AndrÈe Burelli De Sidera Unipak Jacket w/ Insert Featuring Liner Notes Always Sideways A2

Always Sideways A2

Annoyed by the congolisation of the Ivorian music that was taking place within the band

Marshall Allen’s skronking sax

Johnston played piano on friend Sandy Nelson's hit single

and trying to discover new things about this work

AndrÈe Burelli De Sidera Unipak Jacket w/ Insert Featuring Liner Notes Always Sideways A2Though any and all vocals on De Sidera are wordless, language is central to the album. I try to make my vocalisms sound like words, she explains, but it is a kind of invented language. Somehow the form, the signifier, is enough to express meaning, sense, emotion. Burelli notes that this concept has resonance with her practice in Greek and Turkish music, in which wordless vocals and instrumental improvisations are common. This is front and center on a