Brooklyn duo Pearl Necklace (Bryce Hackford and Frank Lyon) share a fascination with text - with language, sound, meaning and with forms of communication. Soft Opening is a subtle but distinct dissemination of all of that, wherein all we think we know is revealed to be, in fact, quite alien. Pearl Necklace define their SoundWorld by an open-minded approach to sampling, using source material of various fidelities - field recordings, Library records, dusted disco cuts, etc., and live, primarily synth-based instrumentation, plus definitive use of an MPC1000 sampler. Features contributions from Smalltown alumnus, ARP.