By Carla Vera
The Ecuadorian group Morpheus It's a band that experiments. That explores new musical territories. He gets lost in them and rediscovers himself through new compositions. The band went from acoustic with folk features on their first album Morpheus and the Mystery of the Union to rock and roll in his EP Morpheus. Now they're back, recharged, electronic and visceral in RA, an album that is a sonic journey full of emotions adorned with synthesizers and melodic spirals. The topic Further It's the first single from the album. “You gave birth to time when you kept asking me for more and more” says one of the verses. The video It was produced in Germany by Teleskop Music Produktion.
The album was recorded over a year and a half in Hermit Records (Guayaquil) amidst jams and improvisations. The band wanted to change Morfeo's beginnings, in which Carlos Bohorquez, the band's founder, composed and wrote the lyrics. In Ra, The dynamic was composing together, a much closer band relationship.
The album consists of nine songs in which the sound shifted towards electronic. “It’s like the negative of the first record – says Carlos Bohorquez –. This one is equally sentimental, but it tends towards darkness.”. Love, heartbreak, misunderstandings, and breakups are the feelings found within it. It also touches on depth: art, music, being… The album was a collective catharsis among the members of Morfeo.
Decline It's the opening song. Ra. It's like a freefall jump that happens in slow motion and it forms a spiral. The album begins softly, calmly, with hints of light, and gradually becomes painted in darker tones. With Abyss The exploration concludes, the experimental journey into the depths. In Ra, Morpheus reached a soundscape that was inexplicable and completely new to them.
Editor's note: This article was originally published in Planarteria.com, a friendly Ecuadorian website and sister site of our project. They kindly allowed us to reproduce this article.