"The Platform on The Ocean"

"The Platform on The Ocean" - Arthur Russell

The Word-of-Mouth Resurgence of Arthur Russell | The New Yorker

Whenever I think about a cello player I think of someone pristine and stately like Yo Yo ma or Jacqueline Du Pre. Wild haired & squinty eyed, Arthur Russell pleasantly surprised me. He lived fast & died young in NYC during the AIDS pandemic of the '80s. Hanging with Beat Poets and photographers he was in the IT group. In fact Allen Ginsberg once read poetry while Arthur accompanied him on his cello. Arthur was a sweet ,troubled and tempestuous musical

genius. You can gather that he live the full life for only for only being around 40 years when he succumbed to AIDS which is very strange because this AIDS virus feels like the coronavirus we don't know what's going on so it might be timely to bring that back up the platform of the ocean just stuck struck me as many layered panoply of a song much like the other music record shop there was a little bit of everything in this song there was some electronica there is weird vocals there was a little bit of there was horn section and also at one point it sounded like a whale I didn't really just turn this turn the cello but I know Arthur Russell was a master at putting music together he also was a master and not finishing what he started which I relate to so there are a lot of untapped tracks that are half full or half done when it be a pleasure if somebody could get a handle of them on them get ahold of them and finish them Arthur Russell was complicated but he left us and I can come to the party far too late but now that I'm here I'm enchanted by his music and it will be on my playlist forever. Merci.

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