Off World 1 is alien electronics played humanly, with real-world accents
throughout, conceived almost entirely during a 2-day session in London: a
meeting orchestrated by producer Drew Brown between himself, Perri, Susumu
Mukai and M J Silver after learning that Perri was a huge fan of both Mukai and
Silver's work. A bounty of raw material featuring mostly vintage synthesizers -
EMS Synthi, Syntorchestra, Prophet 5 - was later abetted by violin, banjo,
harpsichord, guitar and piano. The result is genuinely exploratory and peculiar sui
generis instrumental electronic music that sounds like it could have issued from
any time in the past 40-50 years. Off World resists easy categorization: not ambient
"easy listening", not strictly "improvised", not "retro" - but eccentrically
absorbing and soothingly mischievous as it wends its own sonic trails.
