Calling Out of Context

Personnel: Arthur Russell (vocals, guitar, cello, keyboards, drum programming); Jennifer Warnes (vocals); Peter Zummo (trombone, synthesizer, programming); Musta Ahmed (drums, congas, percussion, programming); Steven Hall (electronic percussion).Recorded between 1984 & 1990.Like Another Thought, released ten years prior, Calling out of Context stitches together an hour's worth of songs left behind by the late, increasingly known -- and therefore unceasingly beloved -- Arthur Russell. According to liner notes from Audika's Steve Knutson, the content here pulls from a finished 1985 album that never made it past the test-pressing phase, along with an unfinished LP that was recorded and toyed with throughout the latter half of the '80s and the dawn of the '90s. Despite the multiple sources, the consistency of the tracks -- which all carry a hazy, memories-of-events-that-never-happened feel -- and the sympathetic sequencing make the disc seem more like a proper album than a vault-cleari