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Soft Landing

by Sandro Perri

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Nate Stevens
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Nate Stevens I have no idea if this is folk or rock or what, but man this is a sweet album with unbelievable amounts of heart! Favorite track: Wrong About The Rain.
alec critten
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alec critten The lush sounds of an imaginary summer, conjuring vivid images of sunsets and balconies. Subtle electronic flavors paired with intricate guitar soundscapes. The epitome of chill. Favorite track: Floriana.
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kilowattkate Imagine the sound of space so close to the ground, absorb the slow harmonies and enjoy the reflection.
Michael Mueller
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Michael Mueller Sandro Perri continues to refine his style (in this particular guise) whilst subtly extending its parameters.

Guitar to to the fore, Soft Landing, especially its epic first track, reminds me of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, if a David Gilmour (in the most mellow of moods) had played guitar on it.

A supine bath of an album, it ebbs and flows with a Spring-fused warmth, all cut grass and flowers beginning to bloom.

A blissful, meditative journey of an album. Timeless, really. Favorite track: Time (You Got Me).
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1.
I can remember not long ago I said you move too slow when people tried to tell me that you were on my side Now that we’ve spent some years together it seems like you’re more indifferent you don’t take sides Time, you got me Move most mysteriously in dreams Threads are not just what they seem Or maybe you’re immune to my prying eyes You’re not one to let yourself be seen but clearly at being watched you don’t think twice Time, you got me We’re gonna end up wherever we go but please can we take it slow People have been telling me that it’s a bumpy ride There’ll be some bruising busting on the sides It seems like you’ve found your way around the finish line Time, you got me Ryan Driver - flute Blake Howard - clave SP - bass, guitar, organ, percussion, piano, synth, tape effects
2.
Floriana 05:15
Ryan Driver - flute Blake Howard - congas John Jowett - euphonium Nicole Rampersaud - trumpet Mike Smith - bass SP - guitar, melodica, piano
3.
God blessed the fool he knows just what to do Some run around being silly and cool but… God blessed the fool They put you straight in school one and one you’ve got to call that two You’ve learned to hold the right face and not to drool but… God blessed the fool Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Some say you’re hard wired What kind of fool would dare try? Some learn to hot wire Head down and just give it time Three things I take as true: Sometimes she hides the golden rule Some turn to being chilly and cruel And God blessed the fool Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Deedly deedly dum dum Matt McLaren - Linn Drum SP - bass, clavinet, drums, guitar, piano, Rhodes, synth
4.
Back On Love 04:45
You can turn your back on showing You might turn on telling too You can turn your back on knowing and then it’s gone You can turn your back on giving You might turn on taking too You’ll burn your back just living You’ll take it on But who turns their back on love? Who turns their back on giving? Who turns their back on love? Who takes it on? You can turn your back on asking On anticipation too Silently there, asking you’ll say it all Now turned away from wondering Peek around the corner, nothing’s true Turning and simply wandering would bring it all smack down To who turns their back on love and who turns their back on asking who turns and who takes it on who takes it on and who brings it on Josh Cole - fretless bass Ryan Driver - flute Thomas Hammerton - Rhodes Blake Howard - congas Mike Smith - clavinet SP - bass, guitar, sampler, synth
5.
Easy as it is to listen tempted I may be to reshape love’s reality by way of gods and goddesses I’ve only come to know now that I’ve got up off my knees Easy as it is to come by fully formed and free evidence of some kind of distance taught mistakenly fundamentally stretching over a valley between Mama’s hills and Daddy’s knee What if they were wrong about the rain? In that valley they’re still growing songs much the same the same way a giver only knows to carry your pain the same way a beast sits and waits for anyone to call his name wrong about the rain I look up into whatever little piece of the sky seems to say it’s not gonna change I need the sand, I need the swim I need that thing that happens when out there all day, time slips away and we can be sure that we were wrong about the rain wrong about the rain Josh Cole - fretless bass Nick Fraser - drums Blake Howard – congas Mike Smith – Rhodes SP - bass, clavinet, guitar, percussion, piano, synth
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Soft Landing 05:59
Blake Howard - clave, congas, moose call Mike Smith - bass SP - clavinet, guitar, ocarina, piano, percussion, synth
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about

It took seven years for Sandro Perri to return with an album under his own name, releasing In Another Life (“his outsider pop masterpiece” — Exclaim) in the fall of 2018, as the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed full-length Impossible Spaces (#38 album of 2011 at Pitchfork, among other accolades). But the Perri floodgates have now well and truly opened: the flow of sparkling, eddying music he’s been meticulously doling out of late (including two recent volumes of collaborative avant-electronic work with his Off World project) charts another vital, rejuvenating tributary with Soft Landing.

Soft Landing features songs Perri has been playing around with for the better part of the last decade, taking many forms along the way, and recorded sporadically over a long period. It’s also his most guitar-based collection since 2007’s Tiny Mirrors. While Perri is rightly celebrated as “one of the most singular producers in contemporary music” (Boomkat) for his widely varied electronic work, his foundations as a guitarist have always anchored his ‘solo’ albums in one form or another. On Soft Landing, Perri’s guitar playing is at the smoothly, expressively rambling heart of these tunes — while his recording and mixing acumen as a (self-) producer is also on brilliant display.

As with last year’s In Another Life (which comprised two album-length sides of ‘infinite song’), Soft Landing opens with the 16-minute “Time (You Got Me)”, an enchanted mid-tempo excursion anchored by Perri’s gently sliding guitar riff and a serene vocal delivering lyrics that can be read as a wistfully acquiescent love letter to the fourth dimension. Paced by congas, shakers, claves, impressionistic piano and even the occasional wind chime, Perri wraps up his final vocal refrain by the song’s fifth minute and then steers the instrumental theme down a long and winding road in his inimitable style – like a stroll along a country lane where every glint of dappled sunlight catches another rustling, animate micro-detail. The album then shifts to what might be called more ‘finite’ songs (each clocking in at 4-6 minutes), with Side One’s closer “Floriana” representing one of two instrumentals, where an arpeggiated guitar riff makes the bed for a series of lovely and languorous melodic lines traded between electric lead guitar, trumpet and flute, that evoke sunrise in ways equally suited to waking up from a long restorative slumber or wrapping up an all-nighter.

“God Blessed The Fool” opens Side Two, a splendid stroke of sultry slow-burn soul that finds Sandro singing a literal chorus of “deedly deedly dum dum” in sweet falsetto. “Back On Love” is perhaps the album’s most familiar-sounding Perri tune and arguably the most explicit love song in his catalogue: a song about love itself, needless to say (it’s doubtful we’ll ever hear a “baby I want you back” jam from Perri). “Wrong About The Rain” channels only the choicest tropes of syncopated 70s-era soft-rock; Perri weaves ornate guitar licks around a succulent interplay between clavinet and trap kit, resulting in one of the most immediately satisfying tunes he’s ever put to tape – high praise for someone with Perri’s stellar catalogue to date, but we’re confident fans will agree. Thanks for listening.

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released September 6, 2019

Music and lyrics by Sandro Perri. Recorded at 6 Nassau and Sonology, Toronto 2015-2019. Mixed West of Vinny’s. Mastered at Grey Market by Harris Newman. Layout by Ian Ilavsky and Davin Risk. Published by Ribbon Music 2019.

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