INTIMATE IMMENSITY

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August Gwar The boldest + most mature release to date. And sadly, this means *ever*. A swan song, indeed. Love, a listener.

Twistedsoul A fittingly experimental and adventurous final album from TOMAGA. Hat doffed to all the brilliant music Tom Relleen has blessed us with! Favorite track: INTIMATE IMMENSITY.

loosesounds Mysteriously sad and hauntingly beautiful. Favorite track: VERY NEVER ( MY MIND EXTENDS) Feat. Cathy Lucas.

Eric K Tomaga's final album is both ecstatic and heartbreaking, both lead heavy and gossamer light. I have been listening to it at least once each day since its full release, and it is that rare work where time is swallowed up, disappears. I both am listening intently and not conscious of having listened at all. And when the last track, the title track, comes on my heart leaps and then it all disappears and dissipates. A truly living form. In all ways, like life. TR's beautiful legacy. Favorite track: INTIMATE IMMENSITY.

Jeremy Clarke The two pre-order tracks are incredibly beautiful - and poignant, considering co-composer and bass player Tom Relleen died tragically last Summer. RIP Tom. Thinking of you, Valentina.

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1.	IDIOMA 04:13	info	buy track
2.	MOMPFIE HAS TO PAY 04:23	info	buy track
3.	THE SNAKE 03:45	info	buy track
4.	VERY NEVER ( MY MIND EXTENDS) Feat. Cathy Lucas 04:55	lyrics	buy track
Cathy Lucas
5.	MORE FLOWERS 04:55	info	buy track
6.	THE KING OF NAPLES 05:15	info	buy track
7.	NON SIA MAI 04:51	info	buy track
8.	BRITISH WILDLIFE 04:21	info	buy track
9.	REVERIE FOR FRAGILE HOUSEPLANTS 04:29	info	buy track
10.	INTIMATE IMMENSITY 04:44	info	buy track

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The last, outstanding release of the London based experimental duo (Tom Relleen and Valentina Magaletti), accomplished just before Tom’s passing in August 2020, is the distillate of two years of new creative enhancement.

Mostly recorded at Tom’s “Bunker” – as he called his house in London – during the days off from live performances and challenging collaborations throughout the world, Intimate Immensity collects ten intense tracks that outline a breath-taking epiphanic journey revisiting the multifaceted worlds explored by the band in seven years of non-stop and mostly live activity.

The wonderful blue artwork especially created by the acclaimed artists Icinori is a perfect match with the gist of Tomaga’s aesthetics of intimacy that is well expressed by a few lines in the gatefold:

“I just found an interesting book by Gaston Bachelard called The Poetics of Space, with chapters on ‘house as universe’, nests, shells, ‘intimate immensity’, ‘the phenomenology of roundness’... I think it ties in with our feelings about bunkers and the urge to partition the universe to create our own spaces, vs cleansing or colonising the everyday to make it empty of anyone else's taste. I think Tomaga tracks with their individual micro worlds are a bit like that…" – in this way Relleen introduces us into Tomaga’s pulsing universe where space and meaning, articulated by sound, acquire breath and character as an expressive place where you can feel at home.

It is a quite similar aesthetics that could be perceived through Derek Jarman’s quotation from Blue (1993) used in the video of Intimate Immensity realised by Noriko Okaku together with some of Tom’s favourite stones collected from different places throughout his life.

Blue protects white from innocence
Blue drags black with it
Blue is darkness made visible
Blue protects white from innocence
Blue drags black with it
Blue is darkness made visible.

The dialogical richness of musical influences, that has always been a peculiarity of all Tomaga’s performances, finds its peak here. The sonic spectrum is really wide, ranging from modern composers such as Laurie Spiegel and Pauline Anna Strom who has recently passed away, to the British refined dance aesthetics of Muslimgauze and Ossia.

The somewhat deceitful approachability of the ten tracks, their crystal clear and elegant surface, is in fact the outcome of the deep process of transformation that has personally and musically involved the duo during the last two years.

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released March 26, 2021

ALL TRACKS WRITTEN,PERFORMED AND PRODUCED IN LONDON BY TOM RELLEEN AND VALENTINA MAGALETTI, EXCEPT VERY NEVER ( MY MIND EXTENDS) WRITTEN BY TOM RELLEEN ,VALENTINA MAGALETTI AND CATHY LUCAS
VOCALS ON VERY NEVER BY CATHY LUCAS
VOCALS ON BRITISH WILDLIFE BY MARTIN TOMLINSON
STRINGS ON INTIMATE IMMENSITY BY AGATHE MAX
MIXING BY MARTA SALOGNI AT STUDIO ZONA, LONDON.
MASTERING BY SARAH REGISTER,NEW YORK CITY.
ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK AND LAYOUT BY ICINORI.
HANDS IN THE DARK 2021

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