KURATED NO. 230
LOOKING BACK
Where Alice Russell Comes From:
A 31-song Playlist
PLAYLISTS
31-song Spotify playlist culled from her first five albums
ONE VIDEO SONG
I Loved You (live version from her To Dust album on Youtube)
More Alice Russell
• Kurated No. 228
Live Performance
• 2013 mini-concert at Seattle’s KEXP Radio studios (20:45 mins)
Alice Russell in 2013 in a live session for her acclaimed album To Dust.
LOOKING BACK
The British soul, funk and jazz diva’s back catalogue charts her evolving talent
Before she took a 10-year hiatus from performing, British singer-songwriter Alice Russell recorded five well received solo albums as well as a duet collection with UK-born musician and producer Quantic. Now that she’s returned to recording and touring with the excellent new album I Am, (see Kurated No. 228) it’s a good time to look back at where this enormously talented soul, funk and jazz artist comes from.
Despite her popularity at home she hasn’t won the breakthrough that vaulted Amy Winehouse and Adele to fame. It’s puzzling because she’s playing in the same league. Numerous critics noted that British music was missing a star with death of Amy Winehouse in 2011 and pointed to Russell as a likely candidate. Evenso, on this side of the water she’s just this side of obscure.
Last month’s Kurated post on her new album was popular with readers. That’s prompted me to put together a 31-song playlist drawing from her five solo albums between 2004 and 2013 as well as the Colombian-influenced duet with Quantic, Look Around the Corner.
Discography
- Albums by Russell
- Under the Munka Moon (2004, Tru Thoughts)
- My Favourite Letters (2005, Tru Thoughts)[6]
- Under the Munka Moon II (2006, Tru Thoughts)[7]
- Pot of Gold (2008, Little Poppet/Differ-ant/Six Degrees)[8]
- Pot of Gold Remixes (2009, Little Poppet/Differ-ant/Six Degrees)[9]
- To Dust (2013, Tru Thoughts/Differ-ant)[14]
- I Am (2024, Tru Thoughts)
- Albums with others
- Look Around the Corner by Quantic & Alice Russell with The Combo Bárbaro (2012, Tru Thoughts)[15][16]
- Albums with contributions by RussellNinja Tuna (2008) by Mr Scruff – Russell collaborated on “Music Takes Me Up”
- Here Lies Love (2010) by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim – Russell contributes vocals on “Men Will Do Anything”[1
Source: Wikipedia
16 November 2024
PLAYLIST
On Spotify
Of her five solo discs 2013’s To Dust was her biggest commercial success and arguably the best album she recorded during that run. Read what some of the critics had to say: Rolling Stone, BBC, AllMusic.com.
