UK orders over £50 ship free!
...according to our Brian on Tue 28 Nov, 2006.
Oooh don't reckon i've heard much to shout about on top Canadian post everything imprint Constellation for a while. A new disc from Glissandro 70 has plopped into my pile and from the off I'm thinking maybe Long Fin Killie's out-folk mandolins & spindly guitar remixed by a beatless Orb. Spectral strings layered with enveloping ambient textures that really soothe. Nextly, quirk-out scratchy entwined guitar overlaid with tantric chants, both playful & hypnotic with an understated latin samba shuffle. Well pretty indeed. This vein of offbeat mantra like beauty continues throughout (even taking in a U2 style guitar coda on track 3) so i'd definitely say these 5 tunes for fans of Gang Gang Dance, Thinking Fellers, Long Fin Killie, Animal Collective & the Constellation output in general. Class.Beginning in summer 2003 as a one-off commission for audio weblog Muted Tones (from which opening track "Something" is excerpted and re-edited), this debut record is the result of two years of intermittent collaboration between Toronto's Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo, Continuous Dick) and Craig Dunsmuir (Guitarkestra). Produced by Perri with Dunsmuir and written by Dunsmuir with Perri, 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. Chiefly a studio project, Glissandro 70 mounts the occasional live show but plans to concentrate on remixes and new home recordings in 2006.
Be the first to review this record. Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!
Norman Records,
Unit 20, Croydon House,
Croydon Street,
Leeds,
LS11 9RT, UK.
Tel/fax: (+44) 0113 245 4399
Email: phil@normanrecords.com
Follow us on Facebook
We want to be the best online record store in the UK, so please send us your ideas and feedback.
(We don't spam and we won't give your email address to anyone else. One email a week is all you'll ever get. Read our privacy policy.)
For payment and account functions on this site, all traffic is encrypted with SSL. Our SSL certificate is provided by Thawte: view our certificate.
This site is regularly audited for security problems by Netcraft. For more information please take a look at our Netcraft Security Seal.
We don't handle credit card details on this site. When it comes to taking your card payment we hand you straight over to eWAY - a secure, PCI DSS compliant payment gateway.
