“Tremula Luce” is Tommaso Pandolfi's debut album under his own name, out on Window Seat. The Venice-based composer and visual artist follows fifteen years of activity as Furtherset with a new record inspired by the last pages of María Zambrano's “Claros del bosque” and her metaphysical, intimate visions of skies. Unfolding as both a continuation and a rearticulation of his sonic language, circling melodies and time-suspending ambiences here take shape anew.

The album opens as a vast, melancholic, synthetic litany shot through with a heavily processed voice and a reversed guitar tracing distant counterpoints against a telluric orchestral expanse. A miniature MIDI fragment from Mahler's Fifth surfaces in the title track, slowly shimmering in a tender yet monumental orchestration. Processed and reversed pianos and strings, trembling synths and ghostly swirls of sounds form the timbral architecture of the record. Throughout it, melodies repeat until they dissolve into their own stretched shadows; descending sirens echo in a spectral tension; soon to be familiar elements gather and evaporate, only to reappear alchemized. The album's ending approaches through explosions of sounds and cloudlike pauses, embracing the listener in all the emotional weight of the album — a mesmerizing ballad of acoustic and synthetic reverberating vortexes devouring each other.

"This music is an effort to crystallize, anew, ineffable emotional states in perpetual turmoil. Mediated with my recent forays in scoring for moving images and performances, what has shifted over these years is an attention towards more complex and mesmerizing structural dynamics, and the blurring of synthetic and acoustic sounds into something unresolvable. The fragile star on the cover is meant to be a guide through this constellation of intensities I'm tracing." — Tommaso Pandolfi