VIEW RECORDS BY:        NEW        NEW & UPCOMING        BANDS:        SOFA        GODSPEED YOU!        BLACK EMPEROR        EXHAUST        DO MAKE SAY THINK        SACKVILLE        FLY PAN AM        SILVER MT ZION        FRANKIE SPARO        1-SPEED BIKE        RE:        HANGEDUP        POLMO POLPO        ELIZABETH ANKA VAJAGIC        BLACK OX ORKESTAR        HRSTA        GLISSANDRO 70        FEU THERESE        CARLA BOZULICH        SANDRO PERRI        ERIC CHENAUX        LULLABYE ARKESTRA        VIC CHESNUTT        CST#        001-005        006-010        011-015        016-020        021-025        026-030        031-035        036-040        041-045        046-050        COMPILATION        TEXT        VIEW TEXT LIST        DOWNLOAD TEXT LIST        GLISSANDRO 70 Glissandro 70 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.