{"product_id":"arthur-russell-calling-out-of-context","title":"Arthur Russell ‎- Calling Out Of Context","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike Another Thought, released ten years prior, \u003cem\u003eCalling out of Context\u003c\/em\u003e stitches together an hour's worth of songs left behind by the late, increasingly known - and therefore unceasingly beloved - Arthur Russell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf 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\u0026amp;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 \u0026amp; Lewis, you're not too far off. 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