Álef and Proyecto Encarnación: the artist breaking Spanish music alongside producer Malax.
From working with David Kano to creating his own sound, the Almerian musician explores identity, emotion, and new musical paths.
By Susan Villa.
In an industry where identity often becomes a label, Álef moves in the opposite direction: he turns indefinition into his greatest artistic statement. Proyecto Encarnación is not just a collection of songs, but a process in motion, a deliberate search for sounds, emotions, and narratives that escape any recognizable formula. Between synthesizers that evoke the dance floors of the 70s and 80s and a contemporary sensitivity, his proposal moves between nostalgia and experimentation with unusual naturalness.
But beyond aesthetics, there is an intimate impulse that runs through the entire project: the need to express without filters. Álef does not speak of music as a product, but as a refuge, as catharsis, and as a way of organizing —or disorganizing— what happens within. His lyrics are born from emotion, from lived experience, and from what still hurts, building an honest narrative that connects with that part of the listener that rarely finds space in the conventional.