(2006)

“Glissandro 70’s self-titled CD is one of the more auspicious debuts to come down the pike in a long while.” - All music guide

“Perri and Dunsmuir…playfully plunder, appropriate and recombine multiple idioms, sliding from one to another with a pan-cultural finesse and perspicacity.” - Signal to Noise

“…this is experimental that feels boldly sentimental and approachable; radical pop music that beats with the warmth of a human heart.”
- Artnoise

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From the Constellation website:

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 Sandro Perri 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.

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Release Date: March 6/20, 2006
Label: Constellation (CST037)
Format: CD / 180g LP

1. Something
2. Analogue Shantytown
3. Bolan Muppets
4. Portugal Rua Rua
5. End West

Total duration: 36:27

Written and performed by Craig Dunsmuir with Sandro Perri
Produced by Sandro Perri with Craig Dunsmuir 2004-2006

Mastered by Harris Newman

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