TU M' NEWS | BIOGRAPHY | BIBLIOGRAPHY | EXHIBITIONS/LIVE | DOWNLOAD | SHOP | CONTACT SOUND WORKS | VISUAL WORKS projects: | MONOCHROMES | TABULATURA | MMO | STENO | TU M'P3 | MR.MUTT 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 FEBRUARY, 25 New review for "MONOCHROMES VOL.1" on Neural: "Released under the moniker Tu M' (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the prestigious Line label. Since 2000, Line has been curated and directed by Richard Chartier, a sound/installation artist and graphic designer among the greatest names in the microsound scene. The environmental structures are very effective and reverberate in a very dilated and modular way, in delicate and atmospheric disturbances, converging in vivid laptop articulations, synergic in their poetic iterations and audio-video confluences. The scores of the four different "monochromes" are organized in the manner of hypnotic digital sketches, though it is the continuum that stands out from the overall structure, vibrating with airy loop-based montages. The textures are only apparently static, but are in fact rich in layers and resonances, perhaps stemming from a crystalline desire for synthesis, of a newfound lightness or a state of grace, unintelligible in their deep orchestral resonances, but definitely evocative and rich in multidisciplinary suggestions." (Aurelio Cianciotta) FEBRUARY, 9 Now available the new - TU M' SHOP - with high quality Audio Downloads, Video Downloads and CDs. Soon: Catalogues and Prints. JANUARY, 25 New review for "MONOCHROMES VOL.1" on The Milk Factory: "Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli have been at the helm of the multimedia project Tu M’ for over twelve years now, experimenting with music, video and photography for works going from records, released on labels as diverse as Phthalo, Headz, Fällt, Bip-Hop, Dekoder or ERS, to installations in museums and galleries around the world. One of such projects is Monochromes, which the pair describe as ‘a collection of modular audio and video compositions for two laptops, two mixing boards, two loudspeakers, one video projector, one room’, with the performance revolving around sound and light reverberating across a room. Monochromes Vol. 1, which collects four of the nine compositions documented on the band’s website, focuses solely on the sonic dimension of the project, and offers no real clue as to what the accompanying visuals are, apart for the washed out blue image of the cover, taken from a still of one of the accompanying videos. Yet, the resolutely eerie aspect of the picture, showing the vague outlines of what appear to be a landscape in the distance, resonates through the slow build up of soundscapes that characterises the four tracks collected here. Shrouded in dense clouds of reverbs, from which vague contours of looped melodies occasionally rise, it is impossible to identify with certainty any of the components used by Tu M’. Occasionally, one could be forgiven for hearing a distant orchestra, a lone organ or a heavily processed wall of guitars, but the composition of the sonic fabric of these pieces is a close guarded secret. What matters here is not so much the content of these as the atmospheric context resulting of the process applied. While Monochrome # 01, #02 and # 03 rely on fairly clear melodic themes, which, developed over their respective course, slowly build up layers to show increased relief, the thirty minute epic Monochrome # 04, with its long overlapping drones, is totally devoid of any recognisable musical feature, and instead accentuates greatly on the purely textural aspect of the work. Recorded live over the course of two different performances, Monochromes Vol. 1 is a fascinating journey through particularly dense and enigmatic soundscapes. With the visual side of the project removed, it is difficult to evaluate it in full, yet the four compositions presented here actually work particularly well as stand-alone ambient pieces. 4.2/5" (The Milk Man) JANUARY, 13 The TU M's composition "Strange Sleep" from the album "Just One Night " (Dekorder, 2005) was inserted in the compilation "14 Tracks: Psychedelic Wanderlust" by Boomkat. JANUARY, 11 New review for "MONOCHROMES VOL.1" on Fail: "It was on their 2004 release for the Irish-label Fallt, the curiously titled 'Pop Involved [Ver 3.0]' that I discovered the joyous works of Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli aka Tu M' (named after the painting by Marcel Duchamp, but you knew that). Occupying the same sonic space as William Basinski; this is intense, processed work that possesses an off-world beauty. Controlled use of decay and difussion results in four tracks of contemporary ambient music; from slow burn drone pieces to ghostly orchestration and looped guitar. An overwhelmingly emotional experience." (Sheikh Ahmed) JANUARY, 9 New review for "MONOCHROMES VOL.1" on The Silent Ballet: "Jean Cocteau once wrote that "a musician [always has] too many notes on his keyboard." Tu M’ will likely never be accused of having such a problem. Ambient music must always allow for introspection, but few albums have carried this goal further than Monochromes Vol. 1, which almost legitimately sounds like music from the womb. The duo has been plying its trade for almost a decade now, but with its first release for Richard Chartier's Line label, it appears to be seeing the fruition of its hard work and is well on the way to hitting a comfortable mid-career stride. As an audio/visual project, the album is somewhat incomplete without its film accompaniment, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t still incredibly satisfying on its own. This is one of the slowest and most majestic albums of the year." (Tom Butcher) JANUARY, 8 The British magazine The Wire voted the album "MONOCHROMES VOL.1" among the 15 best releases of 2009 in the area of electronic music. It was also voted in various "Best of 2009" lists: - Boomkat, Top 100 albums of 2009, Position #40 - Battiti, RAI Radio3 + BlowUp, Playlist 2009, by Nicola Catalano - Headphone Commute, Best of 2009 - The Silent Ballet, The top 50 releases of 2009, Position #33 - Earlabs, 10 best albums in 2009, Position #3, by Sietse van Erve - Igloo Magazine, Ambient top 10, by Alan Lockett Thank You! HOME