Murcof

This guy does a lot of amazing work. Who else listens to his music? I have Martes on CD and Cosmos on vinyl.

Anyone loves Murcof :)I seem to listen to his music during melancholic phases... You DEFINITELY need Utopia, Remembranza and Cosmos. BTW have a look at the first letters of his albums and the track titles.

I love the Murcof tracks (the U-ones) on Utopia, especially Urano and Una.

Versailles Sessions are a more difficult case. I love the track where he used lyrics from the Purcell semi opera "Dido and Aeneas"...

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:18 AM, Capsaicin said:

This guy does a lot of amazing work. Who else listens to his music? I have Martes on CD and Cosmos on vinyl.

Yeah I love Murcof, I think I have all of his stuff on vinyl except Martes. I think Ulysses is my favourite at this point but I still need to have a few more listens to The Versailles Sessions, I remember it being quite dark and very enjoyable.

Everyone seems to like Martes, but that one feels a bit cold to me (maybe that's the point?). I like Remembranza the best of anything he's done so far. The Utopia remixes are really good too.

Recuerdos is a massive track. One of my favorites by him.

I'm going to listen to Cosmos more, and download a copy of utopia

Remembranza is definitely the most solid album. I love Utopia as well but some of the remixes on the album are absolutely awful. Cosmos took me a while to appreciate because I was just hoping it to be a darker version of some of Corona's stuff on Utopia, but when I finally heard it under the right circumstances I knew that it was another brilliant album.

The Versailles Sessions fucking SUCKS though. I've always hated the baroque era so I'm probably not the right one to judge that album.

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:06 PM, Squee said:

The Versailles Sessions fucking SUCKS though. I've always hated the baroque era so I'm probably not the right one to judge that album.

I agree, I'm pretty open to just about any type of classical music, but I could hardly even get through the samples I listened to on Boomkat!

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:33 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

I agree, I'm pretty open to just about any type of classical music, but I could hardly even get through the samples I listened to on Boomkat!

I typically listen to late romantic symphonies and tone poems. Which are typically without human voice.

BUT.

Purcells Dido and Aeneas brought me to appreciate vocals more and more. Someone on good-music-guide.com (a bigger classical forum) suggested it as an entry to the human voice. Its perfect. Listen to (best known part!) Didos Lament:

Or "Ah Belinda" (this is used in the Versailles Sessions)... and as a side note, this is the best you can get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUYtL-M_Go

If you cannot love Didos Lament, you're lost ;)

As for Utopia, I didn't listen to the Remixes very often. I wanted pure Murcof.

Any Urano admirers here? It's climax is to me the 7:30 mark (and a bit before), when this lamento-like instrument clocks in... Oh yeah. Dark.

Yep - I love Urano. I had somehow not noticed this track for at least a couple of years and then one day as I'm waiting for the bus Urano starts playing in my headphones and I'm completely blown away when it gets all distorted during the climax.

I picked up Remembranza on a whim from the description the shop wrote on the label, and worth it it was. Then I got Cosmos and was blown away, the two title tracks are some of the best things I've ever heard. Looking forward to the new one - Oceana? - very much. I also like his way of titling songs and albums (the M - U - R - C - O - F thing is obvious, yes?)

  On 4/9/2010 at 11:27 PM, purlieu said:

I also like his way of titling songs and albums (the M - U - R - C - O - F thing is obvious, yes?)

as i said before in that other murcof thread that nobody seems to notice anymore even tho it's still on the first page of threads:

I hope before he finishes the F album he will change his name to Murcofauwidzlynktshx

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:18 AM, Capsaicin said:

Who else listens to his music?

Me

  On 4/9/2010 at 2:33 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

Everyone seems to like Martes, but that one feels a bit cold to me (maybe that's the point?).

Martes made most sense to me when I was listening to it on the train around Madrid, this kind of area, much like the cover

Couldn't say it's his best but I listen to it the most. Mo, Mir ... Unison (different but it's kind of my fav), all awesome.

Mo is incredible

Utopia has no final "R" track btw...

On Martes I loved Mao most, it's very much on the glitchy clicky breaky side-...

  On 4/10/2010 at 10:12 AM, Wurstwasser said:

On Martes I loved Mao most

Who?

  On 4/10/2010 at 3:46 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 4/10/2010 at 10:12 AM, Wurstwasser said:

On Martes I loved Mao most

 

Who?

Track 5 of http://www.discogs.com/Murcof-Martes/release/196894

anyone seen the "naked" DVD by him and the live DVD?

  On 4/10/2010 at 4:32 PM, o00o said:

anyone seen the "naked" DVD by him and the live DVD?

no!

pray, explain!

  On 4/10/2010 at 5:00 PM, Ultravisitor said:

  On 4/10/2010 at 4:32 PM, o00o said:

anyone seen the "naked" DVD by him and the live DVD?

no!

 

pray, explain!

naked is a ballet dancer performance to his music with some kind of story and the other is him playing live

I never heard of this guy until this thread.

He sounds cool, but everything he does kinda sounds the same, dark & ambient.

I'll have to get an entire album before i can really say if I care much for him though.

So far I like what I'm hearing, it just seems so far all I'm hearing kinda sounds the same,

I could be wrong...

  On 4/10/2010 at 8:23 PM, PWSTEAL said:

I never heard of this guy until this thread.

He sounds cool, but everything he does kinda sounds the same, dark & ambient.

I'll have to get an entire album before i can really say if I care much for him though.

So far I like what I'm hearing, it just seems so far all I'm hearing kinda sounds the same,

I could be wrong...

yeah all he does is dark atmospherical classical music

sometimes with minimal beats sometimes more sound track like

but he is really awesome and intense

  On 4/10/2010 at 8:23 PM, PWSTEAL said:

He sounds cool, but everything he does kinda sounds the same, dark & ambient.

I'll have to get an entire album before i can really say if I care much for him though.

So far I like what I'm hearing, it just seems so far all I'm hearing kinda sounds the same,

I could be wrong...

There's a lot truth in it, I was thinking about this yesterday. If you leave out Versailles, his repertoire is not as wide as, say, Ae... Martes was a bit more glichy, but basically there's not much progress from Utopia to Cosmos. "Consistent" is a more positive term. But it's all good If you're in the mood, he's just perfect.

oOOOo, no, haven't even heard of that DVD.

The stuff he does its high quality so I don't want him to change that for the sake of change

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:06 PM, Squee said:

. Cosmos took me a while to appreciate because I was just hoping it to be a darker version of some of Corona's stuff on Utopia, but when I finally heard it under the right circumstances I knew that it was another brilliant album.

 

did you hear it in a planetarium or what?

  On 4/11/2010 at 3:43 PM, azatoth said:

  On 4/9/2010 at 6:06 PM, Squee said:

. Cosmos took me a while to appreciate because I was just hoping it to be a darker version of some of Corona's stuff on Utopia, but when I finally heard it under the right circumstances I knew that it was another brilliant album.

 

 

did you hear it in a planetarium or what?

Actually, yes. Murcof played "live" in the Planetarium in Berlin. It was sick!

But I also listened to it one night when I was at the harbour and there was a full moon. It was one hell of an experience!