Greetings to everyone!
Last week it was released «Elements», my third and final compilation to be released in 2022. In this case, «Elements» is the big project, a 4-LP compilation of more than 4 hours of music covering all my stuff to date (since 1994 until my last composition of the present year!). As I was anticipating in my last post, this extended compilation, subtitled «A Comprehensive Introduction To Jose Travieso (1994-2022)», is divided in 4 discs/parts, and each disc is related to one of the four elements! So, disc #1 (Earth), with a heavy emotional load the most of the times, is dedicated to my romantic, piano and neo-classical/post-minimalist music. Disc #2 (Water) is dedicated to my experimental and avant-garde music, changing music as the states of the water… Disc #3 (Fire) is dedicated to my technical, progressive and extreme thrash metal project CAUTIVA. Finally, disc #4 (Air) is dedicated to my electronic music, in which wind and air play an important role. As a result, this work flows as a self-explained journey which help to understand my music, even for me!
All the music is remastered (except for two recent tracks), and personally this work has helped me to make a nice revision of my old stuff (2003 and previous years), which I didn’t listen in years in the most of the cases! I think the sound is much better in some cases than the original versions…
It’s important to say that part of this big 4-LP compilation has been previously released in the past months. Concretely, the disc #3 is the same than Cautiva’s «Songs Of Love, Hate And Death» (compilation, 2022); and the disc #4 is very close to «The Electronic Years – 2016-2020» (compilation, 2022).
If you want to know more about this work, you can visit Bandcamp here: «Elements – A Comprehensive Introduction To Jose Travieso (1994-2022)». I’ll be making this compilation free for the next month so you can download it and listen to it if you want to, but since January 2023 the price will be around 5 or 6 euros/dollars.
I hope you like!
With this work I close forever an important period: all the music that I’ve been creating during the past decades. From here, in the future, I want to start new plans in my life. I don’t know yet if music will be part of any of them, but it is certain that, if so, this possible music will be a new starting point… So, with the final release of «Elements», I’m crossing a point of no return! 🙂 2023 will be a year of experimentation, mostly non-musical projects, but anyway I have some ideas for music too. Just I don’t know actually if these ideas will work or not… Let’s see…
And, connecting with my previous post, let’s make a revision again of the state of all the compilation of 2022 and more:
1. The compilation of my electronic period of the last years: Released!
2. The compilation dedicated to my thrash metal project CAUTIVA: Released!
3. “A big compilation of all my music, since 1990s to 2022”: this work. So, released too!
4. Finally, “a compilation dedicated to my most ambient and drone music”. I have some ideas, but this work would be a connection with my possible future music (ambient music) and I’ll start to work in it only if I finally decide to start such period in my musical life. Time will tell!
«Works» PDFs updated!
Happy 2023 and enjoy the life the most you can!
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