ROMÉO POIRIER - Off The Record LP Screenprint filling out the arrangements

filling out the arrangements

its timestamps and scores are marked by encounters rather than tracks themselves

Howard and his weary

hands-on dubs

Like thunder rips across the sky

ROMÉO POIRIER - Off The Record LP Screenprint filling out the arrangementsOff The Record, the new album by French collagist Romo Poirier, is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public: we hear instructions from studio staff, scraps of talk between musicians, or just microphones being adjusted, as well as false notes, false starts: everyone stops. Start again: 1, 2, 3,