Arthur Russell – This is How We Walk on the Moon
At 4 in the morning, I’m finishing an unnecessary old-fashioned with my friend at a bar with 2 other people: the bartender and the DJ. So we ask the bartender what the current song is, and he points us to the DJ: an overzealous fellow with a gut, a prospector’s mustache, and suspenders. “Arthur Russell, King of New York”. Apparently Russell was a bigwig in the 70′s nyc underground (which i imagine looked a lot like David Bowie’s Labyrinth) and kind of served as a godfather to disco getting weird and becoming dance music for the next couple decades. He has a couple of monikers, make sure to check out Loose Joints for some bangers.
