| Format: EP |

| First Release: April 2002 |

| Label: Casa-Ray |

| Composed: Summer of 2000 and March 2002 (track #1); December 2000 and February 2002 (track #2); March 2000 (track #3) |

| Recorded: March 2002 (track #1); February 2002 (track #2); March 2000 (track #3) |

| Instruments: Piano |

| # Tracks: 3 | Length: 31:13 |

First release in April 2002.

This EP features three piano recordings exploring very different styles: jazz-fusion (track #1), romanticism (track #2) and minimalism (track #3).

The track #1, written in 2002 and recorded live in the studio, is an experimental-fusion piece where I try to bring together a collage of four musical styles: jazz, minimalism, flamenco and “sporadic music” (see the «Ensayos sobre Música Esporádica» EP to know more about my old style of composition called “sporadic music”).

«Raymond Blue», the track #2, is a romantic-style piece built from different improvisations recorded during the last days of December 2000. As a curiosity, a brief fragment of one of the passages is directly connected (as a tribute) to «The Fosse», piece for piano and voice written by Wim Mertens for his 1985 album «Maximizing The Audience». «Raymond Blue» was my «Romantic Poem No. 3».

Finally, the track #3 -written in March of 2000- is dedicated to the minimalist composer Steve Reich. Written for two pianos, the entire piece is built from a single musical motif made of complex chords along 18 steps of one only bar. Within a hyper-organized and rigid structure, this motif always appears in four forms (slow, fast, retrograde-slow, and retrograde-fast), with a piano playing an octave above the other. Both pianos go simultaneously through accelerations and decelerations by steps, following a strict timing routine, until they eventually return to the starting point of the long motif. This collapse creates unimaginable things! 🙂

Artwork and sleeve design by José Travieso.

This EP was remastered in 2008.

You can download and get this EP on Bandcamp.