World of Echo

Arthur Russell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2005)
• Original Release Date: September 1, 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Audika Records
• ASIN: B0006V4D4W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,988 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #86 in Music > Dance & DJ > Techno > Minimal Techno

Editorial Reviews

David Stubbs, Melody Maker, April 1987

"World Of Echo" is an orbit of resonance, a giant, subterranean repository of Dub.

"Deeply mysterious, original, and beautiful"

"The perfect place to spend eternity"

Product Description

"This was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one on this Earth has ever done before, or will do so again." - PHILLIP GLASS

David Stubbs, Melody Maker, April 1987 "World Of Echo" is an orbit of resonance, a giant, subterranean repository of Dub.

Product Description Out of print for over fifteen years, Arthur Russell's most extraordinary work, "World Of Echo" is issued for the first time on CD by Audika Records. Newly remastered from Arthur's pristine original 1/4" sequenced masters, "World Of Echo" sounds like nothing you have heard or will ever hear. 18 tracks are featured including drumless versions of his Disco classics "Let's Go Swimming", "Tree House" and "Wax The Van" along with four previously unreleased tracks from "Sketches From World Of Echo".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Discovery! A Wild Combination: Arthur Russell, July 15, 2011

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Pam Dalsin (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World of Echo (Audio CD)

I don't profess to be a Musicologist, just someone who appreciates important, artistic contributions. I am a visual artist. I have always loved music, but accepted the fact that I did not have the innate skills to become a great musician - although, I developed an early appreciation of music. In terms of Arthur Russell, I am not talking about music that overtakes us and makes us 'shake our booty'! I appreciate that from time to time - no doubt - as I LOVE to dance. Arthur avoided trite commercialization. I believe that Arthur Russells's art was created with committment, humility and a profound sense of his Reality. As time goes on, his music grows into something greater than even he (possibly) originally conceived. His Echo music has powers to heal - not only the mind, but the spirit. I don't know where he found his Muse, but, he certainly followed it very diligently and with a great deal of conviction and heart. Wow, quite a journey this guy took! Gotta admire that. I just discovered his music through the video, "Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell". Yes, as is with most of us, he had feet of clay and made some mistakes, but I am greatful to have learned about him and his music. My world will never be the same...

8 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing, March 20, 2005

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Benjamin D. Collins (Fayetteville, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World of Echo (Audio CD)

It sounds kind of like nick drake if he had played cello instead of guitar. That's about the best thing I can say and if that means anything to you then buy this record.

3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Important but indulgent, September 6, 2008

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IRate - See all my reviews

This review is from: World of Echo (Audio CD)

3 1/2

This little known but far reaching release seems to have inspired quite a few since. An avant-garde Drake does seem an appropriate comparison, though Russell's experimental folk drifts as much into the future as it connects into the past. There are many of the artist's signature echo-drenched cello compositions which do tend to become compositionally repetitious and dwindle on a bit at times, but when the minimalist reverb works, WOE truly lives up to it's title. As well as predicting some of the textural work Radiohead would gravitate towards when they wanted to explore electronica, Russell's evocative vocals at times astoundingly parallels one of Rock's most formidable vocalists, My Morning Jacket's Jim James. Few songs sustain a focused purity found in tracks like "Being It", and on the contrast reek of awful studio pretentiousness ala "The Name Of The Next Song", but the album nonetheless convincingly renders a portrait for this important sound-scaper.