Since the release of "Martes," Murcof's debut album, Fernando Corona has progressed into film soundtracks, recently finishing work for the producers of one of the biggest Mexican films of all time, Amores Perros. He has been commissioned to remix both Kronos Quartet and Miles Davis; will continue to tour extensively in Europe, Japan and North America; and has been nominated for the prestigious Ars Electronica award. Features remixes Cecile Schott, Ollie Brown & Sam Britton, Jan Jelinek, Seth Horvitz, Jan J...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Fernando Corona's long-awaited third album as Murcof marks a dramatic departure from previous works. Truly monumental in scale, Cosmos is composed almost entirely of recordings of classical instruments, a process which Corona describes as expanding the possibilities of acoustic instruments through electronics. It's a move away from the micro-programmed sound he helped to pioneer, and his seamless integration of these apparently opposed forms is almost unprecedented. These new recordings we...   [ read more ]

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Fernando Corona had a stated purpose for his debut album as Murcof: Take contemporary composition and introduce it to the world of minimalist Mexican techno. Originally released only in Mexico in late 2001, Martes didn't see broader distribution until the middle of 2002, when the Leaf label saw fit to reissue the record in North America and Europe. The album was quite a departure for Corona, already widely known in Mexico as Terrestre, whose decidedly funkier fusion of traditional {...   [ read more ]

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