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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

___Shops

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.»