Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
”He had to be the funkiest white boy I’ve ever met,” praises Lola Love, a former dancer and singer with James Brown, of the slight, acne-scarred, little-known musical genius from Oskaloosa, Iowa. (…) ”Wild Combination” celebrates a city that could (and still can) attract a gay weirdo from the Corn Belt to record avant-Buddhist chants with Allen Ginsberg, play cello on an early version of ”Psycho Killer” and produce some of the greatest disco ever.
– MELISSA ANDERSON, TIME OUT NEW YORK
This was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one in this Earth has ever done, or will do so ever again.
– PHILLIP GLASS
If you listen to Arthur’s music, and you’re not familiar with it, then you think, ”how can this work in all these different ways?” Not many people allow themselves the full extent of their complexity.
– DAVID TOOP
Duration: 71 min
Dialogue: English
