TU M' - Monochromes Vol. 3

The partnership between Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli took shape at the dawn of the new millennium under the moniker Tu M’, a tribute to Marcel Duchamp’s painting of the same name: a title that translates as a verbless “tu… me” (“you… me”), leaving it to the observer to complete the meaning. In the music of Tu M’, that same responsibility falls on the listener. Born from the intention of forging a connection between ambient, glitch and drone, the duo distills a concept traced in faint outlines: an elsewhere never pinned down, a blurred becoming. It’s also a video-installation and photography project, whose reductionist-aesthetic material can be found on their website.

The third volume of “Monochromes” arrives sixteen years after the series’ progenitor, released posthumously: the duo had officially split in 2012, and since then their output had dissolved into the underground web network that had nurtured them. Like a Celer on the ocean floor, the record explores the cosmos through droning caresses and crepuscular ripples, a sort of Stars Of The Lid turned minimalist computer music, stripped of any material anchor. “Vol. 3” carries on the enchantment of its predecessors with nine unreleased tracks. What speaks is the breath of synthetic waves, like a Brian Eno stretched out between two worlds, in a stillness that dissolves the self into the eternal.

The work collects live recordings made for an A/V installation in Città Sant'Angelo in the summer of 2008: armed with two laptops, two mixers, two speakers and a video projector, they offer a study in fragility, where audio-video fades and sonic suspensions act as the pivot for endless loops. The ambient theorem finds a parallel in the Buddhist notion of a drop in the ocean, a harmonic dilution of identity in which the individual dematerializes into a broader breath. Echoes of the best William Basinski surface, and Tu M’, without ever raising their voice, seal the strength of a discographic triptych that revolves solely around its own breath.

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01/05/2025