The Berlin sessions were later reworked in Mogard’s Rome studio, where the Italian composer subjected the recordings to a process of expansion and erosion: fragments isolated, durations stretched, tempos dissolved. In his New York studio, Irisarri introduced additional layers of dense, textured drone. Cellist Martina Bertoni and violinist/vocalist Andrea Burelli contributed performances to the album that soften the divide between acoustic and electronic realms. The result is less a document of performance than a reconstruction shaped by time and process.
Visually, the album continues a thread established in the duo’s first release, Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close, with artwork by Marja de Sanctis revisiting the same sculptural vessel. Where the earlier version appeared as raw clay, the new iteration is fired and glazed, reflecting light outward to express a shift the artist frames as both continuity and transformation, mirroring the expanded collaborative framework.
Mogard and Irisarri’s work has often been characterised by a tension between restraint and magnitude, and that balance appears to deepen here, with Irisarri reflecting on the sessions as a moment where individual control receded: the music, he suggests, began to behave like an autonomous system. The album marks a refinement from fragile interplay toward something more permanent, diffuse and ultimately collective.
Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun is out June 26, 2026 on BioVinyl via Black Knoll Editions with preorder open from April 7.
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Photograph by Alessio Pizzicannella