LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and comes in a jacket printed on heavyweight 24pt paperboard with black audiophile poly-lined dust sleeve, 12"x19" art print poster, credit insert sheet,and 320kbps MP3 download card.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on uncoated 100% recycled Orford paperboard.
Get this album as part of a 3-for-2 (33% off) bundle featuring this artist’s discography
1. Changes
2. Love & Light
3. How Will I?
4. Futureactive Kid (Part I)
5. Futureactive Kid (Part II)
6. Wolfman
7. Impossible Spaces
Running time: 00:38:33
LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and comes in a jacket printed on heavyweight 24pt paperboard with black audiophile poly-lined dust sleeve, 12"x19" art print poster, credit insert sheet,and 320kbps MP3 download card.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on uncoated 100% recycled Orford paperboard.
"Impossible Spaces truly synthesizes [Perri's] myriad musical interests and places equal emphasis on rhythm, texture, and melody. With Perri backed once again by a coterie of Toronto improv-scene all stars, the album strikes an uncanny balance between sounding ambitiously executed and completely off-the-cuff; an epic of both accident and design. Impossible Spaces isn't simply the most accessible and immediately rewarding album to bear Sandro Perri's name, it also serves as a handy musical roadmap to its maker's sinuous creative course." – Pitchfork (8.3)
"While Perri pulls from some bright places like California and Brazil, there is still a dark bent to the record. Dissonant chords, truncated melodies and unresolved patterns make for surprise shifts in direction, but the heady notions are often balanced nicely by a relaxed, almost improvisatory delivery. Impossible Spaces is one of the more all-encompassing albums I’ve had the pleasure of taking this year. Even after a dozen listens, it’s evident that mysteries remain to be decoded, chief among them the way Perri spins anti-matter and intangibles into something undeniably real." – Dusted
"Idiosyncratic visionary Sandro Perri strikes the dearest conflation of his eclectic interests with Impossible Spaces, an ambitiously bold statement, sure to stand as one of the finest records of the year. As he did on 2007's brilliant Tiny Mirrors, Perri finds a majestic meeting place for disparate sounds, but he's chosen a livelier home for his ideas here. Driven by synths, drums, guitars and various woodwinds and horns, the record is stirring, happily mired in a dreamy temporal confusion." – Exclaim!
"I’ve long been a believer in Sandro Perri’s immense musical talents, from his days blending dance music and lap steel as Polmo Polpo to his avant-folk work under his own name and his math-rock ethno-pop experiments with Craig Dunsmuir as Glissandro 70. Impossible Spaces is a big leap forward. Perri hasn’t turned his back on his experimental tendencies. He’s still jumping between genres with the nimbleness of a squirrel, but the leaps between electronic, pop, jazz, folk and experimental now seem completely natural rather than superhuman attempts to break new ground. All that brainy musician stuff offers something for music critics to sink their teeth into, but it’s the strikingly gorgeous songwriting and performances that are going to finally catapult Perri to the larger audience he deserves." – NOW Toronto (5/5)
"It’s the sweetness of the voice and the liquid tone of the guitar that draw me in, but the subtle shifts in key, the clever instrumentation, the aching cello and odd flute, the broken lines and strangely abbreviated melodies that make me listen again, confuse and enchant, charm and intoxicate. This is rich, sumptuous, soulful music, intelligently composed and passionately performed." – Stereophile
"I've had Impossible Spaces in the deck for weeks now. Yes, it has proved worth the wait." – Aquarium Drunkard
"Elements of electronica, jazz, bossa nova, lounge, soul and much more effortlessly evolve a pop-soaked, constantly shifting groove that melds perfectly with Perri's heartfelt songwriting, on this most wonderfully diverse and engaging of albums." – Rock-A-Rolla
"Impossible Spaces sounds both instantly familiar and startlingly original, timeless but defiantly forward-facing, but to try and describe its wondrous charms in any great detail could not do it justice; suffice to say it’s a magical listen, and a very strong contender for 2011’s “album of the year” title." – Foam hands
"There is no real criticism that can be thrown against Impossible Spaces with its abundance of skilful and stunning ideas, aural imagery, and unconventional spirit and intellectual composition. Impossible Spaces is a wondrous delight… a release that still pushes boundaries and will inspire many, listeners and musicians alike. It should also be on everyone’s to listen to list." – Alternative Matter
"The compositions that multi-instrumentalist and borderline musical genius Sandro Perri creates on his latest LP, Impossible Spaces, are more than simply jaw dropping and immensely enjoyable. The songs are a lifeboat in the middle of a seemingly endless ocean of music, trying to preserve not only what we love about music, but what we love about the individualism of art." – HeroHill
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