Murcof releases new single 'Dividing Space' from The Alias Sessions

Murcof releases new single 'Dividing Space'

Listen to Murcof’s ‘Dividing Space’, the second track taken from The Alias Sessions, which lands May 21st. It is accompanied by a video produced by Gleix using footage from the performances by Geneva-based dance company Alias, which served as the genesis for the album. “The title hints at the things that separate us from the world and ourselves,” Fernando Corona explains. “The dividing space in-between is certainly ideological. Someone said that until we realise that half our lungs are hanging out there on the trees we will not be capable of fully experiencing the world.” The Alias Sessions is available to pre-order now on double CD and triple vinyl in a deluxe spot-varnished gatefold sleeve. There are a handful of the super limited blood red vinyl editions left, available exclusively from Norman Records and Bandcamp. A concrete grey vinyl edition of 500 is also available to pre-order from independent record shops worldwide, as well as a standard black vinyl edition. Listen: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp

Watch the video for 'Dividing Space' here

artist: Murcof title: The Alias Sessions label: The Leaf Label formats: Limited edition blood red vinyl 3LP + DL (BAY 121VN) (300 copies) Limited edition concrete grey vinyl 3LP + DL (BAY 121VX) (500 copies) Black vinyl 3LP + DL (BAY 121V) Double CD (BAY 121CD) Digital (BAY 121E) release date: Friday 21 May 2021

Murcof, the primary project of producer Fernando Corona, returns to The Leaf Label for the first time in thirteen years with a mammoth and visionary double album, The Alias Sessions. This collection brings together all the elements incorporated into the project to date - meticulous sound design, ghostly samples, forceful beats, diaphanous atmosphere - but pushes the sound even further in terms of both abstraction and beauty. This is electronic music of exquisite tension and ecstatic release, moving from barely audible details to explosive peaks, much of it delivered by earth-moving bass. The Alias Sessions is the most ambitious and wide-ranging Murcof album to date - less about the individual components of a track and more about the cumulative force of the set as a whole. Corona has composed several film scores and that experience with atmosphere informs these tracks. The record benefits from careful and focused attention, preferably over longer periods - it’s too expressive and dynamic to remain in the background. Corona began work on this music in April 2017, when he met with choreographer Guilherme Botelho, leader of Genevabased dance company Alias, about a new performance piece - ‘Contre-Mondes’. Versions of these compositions make up the first half of the album. Corona continued work with the organisation for a 2018 performance entitled ‘Normal.’ which now forms the second part of the record. “I’m always looking for new unheard sounds,” Corona says. “To create weird associations and contrasts between sounds of a different nature.” The Alias Sessions is the glorious result of this desire put into practice. CD1 LP Contre-Mondes 1. A1. Inner Hunt 2. A2. Dandelion Heart 3. A3. Unboxing Utopia 4. B1. Nocturnal Sunrise 5. B2. Underwater Lament 6. B3. Inevitable Truth 7. C1. Between Thoughts 8. C2. Dropped Soul 9. C3. Shadow Surfing CD2 LP Normal. 1. D1. Surface Wear 2. D2. Ideology Storm 3. D3. Dividing Space 4. E1. Fire Thief 5. E2. Systemic Amnesia 6. F1. Unread Letter 7. F2. Void Glance Socials: murcof.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

On Murcof: “By mixing the beats and glitches of electronic minimalism with the orchestral drama of 20th century classical, he spurred the creation of a new kind of home listening market populated by Marsen Jules, Max Richter, Deaf Centre and Ryuichi Sakamoto in various collaborations” Resident Advisor “Corona seems to hear music differently, allowing him to compose tracks that sound like no one else” Pitchfork “Murcof attains a meditative, monumental grandeur” The Sunday Times “What’s extraordinary about Corona’s Murcof project is that is has cut through the narrow confines and splintered genres of dance, electronica and experimental creative music to find a bigger audience” The Guardian “A singular, near-inestimable talent” NME “Disturbing panoramas of sound that combine the electronic and live instrumentation in a seamless and unique way. Superb, dark ambience that needs to be heard” DJ

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