Murcof – Remembranza

Will Yates: Around the same time I was introduced to Susumu Yokota, I was also introduced to Murcof (both of whom were releasing music via the Leaf Label, based in Leeds UK) – I first heard »Remembranza« on BBC Radio 3’s »Late Junction«, probably around 2005/6 (so I would have been 15/16) and it made a massive impression on me. In my teens, I was quite into heavy rock music (doom metal/grunge/sludgy stoner stuff…) and had always been into dark/horror-based stuff… I was suddenly listening to a record that had all that heaviness and darkness but was much nicer to listen too! hah. I’d always leaned towards dark tones, and this takes that darkness and pushes it into the bowels of the earth. It was the Resident Evil (PS1) soundtrack that I’d always wished for. Was a big influence on my early memotone material for sure.