Murcof - Cosmos

  by Daniel Cressey

published: 28 / 10 / 2007

Label: Leaf Label
Format: CD

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Sometimes disturbing, but thoroughly compelling third album from Murcof, the project of Mexican musician Fernando Corona, who using purely classical instruments creates atmospheric minimalism on an immense scale

Fernando Corona has eschewed the electronic production that his previous work has been based on for this, his third release as Murcof. Not that you would necessarily know it. Despite his use of purely classical instruments 'Cosmos' continues his atmospheric minimalism. At times it verges on disturbing; the noises he gets these instruments to produce can seem to cut at your hearing before dropping back into Corona’s haunting melodies. Although only six tracks long this album feels huge. This is, in a slightly contradictory fashion, minimalism on an immense scale; the soundscapes may consist of simple elements but as they evolve this becomes truly involving, if at times slightly too intense. 'Cosmos' is not an easy listen. Neither is it something you can dip in and out of. The attention it demands if you are to actually appreciate it is substantial. If you put in the effort this is, however, a beautiful piece of work, not an album in the traditional sense but more of an example of sound as art, however pretentious that sounds. Murcof could be compared to artists, in the broadest sense of the word, ranging from Philip Glass to Sunn O))). In reality however he is somewhat out on his own.

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