Arcturian Corridor

by Woo

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Fabio Viola Liquid sounds and an inventive approach to composition make this album a very fulfilling experience. Electronic fluids mix with jazzy atmospheres and an undercurrent of clubbiness. Thoroughly enjoyable and surprising. A must-have imo. The three remixes are awesome too. Favorite track: Arc IV.

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1.	Arc I 04:42 video	info	buy track
2.	Arc II 04:14		buy track
3.	Arc III 03:57	info	buy track
4.	Arc IV 03:40		buy track
5.	Arc V 04:17		buy track
6.	Love On Other Planets (Woo Remix) 05:13		buy track
7.	Arc V (Wino Wagon Remix) 07:42 video		buy track
8.	Arc II (Ultramarine Remix) 04:18 video		buy track

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The premise for Quindi Records is simple – to represent music with a universality at its core. Without adhering to specific genre tropes, the releases are intended to have a meaning and purpose in all kinds of situations – a social soundtrack as much as a stimulating experience, feeding emotions and the psyche with a sentimental palette of sounds. Lovers’ music, loners’ music, music for friends and family alike.

Woo makes for a perfect choice to meet this loose concept head-on – the music of Clive and Mark Ives straddles disparate worlds and finds its own peculiar balance. On one hand it’s delicate synthesizer music with a minimalist bent, while on the other their joyous, twinkling harmonies have an immediacy that speaks to the soul. You can detect privacy in their craft – the brothers originally recorded their music in relative isolation in London in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. It’s only in recent years their sublime work has enjoyed a wider audience through an extensive run of reissues.
Arcturian Corridor presents a rare, previously unreleased piece of music from Woo – the expansive suite of the title track that unfurls across five parts. It’s an enchanting listen that shows a new breadth and depth to the duo – detailed drum programming and a broader palette of synth tones cascading in elegant unison. The name refers to Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the night sky. As Woo themselves explain, “The Arcturian Corridor is said to be a channel of light that brings unconditional love and wisdom from Arcturus to Earth.”
In addition to the 20-minute A-side piece, Woo also presents a new version of “Love On Other Planets”, a standout piece from their 1990 album Into The Heart of Love . The fragile subtlety of the original has been embellished here with rich new passages that turn it into a kind of electronica epic, although still marked out with the sensitivity one expects from a Woo record.
Two remixes complete the set, both furthering Quindi’s modus operandi as a genre-agnostic force for cosmically charged music. Dublin’s Wah Wah Wino collective present their Wino Wagon manifestation for a tastefully strange house version of the fifth part of “Arcturian Corridor” that channels the freakiness of Pepe Bradock, the robo-funk of Metro Area and a soupcon of pop nous. British duo Ultramarine maintain the stylistic ambiguity as they channel decades of expressive experimentation between live band dynamics and machine soul on their version of the title track’s second chapter.

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released June 19, 2020

Clive Ives: Electronics

Mark Ives: Bass on Arc I, Guitar on Arc III
Larry Llyod: Guitar on Arc I

All tracks written & produced by Clive Ives

Mastered by MA Spaventi

Manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik

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Oddly dubby, mesmeric, insular, playful, undefinable, instantly recognisable, warm, romantic, optimistic, ethereal, timeless, pop music for another universe, time-locked into the spirit of ’67, witty yet quintessentially British, futuristic elevator muzak. ... more

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