'The Advent Of Angels". Somehow a second part of "A Hundred Seas Of Light". Mostly inspired
by the Persian Sufi poet Attar. With these albums I am kind of merging modern classical music with experimental, sometimes noise, stuff.
RUSTY LIGHT OF EXPIRED STARS
I forgot to post here a very treasured little album I made last year, "Rusty Light Of Expired Stars", for my project Sebastian In Dream.
EPHEMERA
I have released a new piano album, titled 'EPHEMERA'. It is a selection of all the piano recordings I've made during 2019.
The image of the cover is a picture I took in Kiev of a piano that was abandoned in a park (Mariinskyi park). I used to take daily walks this year around that place.
ORPHIKÁ. "ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD. VOL II."
This album is inspired in the Orphic "Totenpass" that is written in the Orphic Gold tablets, especially in the gold leaf of Peleteia (300-200 BC), which says something like:
“I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven, but of Heaven is my birth:
this you know yourselves. I am parched with thirst and perishing:
give me quickly chill water flowing from Mnemosyne lake”
This Totenpass was meant to be recited after death, as means of showing to the judges of the Underworld that the person had been initiated in the Orphic/Dionysiac mysteries, and was meant as a “password”. Among many other things, this totenpass evokes Remembrance, remembrance of the divine-heavenly nature that dwells within all of us.
The four pieces of this albums are created and recorded in a single session, one for each piece, in a kind of flowing improvisation. There are some few occasional "incidents" and "errors" present in the recording. I decided to leave them, despite they would be easily edited, so to respect the very nature of the moments in which these sounds were created.
WHITE CROSS. 'APOCALYPTIC EXPECTATIONS'
My new album 'Apocalyptic Expectations' (from my project White Cross) has just been released by the Russian label based in Moscow День забытой жизни (Day Of Life Forgotten). The whole album is in the following link:
https://thedayoflifeforgotten.bandcamp.com/album/apocalyptic-expectations
Многоплановая, глубокая, имеющая серьёзную сакрально-философскую основу работа мадридского композитора, художника и литератора Álvaro Barcala. По мысли автора - "Apocalyptic expectations" основан на концепции апокалипсиса, не как разрушения, а как смерти мира и самого профанного «Я», которое должно возродиться в мире и в существенном «Я». Для этого музыкальный процесс - это минимализм, минимализм как аскетизм или аскетизм как минимализм. Звук альбома на стыке эмбиента, индастриал-нойз и неокласики. Мощь, глубина и объёмность звучания, при минимуме выразительных средств. Удивительное сочетание/сосуществование прозрачно-меланхолических гармонико-мелодических частей и наплывов инфернального скрежета. Прекрасно скомпонованная и очень убедительно звучащая запись.
https://thedayoflifeforgotten.bandcamp.com/album/apocalyptic-expectations
Многоплановая, глубокая, имеющая серьёзную сакрально-философскую основу работа мадридского композитора, художника и литератора Álvaro Barcala. По мысли автора - "Apocalyptic expectations" основан на концепции апокалипсиса, не как разрушения, а как смерти мира и самого профанного «Я», которое должно возродиться в мире и в существенном «Я». Для этого музыкальный процесс - это минимализм, минимализм как аскетизм или аскетизм как минимализм. Звук альбома на стыке эмбиента, индастриал-нойз и неокласики. Мощь, глубина и объёмность звучания, при минимуме выразительных средств. Удивительное сочетание/сосуществование прозрачно-меланхолических гармонико-мелодических частей и наплывов инфернального скрежета. Прекрасно скомпонованная и очень убедительно звучащая запись.
A HUNDRED SEAS OF LIGHT
I have just released this album, 'A Hundred Seas Of Light', a homage to my beloved Persian Sufi Poet Attar (Also known as Farīd ud-Dīn).
In this occasion I have merged different genres, from experimental electronics to modern classical, always following a sense of poetics.
Whole Album in the following link:
ORPHIKÁ. 'ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD. VOL I. JOURNEY'
This is the new album I have released as Orphiká, 'Orpheus In the Underworld. Vol I. Journey'.
A musical journey through the Underworld, from the death of the mundane world, from the death of the mundane self, so to be reborn again in the Real.
SEBASTIAN IN DREAM. 'AS THE SUN DIES IN THE SKYLINE
Happy to announce my new experimental/ambient/noise project 'Sebastian In Dream' has been released in the Russian label 'День забытой жизни' (The Day Of Life Forgotten), being 'As The Sun Dies In The Skyline' my first album with this project. You can listen and download the whole album in the following link:
https://thedayoflifeforgotten.bandcamp.com/album/as-the-sun-dies-in-the-skyline
The conception of this album started on an evening of this ending winter in which I went to a suburbian/industrial area of my city, Madrid. There I took a long walk during dusk, while I could see how literally the Sun was setting in the city skyline. During that walk I made some field recordings and wrote some sentences trying to catch the numinous spirit of the area and how that spirit interacted with me. With those sentences I composed a poem, and each verse of that poem is the title of each track. The whole album is a sound poem with which I try to make manifest the numinous spirit of my city's suburbia and how you become part of that spirit as you walk through those streets.
https://thedayoflifeforgotten.bandcamp.com/album/as-the-sun-dies-in-the-skyline
The conception of this album started on an evening of this ending winter in which I went to a suburbian/industrial area of my city, Madrid. There I took a long walk during dusk, while I could see how literally the Sun was setting in the city skyline. During that walk I made some field recordings and wrote some sentences trying to catch the numinous spirit of the area and how that spirit interacted with me. With those sentences I composed a poem, and each verse of that poem is the title of each track. The whole album is a sound poem with which I try to make manifest the numinous spirit of my city's suburbia and how you become part of that spirit as you walk through those streets.
Updating
I have to make a big update of my drawing/painting works in this blog, basically my artwork of the last years. Instead I have posted periodically my musical work here, but there are several drawing books and series of paintings that are not yet updated on this page. But you can see some few hints and few examples of my new work on my instagram page:
Updates will come soon, nevertheless.
Erotic Melancholia. -Piano Solo Album-
I am happy to announce I have released a new piano solo album, 'Erotic Melancholia'.
Twelve piano solo works about the eroticism of melancholia.
I've conceived melancholy as a bare sensual phenomena that let all naked emotions show in their most pure and honest state.
These piano pieces lack of decoration, they are minimal, they are undressed, just covered by thin transparent veils you can see through. I've conceived eroticism in this sense at the time of making this minimalistic music.
Twelve piano solo works about the eroticism of melancholia.
I've conceived melancholy as a bare sensual phenomena that let all naked emotions show in their most pure and honest state.
These piano pieces lack of decoration, they are minimal, they are undressed, just covered by thin transparent veils you can see through. I've conceived eroticism in this sense at the time of making this minimalistic music.
DHALGREN
I've just released with my project Orphiká this one-track album, inspired by the novel 'DHALGREN', written by Samuel R. Delany.
20 minutes of improvised harsh atmospheric drone over which I played a piano improvisation too.
Available here:
https://orphika.bandcamp.com/album/dhalgren
20 minutes of improvised harsh atmospheric drone over which I played a piano improvisation too.
Available here:
https://orphika.bandcamp.com/album/dhalgren
SACRED EROSION. Vol 2
In the last few weeks I am releasing most of the music projects I've been working on during the whole year. Many releases in a short time, but they need to see the light before I start with new things in this new year. So here it is the second volume of 'Sacred Erosion', for my project Orphiká.
THE LANDSCAPE BELOW
I have released in bandcamp the first volume of 'The Landscape Below', for my project Orphiká.
The tracks of this album are complementary with the paintings I've been making with the same name.
SACRED EROSION Vol.1
I'm happy to announce that I've just released the first volume of the Orphiká album in which I have been totally immersed during the last months, since I came back from Russia.
It is the first of the three volumes that compound my album/project 'Sacred Erosion'.
This whole project exposes the process of erosion, whether provoked by natural forces or human vandalism, as a sacred phenomena. Mind, body and nature in general get eroded as Time passes by, being their spirit released in decaying ecstasy, through a constant change of state. A phenomena that is beautifully perceivable in eroded and decayed art, the beauty of architectonical ruins and corroded paintings. An eroded beauty that is sacred.
In this first volume I convey such ideas and inner drives in the shape of progressive drone sounds, created mostly with synths, where textures, atmospheres and melodies are developed in a decaying, eroding and poetical sense.
ORPHIKÁ. 'Echoing Caves' Vol.1
While I was working in my last album of Orphiká, which is almost done, sometimes I took a break from it and recorded some sudden sonic blasts that came to me in a much more raw and obscure way than the lyrical and more melodic drone pieces of the "main" album in which I've been immerse. Before giving light to that big lyrical-drone project I have just released these improvised pieces, ‘Echoing Caves’, in this volume. I will release more as the inner caves keep roaring. The whole album in the following link:
Iridescence. Piano album
I've just released my album 'Iridescence' on bandcamp.
Twelve piano pieces that contain the iridescence inside me and inside everything.
You can listen the whole album in the following link, and you can download/purchase it as well from there, so that giving support to the artist 
Within And Without
I have just released the piano solo album I have been working on during the last months, 'Within And Without', on bandcamp.
It is an album of 12 piano tracks that have been inspired from within and from without. You can listen the whole album or download it with CD audio quality (so that giving support to the artist ) in the following link:
) in the following link:In The Name Of The Wind
I have just released my album 'In The Name Of The Wind' on bandcamp.
(I've posted here some of its tracks along last winter).
(I've posted here some of its tracks along last winter).
This album is a meditative introspection. Each piece is a soft and windy prayer, a meditative improvisation, in which I used only wind instruments as a means to evoke the primordial "wind" and "breath"
that shake and emanate all things created.
that shake and emanate all things created.
The pieces of this album are not necessarily meant to be listened in a row, from the first
to the last one, but each of them can be used for a specific moment.
to the last one, but each of them can be used for a specific moment.
Concepts as Nada Brahma or practices as Dhikr were an inspiration
at the time of approaching the performance/improvisation of these pieces.
at the time of approaching the performance/improvisation of these pieces.
The piece 'I Am Not Afraid Of The Wind' is inspired by the homonymous poem written by Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.
Breeze By A Distant Shore
I am working on an album devoted to winds. This piece is a hint of this project.
ORPHIKÁ. Twilight Of The Endless Being
I have published on bandcamp the second album of my project Orphiká:
In this album I keep exploring into the myth of Orpheus, the resonance of his name and the Orphic texts, all of it through 12 tracks with sounds like drone, dark ambient, meditative music and ritual.
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