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Release Date: 2006-04-03

Labels: Audika, Rough Trade

On release sticker: "2 CD all instrumental compilation including the long out of print "Instrumentals Vol. 2" and "Tower of Meaning" with over 45 minutes of previously unreleased material."

Tracks 1-1 to 1-10:
Previously unreleased. Recorded April 27th, 1975 at the Kitchen.

Tracks 1-11 to 1-15
Previously released as Arthur Russell - Instrumentals, 1974 - Vol. 2 via Another Side of Les Disques Du Crépuscule (SIDE 8401) in 1984. The rare original pressing's B-side was mastered at the wrong speed, and wrong recording dates/artist credits were given on labels and cover. These are corrected on this issue. Track 1-11 recorded June 23rd, 1977 at Franklin St. Art Center, tracks 1-12 to 1-15 recorded May 10th, 1978 at the Kitchen. Special thanks to Carlota Schoolman.

Track 1-16
Composed 1973. Previously unreleased. Recorded May 7th, 1975 at Experimental Intermedia Foundation.

Track 2-1 to 2-7
Originally released in 1983 in an edition of 320 copies on Chatham Sq (CLS 145). Recorded in February 1981.

Track 2-8
Previously unreleased. Recorded sometime in the early 80s.

All Songs Published by Echo and Feedback Newsletter Music administered by Another Audika (ASCAP) for North America and Rykomusic for the rest of the world.

Digital Transfer by [...] at The Seaside Lounge Lounge, Brooklyn, New York May-June 2005
Mastered by [...] at Sterling Sound, New York August/September 2005

Liner notes:
Arthur Russell, New York 1984
Ernie Brooks, Long Island City, NY November 2005
Steve Knutson, Audika Records, New York November 2005

℗ 2006 Audika Records LLC under exclusive license from the estate of Arthur Russell. Licensed to Rough Trade Records Ltd. in Europe.
© 2006 Rough Trade Records Ltd. Made in the E.U.

2xCD in slim double jewel case housed in a O-case, with 16 pp. booklet.

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