Elements - A Comprehensive Introduction To Jose Travieso (1994-2022)
Format: 4-LP
First Release: November 26, 2022
Label: Kukareku Records
Composed and recorded: Between 1999 and 2022
Instruments: A lot of! Mainly: piano; synthesizers; and guitars, bass, drums programming and vocals (disc #3)
# Tracks: 44 Length: 246:48
Tracklist
 01 | Improvisation In An Old Style (2013) | 2:26  |
| 02 | The Dictatorship Of Modern Time (1998 + 2008 + 2010) | 3:43 |
| 03 | El Problema de la Ética (2003) | 6:39 |
| 04 | Lo que Fue mi Humilde Sueño Andaluz (2003) | 5:48 |
| 05 | Donde Todo Es Música (instrumental demo version) (1999) | 3:46 |
| 06 | La Boîte (2011) | 2:02 |
| 07 | String Quartet “Tunguska”, Movement III: Minuet For Planet, Asteroids & Comet (2009) | 3:38 |
| 08 | Raymond Blue 2010 (2000 + 2002 + 2010) | 5:55 |
| 09 | Longing… (2010) | 6:28 |
| 10 | String Quartet “Tunguska”, Movement I: The Constant ‘Uncertainty’ (2009) | 3:57 |
| 11 | El Gato Negro (2001) | 2:54 |
| 12 | The Monster (Concerto For Flute In An Old Style, Movement I) (2010) | 2:54 |
| 13 | A lo Inalcanzable (2003 + 2011) | 3:34 |
| 14 | La Brecha (2003 + 2011) | 5:38 |
| 15 | A Tale For Our Wasted Years (2003 + 2009) | 7:24 |
| 01 | Zombie Nation (2010) | 3:58 |
| 02 | Shinigami’s Dream, No. 7 (‘Born To Die’ Mix) (2010 + 2011) | 10:56 |
| 03 | Fusing Into Black (2012) | 5:43 |
| 04 | ITABOT? (2000 + 2008) | 4:37 |
| 05 | Ensayo sobre Música Esporádica, No. 2: El Loco y la Niña (1999) | 7:01 |
| 06 | Las Cinco Construcciones de Babel, Parte V (Through The Looking Glass) (2000) | 4:01 |
| 07 | Shinigami’s Dream, No. 5 (2010) | 2:24 |
| 08 | Reflejos (Música Refleja) (excerpt) (1999) | 2:17 |
| 09 | Sleeping With Ghosts (2020) | 6:58 |
| 10 | The Red Room (2010) | 10:19 |
| 01 | CAUTIVA: Human (2009) | 5:17 |
| 02 | CAUTIVA: Freaks! (2015) | 5:07 |
| 03 | CAUTIVA: My Own Hell (2008) | 5:00 |
| 04 | CAUTIVA: Fire, Walk With Me! (with extended ending) (2006) | 7:34 |
| 05 | CAUTIVA: WAR (2008) | 3:04 |
| 06 | CAUTIVA: Swing Of Love (2008) | 8:18 |
| 07 | CAUTIVA: A Story Of Life, Love And Death (2014) | 6:43 |
| 08 | CAUTIVA: The Great Old One (2009) | 4:08 |
| 09 | CAUTIVA: I Am The Omega (2019 + 2022) | 9:46** |
| 10 | CAUTIVA: OBEY!! (excerpt – unfinished 2012 demo recording) (2012) [HIDDEN TRACK] | 0:36 |
| 01 | March Of The New Titans (ReGenesis XXXI) (2017) | 7:07 |
| 02 | Spirit (excerpt) (2019) | 10:28 |
| 03 | God’s Ladder (2016) | 6:28 |
| 04 | Orbiting TRAPPIST-1 (2017) | 4:36 |
| 05 | Cosmic Dispersion Of Life (2016) | 11:26 |
| 06 | Navigator (2015) | 5:37 |
| 07 | Improvisation 2019.11.13: The Dream (excerpt) (2019) | 9:44 |
| 08 | Passacaglia (2016) | 4:23 |
| 09 | Trapped In A Brief Childhood Memory (2016) | 6:51 |
*For each track, the number in brackets indicates the year(s) of composition.
**Including a silence of around 60 seconds at the end.
Details
First release: November 26, 2022 – Kukareku Records
Big 4-LP compilation which covers all my musical creation to date (since 1994 until 2022).
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.
For each track, the number in brackets indicates the year(s) of composition.
All the tracks remastered, except #209 and #309.
Disc #3 is the same than Cautiva’s «Songs Of Love, Hate And Death» (compilation, 2022). Disc #4 is very close to «The Electronic Years – 2016-2020» (compilation, 2022).
Artwork by Alves Pereira and Jose Travieso.
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Track #2-05 taken from «Ensayos sobre Música Esporádica» (EP, 2000).
Track #1-11 taken from «Música para una Guitarra sin Voz» (EP, 2001).
Tracks #1-03 and #1-04 taken from «De Luces y de Sombras» (LP, 2003).
Track #3-04 taken from Cautiva’s «Fire, Walk With Me!» (EP/demo, 2008).
Tracks #3-01, #3-03, #3-05, #3-06 and #3-08 taken from Cautiva’s «Human» (LP, 2009).
Tracks #1-05, #2-04, #2-06 and #2-08 taken from «A Retrospective: The Early Years – 1994-2003» (3-LP compilation, 2009).
Tracks #1-02, #1-07, #1-10, #1-12, #1-15 and #2-07 taken from «No More Faith» (LP, 2010).
Track #1-06 taken from «La Boîte» (single, 2011).
Tracks #2-01 and #2-10 taken from «Don’t Kill The Vinyl» (EP, 2011).
Tracks #1-08, #1-09, #1-13 and #1-14 taken from «The Illusionist» (LP, 2011).
Tracks #1-01, #2-02 and #2-03 taken from «Eclecticism – A 2008-2013 Retrospective» (2-LP compilation, 2014).
Tracks #3-02 and #3-07 taken from Cautiva’s «The Archangel Of Omega» (EP, 2015).
Tracks #4-03, #4-05, #4-06, #4-08 and #4-09 taken from «Navigator» (LP, 2016).
Track #4-01 taken from «Lost In Blue» (LP, 2017).
Tracks #4-02 and #4-04 taken from «Spirit» (EP, 2019).
Track #4-07 taken from «The Dream» (EP, 2020).
Track #3-09 taken from Cautiva’s «I Am» (single, 2022).
Track #2-09 taken from «The Electronic Years – 2016-2020» (compilation, 2022).
Finally, track #3-10 taken from Cautiva’s «Songs Of Love, Hate And Death» (compilation, 2022).
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You can download and get this 4-LP compilation on Bandcamp.
Previews
Lyrics
CAUTIVA: Human
THE CONSCIENCE:
(verse 1)
It’s time to hate the world,
Human world of domination!
Think, if Earth could talk
just would need only a word:
Nooo!
What are we doing around us?
Right here! Right now! Right
Taking everything,
Consuming all the life,
Parasiting the fate
Now you know what’s the human race!
THE NATURE:
(chorus)
Human!
When will you stop your hungry devastation,
human?!
Human!
Thousands of years spreading like a virus,
human!
Human!
Always feeding your machinery of madness,
human!
Human!
But one day you will not…
(pre-digression)
Saw my lungs!
Rot my veins!
Rape my entrails!
Ohhh!
(digression)
Someday
You will kill the last forest,
And then you,
you won’t be able to breathe and to live
Someday
You will kill the last of me,
But then you,
Then you will die and I will be reborn free!
And you won’t be,
Human!
THE CONSCIENCE:
(verse 2)
Our hunger is out of control
We can not stop our destruction!
Face the coming future
Just we’ll need that same word:
Nooo!
What were we doing in the past?
Right there! Right then! Right
Wasting everything,
Destroying all the life,
Parasiting our fate
Now you know what’s the human race!
THE NATURE:
(chorus)
Human!
When will you stop your hungry devastation,
human?!
Human!
Thousands of years spreading like a virus,
human!
Human!
Always feeding your machinery of madness,
human!
But one day you will not…
(coda)
You will not
Saw my lungs!
Rot my veins!
Rape my entrails!
CAUTIVA: Freaks!
[SECTION 1]
You! Hey!
Look at my face!
Look up, stop your phone,
show you have brain!
Raise your head
and look at me again, vain
Try to face up because…
You’re a freak!
I said… freak!
Big dumb smile
Shooting up!
Lost-looking eyes
Finger tic!
Fear of missing out
Watch again!
Your smartphone,
your cage!
[SECTION 2]
Raise your head
Try to raise your fucking head
Try to behave yourself, you’re a fake
Of what you were,
What you could be
All day wasting your time
Waiting for one more chime
Don’t you feel all that shame?
Phone addiction is your name
[SECTION 3]
Life is what is
happening while you are watching your screen!
Raise your head, look at me!
Talk to me now
Wake up and show me you are not a zombie!
Rise up!
Rise up against the nonsense!
Try again!
Argh!
[SECTION 4]
Obey the word of the herd!
Prey just taking your phone
Bend down, your new god has come
Yeah!
What kind of human being
are we creating today
giving way to the decay?
[Bridge]
Just try to face up again!
Reduce your consume!
[SECTION 5]
Don’t you know how to enjoy
the real world?
All of you
are a peripheral of your phone?
Why don’t you try to see
all the disease?
Freaks! Freaks! Freaks!
A lot of freaks! Hey, look at me!
[Bridge + CODA]
Okey, don’t look at me then
I’m giving up
I’m tired of you
Let your phone to control
even your soul
I leave!
CAUTIVA: My Own Hell
(verse 1)
My own hell
Would be to lose your faith
In all this love we give us
So much pain you removed to heal that!
Ohhh! So much pain!
Those times of Fire, Love & Hate
Don’t let me to remember them
If you leave, they will make me
(pre-chorus)
Broken! Rotten!
(chorus)
Circle would end,
Spiral would begin
Going down my whole universe
Earth bleeding tears,
Stars collapsing,
Black holes eating galaxies
(verse 2)
My own hell,
My cosmic enthropic own hell,
Where you are a shadow I dreamt
You, my light from every star was sent!
Ohhh! Look at me!
Look and tell me you are not a dream!
’cause without you there is no peace
If you leave, my heart would be
(pre-chorus)
Broken! Rotten!
(chorus)
Circle would end,
Spiral would begin
Going down my whole universe
Earth bleeding tears,
Stars collapsing,
Black holes eating galaxies
CAUTIVA: Fire, Walk With Me!
Corruption is my only friend
Welcome to Entropy
Deception was my misery
What I was I hate!
HATE!!
Broken, inner world
You gave me agony
These feelings, this lost control
Where did die the hope?!
Falling stars on a blackened tide
Withering my life
Silence, damned sorrowful
I’ll never find the calm!
[CHORUS]
————————————-
Hell is stronger than heaven
Your kingdom has been come
Fire crushes Love, Hate is Peace
Cold all surround. Fire, walk with
Me
Fire…
…Fire…
…Fire
Walk with me!!
Fire…
…Fire…
…Fire
Walk with me!!
————————————–
Unconscious dream of a dying bird
Still I fly in a lie
The nightmares are my atrophy
What unpieced my wings!
SICK!!
Sickness, bastard love
I spit at our faces
My guilty. Oh, yes, I was
H’w long will last this storm?!
[CHORUS]
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
CAUTIVA: WAR
Die!
(verse 1)
Hey, you stupid men,
What did you think?
Thousands of years and you did
Not not did not learn this.
Hey, human race,
I am the death,
I’m the destroyer of worlds,
Because my name is WAR!
(chorus)
WAR!
No solution!
WAR!
No solution at all!
(verse 2)
Hey, your fucking brain,
There is no gain,
I’m going to bring you again
The blood, the pain, the death.
Hey, revolting race,
Where is your faith?
The only thing I live is:
The blood, the pain, the death, the WAR!
(chorus)
WAR!
No solution!
WAR!
Brave men, let’s go…
(digression)
WAR!
WAR!
Destruction! Torture! Rape!
Poverty! Famine! Hate!
Disease! Death! Regret!
Liars! (rich!) Power! Farce!
WAR!
CAUTIVA: Swing Of Love
(verse 1)
Argh! Argh!
Another day I wake up dead,
’cause despite I breathe,
my legs are so tired I can not
get up to keep your swing.
Anyway I’m here, my sweet love,
waiting for your return,
moved, excited and counting the seconds,
trying to raise and get on…
Let’s dance!
(pre-chorus)
BORN to beat my face!
BORN to kick my head!
BORN to teach my child!
BORN to break my faith!
BORN to rot my heart!
BORN to kill myself!
(chorus)
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh!
(verse 2)
One day you brought the hate at home,
everything began.
First your insults and reproach,
later the despise was.
I learnt to dance your swing of love,
taking as own my role.
Everyday I yearned for the change of all,
stupid and guilty I was…
Let’s dance!
(pre-chorus)
BORN to beat my face!
BORN to kick my head!
BORN to teach my child!
BORN to break my faith!
BORN to rot my heart!
BORN to kill myself!
(chorus)
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh!
(digression)
Woman, you do know that
he’s not going to change for
you decide, as the first time,
if to dance!
Victim of his frustrations,
accomplice of domination,
fight or just be a number
more of stadistics!
Fight!
Hit her!
I’m not possession of your fist!
Beat her!
I’m not the face of your shit!
Watch you!
Venom, pestilent virus!
Turn you!
REMEMBER YOUR VILE ATTITUDE!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Fight!
(verse 3)
Argh! Argh!
Another day I wake up dead,
’cause despite I breathe,
my legs are so tired I can not
get up to keep your swing.
A long time ago we began to dance
and we haven’t stopped yet.
How many years, my sweet love?
How much more remains?
Let’s dance!
(pre-chorus)
BORN to beat my face!
BORN to kick my head!
BORN to teach my child!
BORN to break my faith!
BORN to rot my heart!
BORN to kill myself!
(chorus)
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh! Swing of your love!
Argh!
(coda)
Argh! Argh! Argh! Argh!
CAUTIVA: A Story Of Life, Love And Death
[INTRO]
Thirty years ago the final war began.
At the beginning it was just one more war between two nations,
But slowly it turned in a global storm of chaos, devastation and death.
[SECTION 1]
WAR!
Bleeding horror!
Apocalyptic race!
Day by day!
Doomsday!
Never it’ll stop,
No hope,
Only my death is my rest
The hell is no place for a kid
What I did!
[SECTION 2]
When you live in hell,
A piece of love is Eden
Yesterday she and I felt like gods;
Today, rats…
So wretched rats
[SECTION 3]
Vile. Week. Insane.
There is no change
Tears!
Welcome my son
This is the world I have spun… for you
Act of love
Sadistic thorn
Fears!
[SOLOS]
Die my son!
[SECTION 4]
My son,
Hopeful source that I’ve dried up,
Every gift, every thought to live
You, who were once my own will
Forgive
These hands full of your blood and my filth,
All my blame, all my sins and shame
Please, forgive my so awful being
You don’t deserve all this pain
Which would be reserved for all the bad men
You don’t need to be corrupted
By the madness of the world’s greed
[SECTION 1, REPEAT]
WAR!
Bleeding horror!
Apocalyptic race!
Day by day!
Doomsday!
Never it’ll stop,
No hope,
Only my death is my rest
The hell is no place for a kid
What I did!
CAUTIVA: The Great Old One
You!
You!
(digression)
You, The Mindless Blind Daemon!
Boundless Lord of All!
Amorphous Blight of Primal Pain!
Crawling Chaos of Hate!
I summon you to…
Kill!
Them!
(verse 1)
Azathoth,
The King of Gods,
Nuclear Void of Cosmos
Bleeding are my fleeting sockets,
Take and burst my eyeballs!
Let my pain be witness!
Let my blindess sing!
Rape my body and break my soul!
But destroy this world!
(chorus)
Wake from your nightmare!
Break all of your chains!
Chain the human race!
Enslave the consciousness!
Grave for the opponent!
Bane of the innocent!
Crawling Chaos of Hate!
(chorus)
Wake from your nightmare!
Break all of your chains!
Chain the human race!
Enslave the consciousness!
Grave for the opponent!
Bane of the innocent!
Crawling Chaos of Hate!
Hate!
(verse 2)
Azathoth,
Killing of All,
The Great Old One Beyond the Spheres
of the Universe,
Am-
putate my hands,
my legs and everything
I have been and drink
My brain
and all my entrails
gnowing from my inside
You, my Eternal Pain
Doomsday,
for human race,
I will be the first
one, and then the world!
You!
CAUTIVA: I Am The Omega
[VOCAL SECTION 1 – GOD]
Aaarrrggghhh!
Argh! Awake I’m staying
Crawling Chaos of Hate
Rage
Wherever you are I’m your fate!
Oh!
Argh! The Flame and The Ash!
Whatever you thought,
Loved,
Felt,
Lived…
Is not going to exist!
I am!
[VOCAL SECTION 2 – HUMAN]
Doomsday for Human Race,
Omnicide of All Life, hell awaits,
Killing of All, Nuclear Void of Horror,
Mindless Boundless Blight of Primal Pain
Freezing the time into a burning landscape
Where my memory of all I lost is killing my sense
Crushing my mind in a loop of spirits
Which remind me every day that they are dead!
Give back life to those I have loved!
Oh!
[VOCAL SECTION 3 – GOD]
I am Death
I am Pain
I am Loss
I am God
I am End
I am Void
I am Lord
Of All Things,
Lord of Nothing,
Lord, the Only One Lord
[VOCAL SECTION 1 ALT – GOD]
Aaarrrggghhh!
Argh! The Flame and The Ash!
Whatever you thought,
Loved,
Felt,
Lived,
Dreamed,
Hoped…
Wherever you are I’m your fate!
Oh!
