Kiss Me Again
First ever official reissue of Arthur Russell's genius 'Kiss Me Again' performed as Dinosaur in a crazy lineup inc David Byrne, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo, plus production by Nicky Siano - arguably the first ever production by a DJ making a record from scratch. It sold 300k copies and is, to put it mildly, an all timer - newly remastered from the original tapes!
Hard to overstate the enduring brilliance and influence of ‘Kiss Me Again’, a wildcard definition of NYC disco that brought together some of the era’s greatest at the service of a groove that just keeps on giving. As the story goes, in 1976 Arthur Russell visited The Gallery, a legendary and pioneering club with an amazing soundsystem, where he heard its DJ, Nicky Siano, playing ‘Turn the Beat Around’ and asked if they could make a record together. After recording sessions throughout 1977, the results would become the first record custom made from scratch by a DJ, Siano, and mark the foundations of Russell’s stellar oeuvre with its innovative approach to multi-tracking and maximising a groove. It has since become a real cornerstone of NYC club music and far beyond, arguably paving the way for Madonna on Sire Records, who issued it as their first disco single.
Arthur plays cello and conducts the players to their best, placing Miriam Valle’s belting vocal on a depth charge of Wilbur Bascomb’s rolling bassline and Allan Schwartzberg’s sizzling drums, which Russell and Siano would layer up and tease out for 13 minutes of mesmerising dancefloor ecstasy. It brings a subtle country blues twang akin to Henry Flynt’s hillbilly hoe downs to the horny charge of queer club music and Afro-Latinate dance rhythms with a perpetual thrust that didn’t fully sound like anything else in the original, which is trimmed and spiced up in the B-side version with a teasing DJ’s nous, making killer use of the cello, horns and rhythm guitar that entwine like bodies in motion. It has notably been covered by Polmo Polpo in a version twice as long that registers among our all timers, but the OG remains superior in its hair-kissing, deferred ecstasy and inexorable traction.
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Back in stock. Remastered from the original tapes. With liner notes by David Byrne, Nicky Siano, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo.
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First ever official reissue of Arthur Russell's genius 'Kiss Me Again' performed as Dinosaur in a crazy lineup inc David Byrne, Peter Gordon and Peter Zummo, plus production by Nicky Siano - arguably the first ever production by a DJ making a record from scratch. It sold 300k copies and is, to put it mildly, an all timer - newly remastered from the original tapes!
Hard to overstate the enduring brilliance and influence of ‘Kiss Me Again’, a wildcard definition of NYC disco that brought together some of the era’s greatest at the service of a groove that just keeps on giving. As the story goes, in 1976 Arthur Russell visited The Gallery, a legendary and pioneering club with an amazing soundsystem, where he heard its DJ, Nicky Siano, playing ‘Turn the Beat Around’ and asked if they could make a record together. After recording sessions throughout 1977, the results would become the first record custom made from scratch by a DJ, Siano, and mark the foundations of Russell’s stellar oeuvre with its innovative approach to multi-tracking and maximising a groove. It has since become a real cornerstone of NYC club music and far beyond, arguably paving the way for Madonna on Sire Records, who issued it as their first disco single.
Arthur plays cello and conducts the players to their best, placing Miriam Valle’s belting vocal on a depth charge of Wilbur Bascomb’s rolling bassline and Allan Schwartzberg’s sizzling drums, which Russell and Siano would layer up and tease out for 13 minutes of mesmerising dancefloor ecstasy. It brings a subtle country blues twang akin to Henry Flynt’s hillbilly hoe downs to the horny charge of queer club music and Afro-Latinate dance rhythms with a perpetual thrust that didn’t fully sound like anything else in the original, which is trimmed and spiced up in the B-side version with a teasing DJ’s nous, making killer use of the cello, horns and rhythm guitar that entwine like bodies in motion. It has notably been covered by Polmo Polpo in a version twice as long that registers among our all timers, but the OG remains superior in its hair-kissing, deferred ecstasy and inexorable traction.