A murky world, Fernando Alfaro

Fernando Alfaro is one of the leading musicians in Spanish independent rock and the leader and vocalist of one of the cult groups of the nineties: Surfin' Bichos, recently reunited after a hiatus of three decades to record an album that has been released in 2023.
"Turbid World" is Alfaro's first novel and draws on his song lyrics to populate its rich cast of tormented characters, among whom Ángel Turbio stands out, a reflection of the author himself. Written in a stark, poignant, and lyrical style—somewhere between a picaresque novel and Céline—"Turbid World" is a kind of Iberian bildungsroman filled with unforgettable characters, prison epics, hard drugs, and fleeting loves.
Furthermore, this volume includes all the lyrics written by Fernando Alfaro, both those composed for Surfin' Bichos and those from later incarnations in groups like Chucho or solo projects. The book's originality lies in the fact that it not only presents the lyrics but also seeks to establish thematic parallels between songs—some separated by time—in order to reveal a correlation of recurring themes and motifs in the singer's intense and tormented poetry.

• Paperback
• Number of pages: 400