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Off World
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[ Constellation Records / LP ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 October 2016

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The debut collection of roving, semi-improvised, collaborative song deconstructions by Off World, featuring long-standing Constellation artist Sandro Perri and a coterie of fellow-traveling producers. Off World is the moniker under which a stockpile of primarily electronic, studio-based instrumental works will be issued over the next couple of years - this first volume rounds up music that emerged from a 2-day session in London orchestrated by producer Drew Brown (Lower Dens, Blonde Redhead, Beck), between himself, Perri, Susumu Mukai (Zongamin) and M J Silver (Mickey Moonlight) after learning that Perri was a huge fan of both Mukai and Silver's work.

Off World 1 resists easy categorization: not ambient "easy listening", not strictly "improvised", not "retro" - but eccentrically absorbing and soothingly mischievous electronic instrumentals, where vintage synthesizers and drum machines bubble and lurch, testing boundaries of melody and structure, with occasional accents from traditional/acoustic instrumentation. The result is genuinely exploratory, peculiar, warm and sui generis electronic music that sounds like it could have issued from any time in the past 40-50 years.

Packaging notes
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.

"Off World is a stellar new project headed by one of the most singular producers in contemporary music; Sandro Perri, who's probably best known to us for his spellbinding dub-disco-psychedelia take on Arthur Russell as Polmo Polpo, but here indulging in a fascination for much stranger, alien tones in free-floating arrangements of jazz, prog and ambient electronics sounding something like Rashad Becker via Pekka Airaksinen. There's no mistaking that this is an important project for Perri, featuring some of the most inventive, spellbinding work in his catalogue. It's also one of the most original and satisfying albums we've heard this year - can't wait to see what the next installments bring." - Boomkat

Tracks:

1. Primitive Streak
2. Old Brain
3. No Host
4. Extraction
5. Choral Hatch
6. New Brain
7. Wonder Farm