GLISSANDRO 70 - G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa

Glissandro 70 is the name behind which Craig Dunsmuir (Guitarkestra) and Sandro Perri (ex-Polmo Polpo) operate, and among all of Sandro Perri's artistic outlets it's perhaps the most experimental: an avant-folk warped by oblique dance sonorities, tribal touches, electronic tribulations with a graceful tone, and jazz-dub forms that take Arthur Russell and The Books as their model, before aligning with that school of thought which crosses art-pop with electronics.

The new Glissandro 70 album arrives twenty years after their first intriguing chapter, though most of the material was actually conceived shortly after their 2006 debut or in the following months. Scheduled and postponed several times so that Craig Dunsmuir could make some changes, the album was shelved after Sandro Perri accidentally deleted the tapes. The purely chance discovery of some reels containing raw tracks convinced the duo to pick the project back up.

Time changes perspectives and approaches, and the two musicians found the key to making "G70 2: Bones Of Dundasa" work. Placed at the start of the album, the cover version of the late Arthur Russell's "Lucky Cloud", featuring Peter Zummo on trombone, is the only track that revives the hypnotic, psychedelic atmosphere of the first album. The rest is musically fragmentary and exploratory, with the exception of an elegant cover of a Moondog song ("You The Vandal") and a remix of one of the tracks from the first record ("Bolan Muppets – Dan Bodan Remix").

Anyone familiar with records like Andy Partridge's "Take Away/The Lure Of Savage" or David Byrne's "The Catherine Wheel" will easily recognize the fine minimal-afro-dance-beat rhythmic interplay running through these short tracks.

Evocative and tribal ("Pad Tide"), eccentric ("Vila Inerane"), minimal to the point of insubstantiality ("Jackpot Porthole Eleven"), bold ("Tomber") and raw ("Aquatint"), the compositions form a delightful patchwork that's perhaps less focused than the band's distant 2006 record, but at the same time captures a situationist ethic and aesthetic far more in tune with the times we live in.

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01/06/2026