Murcof - The Etna Sessions

Release date: 8/30/2024 

Limited edition CD housed in A5 full-color gloss Digipak.
Photography by Fernando Corona (Murcof). 
Art direction & design by Rubén A. Tamayo (Fax).

Genre: Minimal Electronica, Modern Classical, Ambient, Drone.

1. Mungibeddu
2. Valle del Bove
3. La Contessa
4. Cuore della Trinacria
5. 6 AM Linguaglossa
6. Vene svuotate
7. Rinascita
8. Monti Sartorius
9. Valanga di ferro
10. Sangu di la Matri

Recorded between 2015 and 2023 in Mount Etna, Sicilia, and Girona, Spain. Originally commissioned by Zo (Centro Culture Contemporanee), Catania, in 2015 as an audiovisual work titled Etna, A Portrait, under the artistic name Life Observing Life together with videographer Manu Ros.

Composed, mixed and mastered by Fernando Corona.


Fernando Corona aka Murcof arrives at Facade Electronics with The Etna Sessions. This new collaborative work emerges from the audiovisual project Etna, a Portrait that was commissioned in 2015 by ZO (Centro Culture Contemporanee) in Catania, Sicily. The work was made in conjunction with the visual artist Manu Ros, under the alias 'Life Observing Life'. The project premiered at the Castelo Ursino in Catania in July 2015 as part of the i-Art festival programme. For The Etna Sessions, the music was revisited and updated for just audio format, without the support of the imagery as originally conceived. This soundtrack contains field recordings made by the duo in situ in the Parco del Etna for a period of ten days, then processed and complemented with an array of analog and digital tools. The rest of the music is complemented by the use of modular synthesizers that expand this monumental work that wanders between drone, ambient, vaporous dub and minimalist techno.