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Glissandro

May 4th, 2006

Glissandro 70
Glissandro 70
Rating: 9.0
[Constellation; 2006; Electronic]

While yesterday’s featured record by About, Glissandro 70’s debut also blurs the line between pop and electronic, but is much further into the electronic territory in terms of it’s sparse, and non-structured use of vocals and choice of old school dance music chant samples - Model 500 and Talking Heads. On the other hand, it has many organic elements such as the abstract combination of acoustic guitars, warm synth, bassy beat and dark samples of apocalyptic folk opener “Something”. Immediately following is the dub-y “Analogue Shantytown”, with it’s intro of “analogue shantytown” being loudly whispered through a harmonica, funky electric guitars, maracas and world beat rhythm while the epic, 13 minute closer, “End West” drifts along with a rapid but subdued, pulsing undercurrent of bass, spacey electronic bits, chimes, pounding drums and horns that builds to a richly textured sound at its peak and winds down to gently guide you out of a truely satisfying listen.

This excellent record began as a commission for an audio blog and evolved over a period of 2 years into a full-fledged, fully realized record. Fortunately for the world, Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo, Continuous Dick) and Craig Dunsmuir (Guitarkestra) didn’t leave off at that one single track. As with all other Constellation records I’ve heard, truely talented musicians and utterly original.

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