<p><b>''An icon of New York¿s downtown music scene is brought vividly to life in this tapestry of archive and oral history'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from his pioneering compositions as part of the New York avant-garde alongside artists including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, to his genre-expanding disco and art pop productions, to his posthumously released folk songs. <br><br><i>Travels Over Feeling</i> is the result of extensive research by author Richard King, curating the ephemera and documentation found in both Arthur¿s and other private archives, and consists of hand-written scores, lyrics, photos, letters and drawings. Throughout, King has conducted wide-ranging original interviews with Arthur¿s collaborators, contemporaries, family and friends. The resulting book reveals a true picture of one of the most distinctive artists of the last fifty years.</p>