aurally and artistically significant sonic art
Reviewer: Michael Andrew Doherty
The duo Tu m', with assistance from the Magical Mystery Orchestra, has created a work of aural significance that bridges classical minimalism with contemporary gitch and digital minimalism; reaching into new areas of sonic art, and upholding and expanding their reign as one of the most important composers and instrumentalists (digital or not) in today's living music world. Steven Riech meets Tetsu Inoue. Do not miss out on this important recording of Tu m's compositions, performed by the Orchestra, and manipulated and shaped thereafter by these ground-breaking artists.

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Tu m' - Italian duo Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli - have an uncanny ability to sculpt abandoned melodies into new and distinctive shapes, whilst retaining the shimmering qualities of the originals. Like goldsmiths re-working discarded jewellery, they hammer and polish, painstakingly re-working - in the process creating diamond-like musical gems. 'Tu m' and the Magical Mystery Orchestra' elevates their sonic palette considerably, its idiosyncratic melodies insinuating themselves into your consciousness effortlessly. The lush truncated strings of 'Glamour' captivate from the moment it stutters into sparkling life, slowly building to a gently incandescent audio glow. 'Before the Rain' continues in similar fashion, a hesitant melody cycling - soft caresses of delicate melody. Their recent releases have been likened to Fennesz's much acclaimed 'Endless Summer' and its easy to see the comparison, but Tu m' are slowly, but surely carving out their own distinctive voice. 'Tu m' and the Magical Mystery Orchestra' demonstrates musical craftsmanship of a kind all too often lacking in contemporary music, but truly deserving of recognition.

 
Reviewer: The Wire
THE WIRE (December 2003) On their latest album, the prolific Italian duo of Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli cut and layer shimmering loops of their own 'secret orchestra', the music's textural sensuality and panoramic expansiveness setting it apart from the sterility of most post-Oval glitch output. Sounding entranced by the ghosts, shadows and refractions throw up by their laptops, Tu m' fashion a variety of shifting soundscapes over the album's 64 minutes, from the Steve Reichian "Glamour" to the flaking, crumbling pianos of "Bye". Despite the extremity of the duo's processes, the lush sonorities of the 'orchestra' shine through like rays of sunlight reflected in mirror shards.