Travels Over Feeling - the life & music of Arthur Russell with Richard King

Walthamstow Rock 'n' Roll Book Club and Sunday Ekstasis present an afternoon dedicated to the life and music of Arthur Russell

The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to his genre-expanding disco and art pop productions, to his posthumously released folk songs.
Travels Over Feeling is the result of extensive research by author Richard King, curating the ephemera and documentation found in both Arthur's and other private archives, and consists of hand-written scores, lyrics, photos, letters and drawings. Throughout, King has conducted wide-ranging original interviews with Arthur's collaborators, contemporaries, family and friends. The resulting book reveals a true picture of one of the most distinctive artists of the last fifty years.

Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade, The Times and Uncut Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (the Sunday Times Music Book of the Year) and The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year), all published by Faber & Faber.

Richard will talk about Arthur's life and music with journalist Kate Hutchinson; the discussion will be illustrated with images from the archive, including some previously unseen pictures, ephemera and drawings not included in Travels Over Feeling.

The Sunday Extasis DJs will present a soundtrack devoted to Arthur Russell's works, influences and more.

Audience Q&A and book signing

Host or Publisher Walthamstow Rock 'n' Roll Book Club