ô¨ Moriarty's fourth album picks up where "The Missing Room" (2011) left off: we reopened trunks full of accumulated scraps from years past, rummaged through unfinished fragments born from endless tours and parallel projects: There were dictaphone recordings of improvised pieces, created once and then lost, captured backstage at theaters, in bedrooms and basements. In the attic of a farmhouse, nestled deep in an Alsatian valley, we had written and recorded stories of tragic women. Cycling through Kyoto, we had loudly improvised the story of a fallen man, then recorded a version of that song with the Cajun wizards Mama Rosin. There was also the musical adaptation of Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita," a radio play, which gave birth to six new tracks. Finally, after three years of touring, we settled back in Paris and let new songs emerge. Again, we were surprised to find that these songs revolved - closely or loosely - around the theme of the afterlife, of the passage from one world to another, of the invisible dance between the living and ghosts. We often mock our own uncontrollable penchant for writing mournful songs, for transforming music into Totentanz, into a tragicomic dance of death. So we decided to call this album Epitaph, to mock death, and to believe that one can dance with it. ô£Then, as is our custom, we let the songs mature on stage, in contact with the public, during a tour of 22 small venues in France and Switzerland, before presenting them at the Philharmonie 2 in Paris on January 24 and 25, 2015. "Epitaph" was recorded and mixed by Renaud Letang at Ferber studios in Paris.
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