TRACKS
El baile de los vencejos [+] || Listen
Is the main subject of the album that opens with the original track and ends with a remix not programmed in the pre-production; these are the cover of the book.
It was the first song I composed far from the influences exerted on me by musicians like Keith Jarret, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti and, in general, all those who worked for ECM. I found my place in music; this little space where you recognize yourself as a composer with something to say. Part of the responsibility belongs to Johann Sebastian Bach and his fugue; also guilty are minimalism and impressionism….
Un poquito de Orégano [+] || Listen
This is the embryo of a song that will be much longer. These are memories of my childhood, hunting lizards with my brother in the suburbs of my native Vigo and also a modest tribute to the music of Oregon. I have to thank for the contribution of trumpeter Manuel Machado and precussionist (Drummer?) Aleix Tobías to this song.
La espera [+] || Listen
A “funky” rhythm made with piano, double-bass, violins and violas to support the long notes of a clarinet and cellos. I can’t say much more about this track. Just listen with attention and, if possible, with a glass of good wine….
A las puertas del mar [+] || Listen
Little boats arrive from Africa and Southamerica with new sounds and folklore. It’s the definitive trip. The strings of this song were recorded in Granada, with musicians from the Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Granada (Mariela Comesaña, my sister, violin; Donald Lyons, viola and Gabriel Delgado, cello) and they coexist together with instruments like buzuki (by Josete Ordóñez) or xeremia tible (by Xavi Lozano)..
En tu cara dormida [+] || Listen
A simple and delicate love song. Jennifer Prado (piano) and Carlos Alonso (oboe).
Dalle! [+] || Listen
“Dalle a o bombo” (Play drum!) as they said in Galicia. Just an entertainment with a concert drum pretending to be a disco drum, plus percussion with anvils
and Manuel Machado, Ove Larson and Christoph Flueler (trumpet, trombone and tuba) going crazy with a very unusual song (probably it was funny just for me…). Disco music, New Orleans, Valencian bands and pasodoble, together??!.
Tango un muñeco [+] || Listen
Probably the first child of every composer comes with a song in their hands because I never thought to write a tango and there it was… The title is also a play on words in Spanish… It was the hardest track for all of us. Thanks a lot to Jennifer Prado (piano), Ricardo Lewis (viola) and Adrián Rodríguez (Cello).
Un momentito [+] || Listen
“A little moment”. That’s it. A little moment taken from a score composed for a film. The hardest track to record because of my insistence to stress out the fantastic armonics of the grand piano.
Swifts’ dance remix [+] || Listen
I never imagined including a remix in my album… But when Luca Germini came with the idea I said: Why not? Let’s see what happen and if I don’t like it… we trow it out!! But I liked it. I think it is an amazing end for an album that pretends not to go unnoticed…at least for those who loves music like me!!