{"title":"Off World","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"3-11","title":"3","description":"\u003cp\u003eOff World presents the final album in its trilogy of surreal and spacious leftfield electronics. \"A stellar project headed by Sandro Perri, one of the most singular producers in contemporary music\" (Boomkat), this third volume is another distinctive collection of tracks constructed from semi-improvised ensemble recordings made over the past decade with a varied cast of co-conspirators. Drew Brown, Matthew Cooper, Susumu Mukai and Andrew Zukerman join Perri again on a variety of synths and machines, along with violinist Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Fond Of Tigers). Perri also continues to add organ and piano to the mix, while Volume 3 notably features firsttime Off World contributors Nicole Rampersaud on trumpet and Martin Arnold on guitar, both mainstays of Toronto's vibrant improv and out-music scenes. The Quietus calls Off World \"genuinely explorative…the musical equivalent of a Dali-esque landscape\" which through all sorts of genre-defying twists and turns, at times evokes \"off-kilter, late Miles Davis ambience\". Off World 3 doubles down on that jazz-adjacent trope in certain respects, while holding fast to Pitchfork's dictum that Perri \"cultivates his own genreless brand of futurism.\" Marked by longer tracks than previous collections, three of the album's five songs clock in around the 10-minute mark, where overtly improvised instrumental playing wends its way across alternately bubbling and woozy electronic beds. \"Impulse Controller\" is a languidly skewed rhumba where ambling melodic undercurrents and dubby electronic pointillism provide a dulcet promenade for Rampersaud's Miles-esque trumpet excursions. \"Ludic Loop\" see-saws along in a slow synthy two-step, punctuated by Perri's restrained piano chords and Arnold's fried electric guitar. \"Empasse\" is perhaps most reminiscent of earlier Off World collections, though again slowed and stretched, with oozing synth bass ostinatos counterposed by ambient layers of viola and violin filigree from Zubot. These three centerpiece longform tracks each highlight one of the album's instrumental improvisers, and taken together, make for the most scintillating sedate and ruminant album in the trilogy. Off World 3 sounds as sui generis as ever, but in wrapping up the series, Perri sprinkles the project's emblematic alien surrealism with decidedly anthropic elements and temporalities. This final volume in the trilogy could also be seen as a re-statement of the politico-aesthetic mission that Pitchfork aptly celebrates in its glowing reviews of Perri's two most recent solo albums, In Another Life (2018) and Soft Landing (2019), that were released between Off World 2 and the present volume: a uniquely purposeful, subtly detailed cannon of songs \"busy, vibrant, and bursting with life, but that aren't ever in a rush to get anywhere\". Thanks for listening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50435127345483,"sku":"2056808","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50435127935307,"sku":"2056814","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Off_World__3_1b27901b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726900199"},{"product_id":"1-8","title":"1","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrated Toronto-based composer, producer and songwriter Sandro Perri is one of Constellation's most long-standing and artistically diverse music-makers, known both for the pulsing, longform instrumental work released in the early 2000s as Polmo Polpo and the tropicalia-, jazz- and prog-influenced vocal music brilliantly showcased on 2011's Impossible Spaces. Over the past couple of years Perri has been letting us in on a fascinating treasure chest of strange and enchanting collaborative recordings, which, now rounded up under the project name Off World, will begin to see release over the next few seasons. Chiefly a studio-based endeavour, the project traces its origins as far back as 2008 when Perri and fellow Torontonian Lorenz Peter began working together, now expanded to encompass collaborations with many other producers and musicians, including Drew Brown (Lower Dens, Blonde Redhead), Susumu Mukai (Zongamin), M J Silver (Mickey Moonlight), Craig Dunsmuir, Jesse Zubot and Eric Chenaux. 1 is alien electronics played humanly, with real-world accents throughout, rich in deconstructed melody, interplay between acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and pointillist and aleatory composition techniques. Off World resists easy categorization: not ambient \"easy listening\", not strictly \"improvised\", not \"retro\" - but eccentrically absorbing and soothingly mischievous as it charts its own sonic trails. \u003cbr\u003eCD in 100% recycled gatefold paperboard jacket. \u003cbr\u003eLP - 180 Gram LP audiophile pressing includes pull-out art print poster and 320kbps mp3 DL.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494431658315,"sku":"405949","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fb7e1c0e-a9b8-40b0-a759-529d554aed73_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727705468"},{"product_id":"2-14","title":"2","description":"\u003cp\u003e180 Gram Vinyl with Poster and Download. One of 2016's strangest, most hypnotic and charming albums of experimental synth-electronic music was volume \u003ci\u003e1 \u003c\/i\u003efrom Off World, about which Boomkat said \"a stellar new project headed by Sandro Perri, one of the most singular producers in contemporary music; featuring some of the most inventive, spellbinding work in his catalogue. One of the most original and satisfying albums we've heard this year -can't wait to see what the next installments bring.\" This is the next installment, fittingly titled \u003ci\u003e2\u003c\/i\u003e. Perri has been drip-feeding Constellation bundles of tracks culled from a fascinating bounty of private and previously unreleased tracks that has been accumulating for some time -a tickle trunk of enchantingly left-of-leftfield collaborative recordings rich in deconstructed melody and rhythm, pointillist and aleatory composition techniques, primarily employing a wide array of vintage synths and drum machines. Co-conspirators include producers Lorenz Peter (Processor), Drew Brown (Lower Dens, Beck) and Susumu Mukai (Zongamin), and instrumentalists Craig Dunsmuir (Glissandro 70, Kanada 70) and Eric Chenaux, among others. Off World is alien electronics played humanly, resulting in genuinely exploratory and peculiar electronic music that sounds like it could have issued from any time in the past 40-50 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50497545601355,"sku":"1017021","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3919996e-16b1-4409-bb96-7c9177bf201a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727728536"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/off-world.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}