First Thought Best Thought

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Album Info

Release Date: 2021-06-28

Label: Audika

Two CDs in 3-panel Digipak sleeve w/ 16-page insert booklet. Issued factory sealed with hype sticker.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-10:
"Instrumentals" 1974 - Volume 1 (previously unreleased)
Recorded April 27th, 1975 at the Kitchen.

Tracks 1-11 to 1-15:
"Instrumentals" 1974 - Volume 2
Track 1-11 recorded June 26, 1977 at Franklyn St. Art Center.
Tracks 1-12 to 1-15 recorded May 10th, 1978 at the Kitchen.
Originally released in 1984 by Another Side as Instrumentals, 1974 - Vol. 2 (SIDE 8401).

Track 1-16:
Reach One (with two Fender Rhodes) 1973 (previously unreleased)
Recorded May 7th, 1975 at Experimental Intermedia Foundation.

Tracks 2-1 to 2-7:
Tower of Meaning
Recorded February 1981.
Originally released in 1983 by Chatham Square Productions as Tower of Meaning (CLS 145).

Track 2-8:
Sketch For "Face of Helen" (previously unreleased)
Recorded 1981.

All songs composed by Charles Arthur Russell Jr.
Published by Echo & Feedback Newsletter Music, administered by Another Audika (ASCAP).

Digital transfers by Josh Clark at The Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, NY, May-June 2005.
Remastered 2015 by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering in Boston, MA. Assistant mastering engineer Maria Rice.