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Glissandro 70
Constellation
POST ROCK
- Beginning in 2003 as a one-off commission for audio weblog MUTED TONES
(from which opening track "Something" is excerpted and re-edited),
this debut record from GLISSANDRO 70 is the result of two years of intermittent
collaboration between Toronto's SANDRO PERRI (POLMO POLPO, CONTINUOUS DICK)
and CRAIG DUNSMUIR (GUITARKESTRA).
- This five-song full-length circles at the intersection of pop song
and extended dub, cribbed lyric and wordless chant, odd meter and straight
beat.
- Playful nods to dance music's misfit past both direct (the use of
chanted quotes from MODEL 500 and TALKING HEADS) and secondhand ("Analogue
Shantytown's debt to ARTHUR RUSSELL and WALTER GIBBONS) are kept in check
by Dunsmuir and Perri's respective rhythmic and timbral acuities, ensuring
that this is no mere exercise in exorcism.
- The paper-and-glue collage of the album's cover art suitably riffs
on a glossy West End disco jacket of a quarter-century ago, rendering it
instead as DIY bedroom cut-and-paste. The music within perfectly reflects
this aesthetic: an exuberant home-studio celebration of airbrushed, pastel-coloured
80s dance music, with an emphasis on the trancey, guitar-driven, afrobeat-
and dub-inflected strains of said era.
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CST037CD |
$28.95 |
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LPx1 |
CST037LP |
$35.00 |
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