Madrelarva - Liminal Works (2021)

Although what we all experienced in 2020 completely paralyzed the music world, it does not seem to affect the creativity and work ethic of Julio Tornero at all, who managed to release up to seven new works under his alias Madrelarva through labels such as Faith Disciplines, Marbre Negre, LENDT or Phantasma Disques. And now, just entered the new year, Liminal Works appears, his third work for Cønjuntø Vacíø.

Madrelarva is the project with which Julio Tornero abandons dance music to hide between the folds of a blanket of sickly loops that seem to inhabit a remote post-industrial landscape with a life of their own. But nothing could be further from the truth: the ten songs that make up this new work were recorded in Higueruela, in the middle of the La Mancha steppe, a place that Julio knows perfectly because it has seen him grow. Liminal Works, and in a way all his work with Madrelarva, seem to reflect on the issue of isolation and schizophrenia - that funny disease, Panero said - that it causes. Liminal Works will be appreciated by those who appreciate the music of artists such as Nocturnal Emissions, Nurse With Wound or Aaron Dilloway.