.
ReplyDeletethank you. and thank god... when arthur goes all allen ginsberg... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tLNoAFaoA
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ReplyDeletei love that solo version. thanks for posting. m
ReplyDeletethis song never gets tired, even at 14+ minutes. morphs and slowly builds the whole time. quite a treat! thanks.
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