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Over the past decade, the visionary musician Arthur Russell<\/strong> has entered something close to the mainstream.<\/p>\n

Sampled and referenced by contemporary musicians, his papers now open to visitors at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in New York, and his name synonymous with a certain strain of tenderness, Russell<\/strong> is as widely known as he\u2019s ever been. Thanks to Russell<\/strong>\u2019s partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records<\/strong>, who have forged several records from Russell<\/strong>\u2019s vast archive of unfinished and unreleased work, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell<\/strong>. There\u2019s the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell<\/strong> are individually true, none alone define him.<\/p>\n

Now, after ten years of work inside the Russell library, Lee and Knutson bring us “Iowa Dream<\/strong>“<\/span>, yet another bright star in Russell<\/strong>\u2019s dazzling constellation. Blazing with trademark feeling, these nineteen songs are a staggering collection of Russell<\/strong>\u2019s utterly distinct songwriting. And although Russell<\/strong> could be inscrutably single-minded, he was never totally solitary. Collaborating here is a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians, including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Steven Hall, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Saltzman, and David Van Tieghem. Musician Peter Broderick makes a contemporary addition to this list: more than forty years after Russell<\/strong> recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika<\/strong> to complete them, and performed audio restoration and additional mixing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several tracks on “Iowa Dream<\/strong>” Russell originally recorded as demos, in two early examples of his repeated brushes with potential popular success\u2014first in 1974, with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records, and then in 1975, with the legendary John Hammond of Columbia Records. For different reasons, neither session amounted to a record deal. Russell kept working nearly up until his death in 1992 from complications of HIV-AIDS.<\/p>\n

At once kaleidoscopic and intimate, “Iowa Dream<\/strong>” bears some of Russell<\/strong>\u2019s most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s. For Russell<\/strong>, Iowa was never very far away. \u201cI see, I see it all,\u201d sings Russell<\/strong> on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown. Russell\u2019s childhood home and family echo, too, through \u201cJust Regular People,\u201d \u201cI Wish I Had a Brother,\u201d \u201cWonder Boy,\u201d \u201cThe Dogs Outside are Barking,\u201d \u201cSharper Eyes,\u201d and \u201cI Felt.\u201d Meanwhile, songs like \u201cI Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,\u201d \u201cI Still Love You,\u201d \u201cList of Boys,\u201d and \u201cBarefoot in New York\u201d fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell<\/strong>\u2019s devotion to New York\u2019s avant-garde and disco scenes. Finally, the long-awaited \u201cYou Did it Yourself,\u201d until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf\u2019s documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell\u2019s extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers. On “Iowa Dream<\/strong>“, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world\u2014and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist.<\/p>\n

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“Iowa Dream<\/strong>” bears some of Russell<\/strong>\u2019s most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s. For Russell<\/strong>, Iowa was never very far away. \u201cI see, I see it all,\u201d sings Russell<\/strong> on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown. Russell\u2019s childhood home and family echo, too, through \u201cJust Regular People,\u201d \u201cI Wish I Had a Brother,\u201d \u201cWonder Boy,\u201d \u201cThe Dogs Outside are Barking,\u201d \u201cSharper Eyes,\u201d and \u201cI Felt.\u201d Meanwhile, songs like \u201cI Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,\u201d \u201cI Still Love You,\u201d \u201cList of Boys,\u201d and \u201cBarefoot in New York\u201d fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell<\/strong>\u2019s devotion to New York\u2019s avant-garde and disco scenes. Finally, the long-awaited \u201cYou Did it Yourself,\u201d until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf\u2019s documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell\u2019s extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers. On “Iowa Dream<\/strong>“, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world\u2014and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

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