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Furtherset — To Live Tenderly Anew — OUS031 — Album

Release: December 11, 2020 Format: cassette + digital Order on Bandcamp Listen on Spotify

«I am interested in pushing the compositional methods I’ve developed to their limits. I’m interested in density, intensity, fragility, and emotions.» - Furtherset

Furtherset returns to -OUS with his album ‘To Live Tenderly Anew’, following his EPs ‘To Alter and Affect’ and ‘Drawings of Desire and Hate’. He notes: “I think of my previous two EPs for -OUS and this album as a trilogy, where this album is the final chapter”. Furtherset is in search of hidden connections beyond harmonies and rhythm. Melodies are repeated until they reach their breaking point. Moments of relief are drowned out in densely packed sound. Intensity is maximized to the nth degree, creating a crest point that threatens to overwhelm pre-existing traces of activity completely. The opening track ‘To Live Tenderly Anew’ begins with a fragile melody, only to erupt into pulsating synthesizer figures that continuously expand, before pulverizing into sharp, noise-flecked fragments, and finally dissolving into an ambient pad. Midway-through ‘The Logic of a Secret’, the music finally sparks into Furtherset’s signature arpeggio patterns, sprinting over a powerful bassline. The album finally climaxes with ‘Choirs of Deception and Truth’, a beatless rave hymn, before it, too, dissolves into deep space.

Using only synthesizers, Furtherset creates metamorphic music, drawing on ambient, modern classical and rave, and building on his individual approach to composition, where long fades and periodic cuts continuously transform the scene.

The album’s title references Amelia Rosselli’s 1956 poem ‘Diario in tre lingue’, in which the experimental writer - who was born in exile in Paris, moved to the UK after the murder of her anti-fascist activist father, was educated in the US and finally settled in Rome - charts relations between the Italian, the French & the English. This poem laid the groundwork for her singular trilingual poetry, a body of work engaged in the research of tradition, and how tradition is passed on in disjointed manifestations.  

___Tracklist

01     Furtherset - To Live Tenderly Anew 02     Furtherset - The Expanding Drama 03     Furtherset - The Logic of a Secret 04     Furtherset -  A Prelude to Infinite Directions 05     Furtherset - Uncoordinated Delicate Perfection 06     Furtherset - Choirs of Deception and Truth

___Release

Release: December 11, 2020 Format: cassette + digital

___Credits

All tracks written and produced by Tommaso Pandolfi Mixed and mastered by VFBM Drawings by Tommaso Pandolfi Graphic design by Sarah Parsons

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Release Date: October 13, 2023 Format: vinyl LP + digital Order on: Bandcamp / Kudos Stream on Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal

«I feel a deep sense of loss listening to this music, but at the same time the possibility of going beyond it through sound. It doesn’t want to illustrate anything, but I would like it to be transformative, even of a feeling that sounds like death. It is an elegy.» - Furtherset

The Infinite Hour is a shattered elegy synthesized in electronics. Furtherset’s music does not explain, settle or justify, it rather simply manifests the grip of anguish. As a whole, the album’s six compositions resemble the labored breathing of one who mourns a disappearance and fears oblivion. A feeling like having one’s chest weightened by a stone, while still being attentive to one’s breath, and aware of what remains. From this dimension The Infinite Hour arises and transfigures loss into a space that is always extending: the hour is infinite, the melody is circular, and even stasis has its own measure that is exceeded into eternity. The Infinite Hour is one possible manifestation of an ever-changing musical landscape, a universe with unmis- takable sounds but always on the verge of disintegrating, collapsing, and opening up spaces, times, infinities.

___CREDITS Written and produced by Tommaso Pandolfi Mixed by Alberto Ricca (Bienoise) Illustrations by Tommaso Pandolfi Graphic Design by Jahn Koutrios Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer at vfbm Fribourg

Furtherset | Live Electronics | La musica e le esibizioni di Furtherset sono un invito aperto a immergersi in un mondo sonoro di stratificazioni armoniche, modulazioni continue e orchestrazioni sintetiche. Le figure vengono spinte oltre il punto di non ritorno fino a esplodere per poi essere rimodellate in cascate melodiche. Come rappresentante della “Italian New Wave”, Furtherset ha calcato molti dei palchi più prestigiosi d’Italia, ha partecipato alla Red Bull Music Academy 2015 a Parigi e nel marzo 2022 ha pubblicato per l'etichetta svizzera OUS il suo nuovo EP “Auras”: un viaggio emotivo dilatato nel tempo e nello spazio dove elettronica sperimentale e musica classica moderna si fondono dando forma a un'abbondante filigrana sonora.

We are happy to present the 2nd edition of our podcast series that combines excerpts of live recordings from -OUS artists, as well as guests we've been lucky to invite to perform at our shows.

Listen now on Soundcloud.

«-OUS Podcast No.2: Bit-Tuner / Furtherset» combines an excerpt of Bit-Tuner's «Arabian Nights» live performance in Gozo/Malta with Furtherset's extended rework of «Ask Your Existential Core» that was created for UniversoAssisi Festival. 

Bit-Tuner's «Arabian Nights» project is based on field recordings from Cairo, as well as samples from tapes bought at local markets and music produced in Egypt's megacity during a residency. The recording presented here was made at «Dorothea.space» - am art space in Gozo/Malta - at a performance night where -OUS artists performed alongside local artists. A live version of «Arabian Nights» was released on tape and digitally via -OUS.

The 2nd part of the podcast presents an extended rework of Furtherset's track «Ask Your Existential Core», originally released on tape and digitally as part of his EP «To Alter and Affect». This extended version was recorded during a residency in Assisi for the Universo Assisi Festival (curated by Joseph Grima). It was performed at the top of Monte Subasio, which lies at the bottom of Mortaro Grande.

OUS Podcast #2 w/ Bit-Tuner / Furtherset

Part 1: Bit-Tuner — 24:55 Part 2: Furtherset — 19:21

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FACT Magazine premieres the video clip for «Furtherset - The Logic of a Secret». Read the article and watch the video clip here. 

Tommaso Pandolfi aka Furtherset created the video clip using experimental footage of water, adding layer over layer, until the original material is reduced to structure and movement. He notes:

«While translating my compostitional methods into a visual work, I was interested in the tension that originates from the high speed images and the consequential stroboscopic effect, the impermanence of these water-like images on the viewer’s eye, and the repetition of these images, until they lose their singular representation and become structure and movement.» 

FURTHERSET — DRAWINGS OF DESIRE AND HATE — OUS014 — Digital EP

Release: September 14, 2018 Format: digital Buy on Bandcamp.

Voluptuous, Ludicrous, Harmonious

Furtherset picks up the pieces left behind on «Drawings of Desire and Hate» — both the closing track of his previous release and the title of his newest EP. These three playful and light weighted tracks float just off ground. Furtherset balances the forces of nature to take a snapshot of their mere beauty.

Furtherset is the musical project of Tommaso Pandolfi — class of 1995. His music is an open invitation to immerse oneself into a weightless states of mind. Exhaling growth and inhaling decay, his walls of sound are restlessly built from layered and looped harmonies, shifting modulations and sampled voices. The figures are pushed over the tipping point to where they explode and are then reshaped into melodic cascades.

___Tracklist

Furtherset - Studio False Start - 3:50 Furtherset - Spring Training - 4:38 Furtherset - Falling Makes Way For Rising - 3:36

___Release

Release: September 14, 2018 Format: digital EP

___Credits

All tracks written + produced by Tommaso Pandolfi Mixed by Peppe Petrelli Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer Graphic design by Mathias Forbach

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