| Format: 3-LP Box |

| First Release: March 2009 |

| Label: Abracadaver Music |

| Composed: 1994 – June 2003; October-December 2008 |

| Recorded: 1996 – April 2003; October 2008 – March 2009 |

| Instruments: Mainly: piano and keyboards |

| # Tracks: 42 | Length: 232:27 |

3-CD box set compilation released in March 2009.

This work is the definitive retrospective to my early years (1994-2003 period), characterized mainly by solo piano, minimalism, romanticism and experimentation. Over the course of almost four hours, it gathers all the released works from 2000-2003, as well as many unreleased pieces (more than 20 tracks!) from that 1994-2003 period.

When in 2008 I was working on Cautiva’s album «Human», I returned to my old archive recordings and was amazed by the amount of unreleased material I found there. For a time, I had forgotten about my early work and all those recordings and projects –many of them unfinished–, so I thought it would be a good idea to do something special and release the most of this material in some form. This work was the result.

All the tracks were remastered/mixed during autumn 2008 and winter 2008/09.

Tracks #5, #31 and #40 taken from «Ensayos sobre Música Esporádica» (EP, 2000).

Tracks #14 and #33 taken from «Lluvia de Mayo» (CD-S, 2000).

Tracks #6, #7, #8, #19, #20, #21 and #37 taken from «Música para una Guitarra sin Voz» (EP, 2001).

Tracks #12, #27 and #35 taken from «Tres Piezas para Oídos Distintos» (EP, 2002).

Tracks #2, #3, #15, #16, #29 and #38 taken from «De Luces y de Sombras» (LP, 2003).

All the rest of the music is previously unreleased.

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Tracks #6, #8, #19, #21 and #37 co-written with José L. Cabeza for the Hypnotica project.

Track #17 based on a theme of Rimsky-Korsakow.

Track #31 is a Philip Glass cover.

Track #11 written originally by Felix Mendelssohn.

Track #32 written originally by Ludwig van Beethoven

Track #39 written originally by Erik Satie.

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Moreover, it’s interesting to note that:

Tracks #1, #29 (partially and instrumented) and #34 were intended to be part of a larger work in several movements and with singers, but it was never finished.

Tracks #4 and #14 (in an earlier version) were also intended to be part of a larger work in four movements, never finished.

Track #9 was my first finished composition, except for very short pieces (less than 1 minute).

Tracks #10 and #42 were partially composed in 2008 for this release.

Track #18 is a simple study inspired by Mozart’s first piano bagatelles.

Tracks #22, #23, #24, #25 and #26 form a larger work. All the music is written using the main motif of Philip Glass’s «Music In Similar Motion» (2 seconds of music) and developing it into a “sporadic and minimalist” development of more than 23 minutes, based on structure, mathematical logic, geometry and the timbre of the different instruments. It’s a very crazy composition, but I love it.

Track #28 was meant to be part of a larger work in three movements, never finished. Only the first movement was partially written.

Track #36 was part of a long study when I was interested in “reflected music”, a concept that preceded “sporadic music” and that I eventually abandoned. In “reflected music”, the fingers of the left hand and the right hand pressed the keys simultaneously, like a mirror reflection.

Track #41 can be considered my first ambient/electronic recording.

Track #42 was used as introduction for Cautiva’s album «Human» (2009).

You can download and get this 3-LP compilation on Bandcamp.