Murcof teams with Erik Truffaz for new album

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  • With artwork from Enki Bilal playing a key role, Being Human Being will see release in November.
  • Murcof teams with Erik Truffaz for new album image
  • Details of a new collaborative album from Erik Truffaz and Murcof, Being Human Being, have been revealed. Truffaz, a Swiss-born jazz trumpeter, and Murcof, a Mexican producer of classically-tinged IDM, techno and ambient, first started performing live together in 2006, and in 2008 they released an album called Mexico. This one, coming next month through Mundo Recordings, is actually a three-headed project: Enki Bilal, the well-regarded French comics artist and filmmaker whose work is often focused on themes of war and dystopia, has taken care of the album's visual art. Being Human Being looks to be a heavy listen. Here's a few lines from the lengthy text that came with the press release: "[The album] suggests to us that being human and being a human being are not necessarily the same thing, but that human be-ing, with its delicate balance of sensuousness, violence, ethical sensitivity, ugliness and grace, is still being sketched out." It'll come on double vinyl, CD and digital formats. This will be the third release on Mundo Recordings, which launched earlier in 2014 and has so far put out an EP and album from veteran US producer Stewart Walker. On the Murcof front, news of the upcoming collaborative album comes shortly after this announcement from The Leaf Label, home to his highly sought-after solo studio LPs. The label will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year with some vinyl reissues, and fans can offer input, via a poll, on which records (from Murcof and the likes of Caribou and Roll The Dice) they think should get the treatment. Tracklist A1 Origin Of The World A2 Warhol B1 Hybridation B2 Chaos B3 And Nina B4 The Eye C1 Human Being D1 Skin D2 Infinite Abstract Mundo Recordings will release Being Human Being on November 21st, 2014.
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