ALICE BOMAN & CORNELIA MURR Present New Single 'Heart of Scorpio' & Share UK Live Dates at SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
CORNELIA MURR
&
ALICE BOMAN
Share new single ‘Heart of Scorpio’
Announces live dates together at Servant Jazz Quarters, London September 11th and 12th
Listen to ‘Heart of Scorpio’ here
Swedish songwriter Alice Boman in collaboration with London born, California-based singer Cornelia Murr have today released new single ‘Heart of Scorpio’ released via Play It Again Sam. The collaborators will come together for two nights, playing together at Servant Jazz Quarters in London, September 11th and 12th.
Recorded at the Ladder Factory in South El Monte, Los Angeles, and co-produced by the pair, in addition to Daniel E Garcia (Reverend Baron), ‘Heart of Scorpio’ is a track that showcases the sonic beauty of the duos soothing vocals, as well as rich musicianship combining organ, sax and percussion to create a dream-like state.
On the collaboration Boman says: “I love Cornelia’s music and meeting and getting to know her while also making something together has been so special. It felt like we understood each other and the way we approached this felt very free and joyful. Being so used to releasing music on my own, releasing this song with Cornelia is really exciting. Sharing the whole process has been such a fun and beautiful experience."
Murr says “I first heard Alice’s music in 2014 and fell in love with it. It was very meaningful and full-circle-feeling to me to connect with her and collaborate all these years later. Co-writing isn’t something I’ve done much of, but it felt incredibly special and organic the way the song came about, ending up as something similar to each of our own individual work but with its own character altogether, a true blend of energies making something new.”
The single follows Alice Boman’s previous LP The Space Between, released 21st October 2022, via Play It Again Sam.
Listen to ‘Heart of Scorpio’ here
ABOUT ALICE BOMAN
Alice Boman has been thinking about space a lot lately. The silence between sounds, the unspoken bonds between humans, the enormity of the universe and her place within it. “Writing is still a way for me to understand myself,” Boman explains. “As an overthinker, there’s this constant motion in my head, so it helps to sit down and write about it to actually understand what I feel or think. Or just to find stillness.”
You can follow these mini epiphanies on The Space Between, the Swedish singer-songwriter’s stunning latest album. Ruminating on intimacy and existential angst, to listen is to hear Boman’s thoughts unfurl in real time, her quiet contemplations cocooned in sympathetic arrangements created in collaboration with producer Patrik Berger (Robyn, Lana Del Rey).
Berger also produced her 2020 debut album, Dream On, which received widespread praise for its immersive yet startlingly-intimate soundscapes. And yet, for all the acclaim, its ascent was ultimately impeded when the world shut down that March. “When COVID came, I had to cancel everything,” Boman recalls. “And while I know some people used that time to go straight into writing, I just couldn’t find any inspiration.”
By the fall of 2021 Boman had rallied, and that winter she and Berger started looking at song structures, recording a jamming session with drummer Nils Törnqvist. It proved such a productive experience they abandoned their initial plan to undertake a detailed pre-production, and instead booked a week at Berger’s studio in Stockholm, working intensively, with Boman even booking a chakra healing session, and a hotel next to the studio so she could remain in the creative sphere without having to break her flow. "It was such a playful process", she recalls. "Me and Patrik played together on separate synths on a lot of the songs — just improvising and trying out stuff. I think you can really feel that in the production.”
The album is very much a journey, charting Boman’s progress from fear (‘Honey’, ‘Maybe’) to the “place of tenderness” she ultimately arrives at on ‘Space’, the album’s exquisite closing track. It’s a journey she hopes listeners will share in, finding comfort in community. Because as Boman knows all too well, when life gets too much, there’s always music.
ABOUT CORNELIA MURR
Cornelia Murr was born in London and resides in California as a dual citizen, having spent much of her childhood moving through the United States, from Colorado to Massachusetts, California to New York City and upstate New York. Working with producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket on her 2018 debut album Lake Tear of the Clouds, Murr conjured a hazy blend of folk and cosmic soul music, bringing to mind the fantasias of Broadcast, Stereolab’s most pastoral moments, and the spooky romance of Beach House.
Cornelia released the single ‘Hang Yr Hat’ in 2021, inspired by the art of mime and the legendary Marcel Marceau, followed by the self-produced EP Corridor in November 2022, which No Depression described “is as much an exploration of sparkling pop as it is a deeply felt mediation on the ache of being alive”.
Working with producer Luke Temple (Adrianne Lenker, Hand Habits), Cornelia completed tracking her second full length LP this Summer. She has toured with such contemporaries as Rodrigo Amarante, Lucius, Michael Nau, and Dana Gavanski.
ALICE BOMAN & CORNELIA MURR
LIVE AT SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS, LONDON
September 11th – Tickets available here
September 12th – Tickets available here
