Murcof The Alias Sessions

Murcof's visionary The Alias Sessions brings together all the elements we've come to expect from Fernando Corona - meticulous sound design, ghostly samples, forceful beats, diaphanous atmosphere - but pushes the sound even further in terms of both abstraction and beauty. The Alias Sessions is the most ambitious and wide-ranging Murcof album to date. Corona began work on this music in April 2017, when he met with choreographer Guilherme Botelho, leader of Geneva-based 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 organization 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.