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Beat Rüegsegger - b
Philipp Schlotter - rhodes
Maro Widmer - tb

Going Home - Neviathan

FURTHERSET - THE INFINITE HOUR
Cat #: OUS043
Release date: October 13, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«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 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. Each track, composed with its live rendition in mind, manifests itself to the listener as a possible variant of a path that is never definitive. Their live performance, an increasingly distinctive moment within Furtherset’s work, is a gesture of concentration and extension, where every composition is developed through meticulous variations of each singularity.

'The Infinite Hour' is one possible manifestation of an ever-changing musical landscape, a universe with unmistakable sounds but always on the verge of disintegrating, collapsing, and opening up spaces, times, infinities.

BIO
Furtherset is the musical project of artist and musician Tommaso Pandolfi (1995). His compositions’ distinctive traits are stratifications and recursive shifting modulations, synthetic clusters and sampling, alongside rhythmic and embracing harmonies. The project 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.

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

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The Infinite Hour

Circulata Melodia

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sound of the installation "Die Nacht schweigt still".

-developed in cooperation with Bastian Lehner.
--transferred from a found footage tape, reversed and edited.

Die Nacht schweigt still - Audiospur

self-recorded audio cassettes and a meditation exercise were mixed live over 3 walkmans and a 4-track recorder.

DeepMeditation@Sender#3

DeepMeditation@Sender#3 / W*F / 14.10.2023

This was recorded on the 2nd of August 2014 in Ngqoko Village, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Ngqoko Song

07 Left Alone

Jón Leifs

sonogram

w o r k      i n     p r o g r e s s
'grinder' - composition by Zooey Agro (2016)
Kaleidoscope String Quartet >>>>> http://ksq.ch/
recorded by Billy Utermann on October 28, 2016

grinder - played by Kaleidoscope String Quartet

XVIIII LE SOLEIL

This recording is a stereo mixdown of a surround live set played at White Cube Festival, Dampfzentrale Bern, 21. 02. 2019.

Die Nacht schweigt still - Audiospur

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