Arthur Russell – Picture Of Bunny Rabbit

The idea of someone unpacking the cello at a funeral and playing a passage from »World Of Echo« is so wonderfully pretentious that I get misty-eyed just thinking about it. With »The Picture Of Bunny Rabbit«, a relic of these sessions has actually been released posthumously, a Grail-like discovery by Arthur Russell’s estate, just too good to be true. Absurd that the world had to wait almost forty years, and even more absurd how brilliantly Tom Lee sequenced and edited the recordings. This makes »The Picture Of Bunny Rabbit« the long lost twin brother of one of the most important albums of the 1980s.