In partnership with Music and Riots and Audika Records, Music on Music is pleased to present a listening session celebrating the 40th anniversary of Arthur Russell’s “World of Echo”, which will take place at RCA/Espaço Agra on June 19 at 9 p.m. Presented alongside unedited performance footage shot by multimedia artist and composer Phil Niblock and included in “Terrace of Unintelligibility” and “Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes,”, this is the perfect opportunity to revisit Russell’s radical, beatless dance music of imposing intimacy, making for one of the most beautifully amorphous and forward-thinking records of the late 20th century, central to cementing Russell’s creations as some of the most daring and influential of the era. Throughout his tragically short lifetime, Russell lived numerous musical lives in relative anonymity, only to reenter the cultural consciousness by way of Steve Knutson, Russell’s partner Tom Lee and Audika Records’ archival releases of the many unreleased, home-recorded tapes he left behind. Whether as a cellist, composer, avant- garde pioneer, disco innovator or folk-country ballad-maker, he embodied experimental freedom and perfectionism into every corner of his artistry, with World of Echo standing as his most oblique and deeply personal statement. Expanding on the freedom he discovered through Phil Niblock’s left-of-center lens, Russell stripped his tools to voice and cello, distorting his instruments of choice to near-shoegaze levels of texture. Sounds and harmonies drift in and out of focus as Russell harvests a carefully deliberate roughness that slowly reveals the songs’ endless delicacies, reinforcing the many inversions and innovations within his songwriting as a kind of eternal echo floating through time and space.