Recording: Sandro Perri

Artist: Sandro Perri

Songs: In Another Life + Everybody's Paris, Pt. 3 (feat. Dan Bejar)

Recorded at The Great Hall, October 21, 2018.

Sandro Perri - In Another Life

Sandro Perri feat. Dan Bejar - Everybody's Paris, Pt. 3

A few weeks before the official release party for his new album, Sandro Perri shared the whole thing in a stripped-down format with the audience at Dan Bejar's solo acoustic gig. One suspects that the show's lineup, with Perri and Andre Ethier opening, came about to give a chance for a full exploration of Perri's musical experiment in "Everybody's Paris", where the tune and refrain were handed over to Bejar and Ethier to sing their own versions — that triple-header was indeed replicated after the set's other song, the "infinite" bobble'n'drift of "In Another Life".¹ Unlike the subtly-shifting soundscapes in the album versions, Perri here relied mostly just on voice and guitar, though he did have a mixer at his feet to slowly adjust the background textures (and mutual shared thread Joseph Shabason also added some understated sax licks to the Bejar collaboration).

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¹ As an aside, I dunno if this has been examined elsewhere, but that style of an ambling tune, drifting and noodling along at extended length has plenty of companions and antecedents in the local "school" of composers such as Martin Arnold, Allison Cameron, John Mark Sherlock, and Eldritch Priest. I don't know if there's a direct line of influence here, but given Perri's proximity to some on that list it's tempting to find connections to these rubber wagons and mole meanders bouncing down bumpy sideroads.