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In Another Life

by Sandro Perri

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1.
Let me in to this impossible dream And know how not to know just what that means Except to think of all that might be seen In another life No position, no ladder, nor pit No response correct or unfit Except where evenly sacrifice split In another life Level field, what goal is the game? Any answer, a question remains Flourish and without expansion or gain In another life No love go undiscovered in hate Or disadvantage in tragic state No delusion about what is great In another life Humiliation, nor private distress Breed obedience nor deviants No sway in praise or in incense In another life Power seen in true and clear light Loss unburdened in natural flight Nothing to have, no reason to fight In another life Black, brown, red, blue yellow, green and white Seen and understood in each it’s own right And so freely goes a child at night In another life No word sent to distract or devise Smokescreen, lightening, filler or guise As in distance and closeness alike In another life No intelligent test in class No touch too soft or too crass Physically possible one’s head up one’s ass In another life What use grafting sport to art? Or pulling horse from cart? Just confusion about whole and part None imprisoned by the word free No fool falling for what they believe Endless chances between you and me In another life For the rape of mind, body and earth and the animal of engineered worth The seed of greed dissolved in thirst In another life No rhyme at any cost or expense Beats a rhythm born of defense True disharmony right here on the fence In another life Beyond the choice, create or destroy Inherit, steal, gift or employ Fair is far too small a word we’d enjoy In another life Hold a promise no bigger than two hands Hope scaled and re-read in human And not reduced to a list of demands In another life Josh Cole - fretless bass Thomas Hammerton - piano SP - guitar, Rhodes, synth, voice
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Everybody's Paris, everybody's France Everybody comin’ when they get the chance Everybody’s notion is to everybody's way as everybody’s lotion is to everybody’s pain Everybody waking in the morning in a trance forgotten dreams, nothing left to chance Everybody flashes inner light Everybody darker who been betrayed last night Though not the point of view from which I get up out of bed Stuffed inside the pillow it’s underneath my head but it won’t take me down today Everybody found it, everybody sure Everybody found a little less, a little more Everybody's nightmares are gettin’ in the way Everybody's schemes crumblin’ true today Everybody’s softer than they're lettin’ on Everybody harder now that loneliness is gone Not everybody’s over yesterday It’s a spell we’re under, keeps us caught up in its sway While every day light, while every day long every day chasin’ through dark tunnels in this song Where everybody’s eyes and everybody 's bust Everybody universe, everybody dust Though not the point of view from which I get up out of bed Stuffed inside the pillow sideways in my head Morning's still a game, there’s no one really to blame for how I love you Everybody’s straight up runnin’ the same way Everybody older even if you’re born today Everybody knows but I’m so confused Every day anew and every night feelin’ used When everyone’s a piece in everybody’s chain there’s right in losing and at least that much in gain Cuz everybody finds that everybody flips Today you're rushing, tomorrow just a drip Could be anybody's black dog just outside the door Everybody's right now could use a little more Everybody's right here if you give 'em half a chance Everybody's Paris, everybody's France Maxime Chamoux - tin can Thomas Hammerton - piano Mike Smith - synth Ernie Tollar - soprano saxophone Jesse Zubot - viola, violin SP - bass, organ, Rhodes, synth, vocoder, voice
3.
Everybody’s gardens, everybody’s gates Everybody’s pusher’s pushin’ everybody’s weight Everybody’s Paris, everybody’s spring Everybody feels the same way about a lot of things Everybody’s putting away the plates washing the glasses, seeing their face Looking over my shoulder, everybody’s there I step into a doorway, I slip into a chair I thought as we were walking you would offer me a line the way a lover somehow does from time to time but noo-o Everybody’s flowers, love to be received held up to our noses, everybody’s pleased Everybody sees you, everybody smiles Everybody’s nails come out, everybody files Everybody circles, everybody bows Everybody’s hands are held as long as it’s allowed Above the chimneys, up above the clouds everybody’s airplane is looking for the ground Everybody’s in Paris, everybody’s been seen Everybody’s been recognized when they’re waking from a dream Like the sunlight in the morning the stars at night Everybody feels just like me and everybody’s right I thought as we were walking you would offer me a line the way a lover somehow does from time to time but no one takes comfort in lovers holding hands any more Everybody’s garden, everybody’s gates Everybody’s pusher’s pushin’ someone else’s weight Everybody’s Paris, everybody’s spring everybody feels the same way about a lot of things Everybody’s putting away the plates washing the glasses, seeing their face Looking over my shoulder, everybody’s there I step into a doorway, I slip into a chair Everybody’s flowers, love to be received held up to our noses, everybody sneeze Michael Davidson, vibraphone Ryan Driver - flute Andre Ethier - lyrics, voice Karen Ng - soprano saxophone Mike Smith - bongos, triangle SP - conga, guitar, synth, vocoder
4.
Did I really mean to do this? London and Rome feel sickeningly real not everybody’s Paris Where everybody wants to be a cat Everybody’s Paris, everybody’s France Everybody thinks this wasn’t anybody’s last chance Everybody wants, everybody gets cigarettes In a city of lights In a city that lights up Everybody wants to fall and get back up but all around you the dead stack up in everybody’s Paris Look just go to the end of the road then you back up A labouring angel needs a baby to be born to a young man with a horn in everybody’s Paris The ceiling fan looks like a plan for a sky designed to cut you to shreds to tear you to pieces To tear you to pieces, to tear you to pieces, to cut you to shreds, to tear you to pieces to cut you to shreds, to tear you to shreds in everybody’s Paris It’s your city of light It’s your city that lights up Everybody’s Paris, everybody’s France Everybody thinks this was everybody’s last chance The nameless, the named the blameless dead apples The last thing we need in this world is something to sing about Everyone go right ahead, everyone shred Love is good but love can be wielded in everybody’s Paris Where everybody haunts a haunted house Wherever you go, I wanted you there 10 feet in the snow, an inch from the air in everybody’s Paris Everybody’s Paris, along the river Seine swore I would never do this to you again Dan Bejar - lyrics, voice Josh Cole - fretless bass Joseph Shabason - tenor saxophone Mike Smith - Rhodes bass Jesse Zubot - viola, violin SP - guitar, harmonica, vocoder
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about

Sandro Perri returns with In Another Life, his first new solo album since the acclaimed Impossible Spaces from 2011 (which garnered a Best New Track and Top 50 Albums of 2011 from Pitchfork, among many other accolades). Perri has been called “one of the most singular producers in contemporary music” (Boomkat) and his long affiliation with Constellation through various electronic and singer-songwriter guises (Polmo Polpo, Glissandro 70, Off World) has produced a uniquely adventurous and iconoclastic discography. In Another Life expands on this in peerless fashion.

The new album is what Perri describes as “an experiment in ‘infinite’ songwriting.” The title track is a 24-minute pop mantra for sequenced synth, piano, guitar and voice, progressing sideways rather than forward. A relaxed three-chord vamp runs the length of the album’s Side One, peppered with Sandro’s languid, lilting vocal and adorned with continually developing musical details – massaging the listener with the joys of repetition while defying stasis and monotony. Like the longer-form work of fellow-travellers Bill Callahan, Destroyer or Arthur Russell, Perri extends the notion of the meditative minimalist pop song to its literal maximum, flouting ‘commercial’ concerns in our streamingly short-attention-span era – and perhaps implicitly calling for a politics of slow consumption? The lyric of “In Another Life” suggests as much, moving through bemused critiques and degrees of equivocation about unrealized utopias, culminating with the final stanza: “Beyond the choice of create or destroy / inherit, steal, gift or employ / Fair is far too small a word we’d enjoy / In another life / So hold a promise no bigger than two hands / Hope scaled and re-read in human / And not reduced to a list of demands / In another life.”

Side Two of In Another Life features a similar approach, though in a distinct 3-part series: “Everybody’s Paris” begins with Perri on vocals, with the mic then handed over to André Ethier (The Deadly Snakes) and Dan Bejar (Destroyer) respectively, who each take a vocal turn singing lyrics of their own. Sandro calls this “a song-cycle designed to accept any lyrical variation fed into it: a fill-in-the-blanks questionnaire in the form of a song.” Of course “Everybody’s Paris” ends up being much more than this, with the evocative phrase of the song’s title serving as the lyrical tent pole and recurring refrain; an anchor point for signification and sentiment that intentionally belies the suggestion of anything prosaic or administrative about Perri’s formal conceit. In the hands of these three master lyricists and voices – and with Perri subtly reconfiguring the instrumentation and arrangements for each of the three parts – “Everybody’s Paris” emerges as a profound and fitting sibling (a set of triplet brothers?) to Side One’s ‘infinite’ title track.

The result is a gently yet enormously affecting album that basks thoughtfully and discerningly in a slow, sweet melancholia. In Another Life is a supremely listenable return to form for Sandro Perri, the music like a temporal analogue to a tender nature tableau registering slight changes under shifting light and a meditative gaze: at once appearing to signify only itself, while auguring the promise of harmonious life.

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released September 14, 2018

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