Arthur Russell – World Of Echo

Colleen: I was kind of reborn as a musician with the discovery of Russell’s music via the amazing Tim Lawrence biography which I read in early 2010, at a moment when I was feeling completely stuck in my music-making. His music showed me the way forward, making me realize I could sing without adopting traditional pop forms, that I did not have to choose between sung and instrumental music, and reconciled me with the use of heavy production effects, which I had somehow started to reject a couple of years earlier while going through a more minimal acoustic phase.