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. 
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releases December 11, 2020

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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03 Furtherset - The Logic Of A Secret [To Live Tenderly Anew (-OUS, 2020]

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Furtherset is the musical project of Venice-based composer and visual artist Tommaso Pandolfi (b. 1995). His compositions’ distinctive traits are melodic loops, synthetic clusters and rarefied ambiences. The project follows a path towards saturation and layering, yet always manages to create voids where listeners can find their place and fill them according to their own focus.
Active since 2011, he has released the EPs “Auras” (2022), “To Alter and Affect” (2018) and “Drawings of Desire and Hate” (2018), as well as the albums “To Live Tenderly Anew” (2020) and “The Infinite Hour” (2023) on the Swiss label -OUS. The 2025 album "Wounds of Melody" marks his debut on Kohlhaas.
His music has been presented at festivals and institutions such as Club To Club, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Triennale Milano, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Istituto Svizzero, MACRO.
He has curated sound or live soundtracks for films and videos by Benedetta Fioravanti, Pedro Maia, Artavazd Pelešjan.