CLOT MIX Furtherset The Clouds & The Lightning

CLOT Magazine

The last instalment of the year arrives from the hands of Furtherset, the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi, with a mix especially suited for the melancholic nights of December. With Furtherset, the artist has defined his personal sound, mainly composed of layers of timbre-modulated sounds and dense rhythmic geometric passages converging towards a single harmonic plane. His music touches on ambient, modern classical and rave, building on his approach to composition with shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. Furthersetmentions that the project, which began in 2011, is envisaged as formal research that follows a path towards saturation and layering but is always capable of generating voids in which the listener can take their place and fill them according to their own focus. Furtherset has released several EPs and two albums with the record label OUS, with whom he’s signed with. His most recent one, The Infinite Hour, released in October, puts together all the artist's compositional interests over the years. Six compositions resemble the laboured breathing of one who mourns a disappearance and fears oblivion. The album was created between 2020 and 2022, in a slow process of writing and continuous refinement parallel to the previous EP, Auras. The compositions found their final form during the mixing process carried out together with Bienoise. They were later named based on references to authors who influenced and are dear to Furtherset: Amelia Rosselli, Vladimir Chlebnikov, Hubert Damisch, Dante Alighieri. Furtherset mentions that when preparing mixes, he tries to create listening environments with moments of extreme stillness or sudden changes, but always having the latter have their own general organicity: I also fixate on certain artists, such as Simon Fisher Turner, whom I now propose in every mix. In this case, I added Michèle Bokanowski to my fixations. I found pleasant similarities between Moritz Von Oswald's latest work and Ligeti's. Everything then begins and ends with two voices: with Patti Smith's words and Glenn Gould's whispers over Bach. I look for emotion in the music I listen to. Tracklist: Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - The Coral Sea, pt. 1 Kevin Shields & Brian Eno - Only Once Away My Son Michèle Bokanowski - Tabou Moritz Von Oswald - Luminoso György Ligeti - Clocks & Clouds Michèle Bokanowski - Vers Syracuse Michèle Bokanowski - L’indomptable Marta De Pascalis - Harmonices Infinity Brunhild Ferrari & Jim O’Rourke - Tranquille Impatiences Michèle Bokanowski - Pour Un Pianiste Francis Dhomont - Chambre d’enfants Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Omae Wa Nan No Hana Simon Fisher Turner - The Invisible Frame, a film by Cynthia Beatt Lucy Railton - Rib Cage Jules Reidy - Trances III Ben Vida, Nina Dante & Yarn Wire - Who’s Haunting Who Here Luc Ferrari - Cycle Des Souvenirs II Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974- II. Adagio (Glenn Gould)