Dr. "Ajari" Warwick, Arthur Russell, and members of the Kailas Shugendo commune fire-walking to mantric chant in San Francisco, 1969
Padmasambhava Mantra, Allen Ginsberg with Arthur Russell and Kailas Shugendo Mantric Sun Band, early 1970
A sketch for "Home Away From Home" from Russell's personal notebooks
Had to share this remix of Arthur's "Home Away From Home" by Andy Stott. It's from a live set Stott performed at The Boiler Room in London…
In his article for the New York Times Ben Ratliff was drawn to some particularly obscure writings in Russell's notebooks. Texts like the one to the left here, repeating the term "pIdea," are scattered throughout numerous notebooks from the 1980s…
In May 0f 2016 it was announced that the archives of Arthur Russell were being relocated to the New York Public Library, where they will be organized and made available to the public.