Fellow Italian sound artist Salvatore Borreli (a.k.a. ETRE) joins frequent collaborators Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi on this exquisite electro-acoustic composition that is divided into three Acts. Although each Act clocks-in at precisely sixteen minutes and sixteen seconds, this trio manage to weave together a vast array of sounds, with no less than six distinct passages, within each of these Acts. Ambient tones give way to eerie repeating piano or acoustic guitar lines; ocean-side field recordings segue to fly-on-the-wall conversational din; high frequency fizzle leads to wind-swept sonics; muffled clanks of glasses set to distant sounds of trains.

Borreli’s liner notes provide some important context clues as to the general state of flux that “So Far” is in. He writes:

Every recording says to us what we were in another history of our
existence. Every recording in this work is a persistent plug of my presence inside living; I don’t remember everything but what is recorded has been recorded in my heart before. Music reopens those closed spaces, bringing me down.

I remember: Centre of Athens, Some lovers, Different roads, Many flames, 100 or 200 trains, My childhood, The sun before the black, “Infinite Jest” and some letters, Doors closed behind of me and sometimes in front of me, Nights and their nicotine addiction, 100.0000 thoughts,

In less capable hands, a conceptual framework such as this could lead to a jumbled mess of fragmentary sounds. But there is a fluidity to which these sounds unfold, with recurring and subtly altered field recordings, found sounds, and instrumental motifs establishing a sense of time, place, and a general storyline. These gentlemen clearly set out to create, and have achieved rather convincingly, a complex, yet altogether dream-like audio narrative. 8/10 -- David Perron / Foxy Digitalis