A shy and awkward Iowan prairie boy sits down in front of the camera somewhere in late 1970s New York, and out comes one of the most enigmatic and genre-confounding voices of our time. Recently released DVD Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell is less of a documentary and more of a deeply personal, posthumous tribute to Russell's life and work as one of the foremost unsung figures of '80s left-field, avant-garde pop and disco.
Russell's sound is full of soulful, strange, and falter
