THAT THROUGH WHICH THE SOUND COMES

released September 2007

(...)Thus the very word "person" is compounded of the two Latin words per and sona, and therefore signifies, "that through which the sound comes". (...) C.W. Leadbeater.

The album is split in 11 tracks; which 9 are songs, one is a sound sculpture and one is a guided meditation/spoken word artwork.

A brief description of each one of the tracks:

Asteroid's Dream - The asteroid belt, in our solar system, is between Mars and Jupiter. From the Sun until Mars, we have rocky and solid planets, including ours, of course. After the belt, from Jupiter onwards, the planets are mainly formed on gas, with a rocky core only. So, I thought: Couldn't be that our solar system is a living being on its own, and the asteroid belt is only a division of it? Following microcosm and macrocosm hierarchies, maybe Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are subtle fields forming a denser entity around the Sun, and after the belt, those massive guardians made of gas are simply dividing extra layers of the subtle fields for this being.

Sheer / Stark – A reflection on stars and the universe, and how they influence me.

Ether of Speech - Abstractly speaking, the ether of speech could be anything. Is the wind, is the buzzing inside your ears, and is the silence. Is the sound of the environment around you. It's everywhere, is the speech in an abstract form, in its essence, in ether, whatever. On this song I start with the underground train's sound in the background. Those types of trains were something I always wanted to make a song with, since I was a kid. Is a monotone song, but then, is based on a monotone soundscape. The coming and going of the underground, those routes going on circles or re-starting from the final stop, the apathetic thoughts you have in a journey, the way you get lost in your own speech, with the distance.

Luna Llora a Pangea

“Luna” is a word with a beautiful sound and obviously represents so many mystic and cosmos. Pangea or, maybe in English, “Pangaea” (Pan + Gaia) is the name of the land on Earth before the splitting into continents as we know today. “Luna llora a Pangea”, would mean “The moon cries to the old land of the Earth”. In some esoteric teachings they mention that the human spirit originated through ethereal flows from the Moon. Also Pangea has some connections with the theories of Lemuria, one of the hypothetical first lands and civilizations of human-like beings in this planet. So the song is about the Moon crying to the Earth, regarding humanity before and now, with some fairy tales depictions and dreams. The tarot card number XVIII - The Moon - in the traditional esoteric drawing/image/symbolism it shows the Moon crying a river on Earth. Perhaps, it was her cry, that divided the continents, after all.

Death Hunter - As I went back to the beginning, I was then dead… Lose your consciousness. Empty your mind. Disconnect from this planet. Disappear inside yourself. Sparkle your existence... somewhere else. Anywhere, but here. Change your state of mind and the whole universe shifts into something else. Free yourself to exist into any type of reality or manifestation. Sleep again, and I'll rise.

Initial Particle (sound sculpture) – searching for the real Big Bang to put it into sound, I found something else. A very old abstract distortion, shapeless.

Lilith Love – I wanted to write a political song regarding female repression as a world-social issue; instead, in a few moments, it came a whole description of this ancient goddess archetype, for some reason.

Angel's Shoes - The sea waves, the soundscape. Old memories coming from the sea… And a lyric reference regarding the old Chinese tradition of feet bondage in girls.

Nemesis et Felidae - After the explosion, all the beasts came out. A darkened drama. Based on the 8th (or eleventh, depending on the tradition) card of the tarot - The Strength. Or, as in Crowley's deck, Lust. The infinite soul follows the eternal battle in the conscious mind between the animal and the human force - and the values, answers and powers relevant to the decision of balance on this quest vary immensely. Some say the key is courage - some say is love - some say is compassion - some say is truthfulness. Some say the key is self-knowledge. The mystery of the real and enduring strength - that does not necessarily needs to be physical. Spiritual, intellectual and emotional forces are joined for the results of a sum of powers - and weaknesses. Lust & Strength. Through the Maya of illusion in between realms and sensations that deceive - self-control of the mind and the never-ending expansion of the spirit for survival meets an attempt to find a more genuine and truthful... path. "Nemesis" is a theoretical black star whose orbit's relates to the sun - "et Felidae" is Latin for "related to the felines". Through the apocalyptical menagerie of a bestiary... I found what I was looking for.

Medicine Wheel - Wise is the spider, who weaves its destiny through circles of life cycles. This song has many inspirations; an elegy to Robert Smithson's Land Art, and all the other artists following the same trend; the native American medicine wheel; life cycles; spider webs; and the tenth card of the tarot - The Wheel of Fortune. Spiral and circle patterns that follows through life, nature forms, galaxies, destiny's turn-arounds, ouroboros, infinite. The wheel that heals is the circle of the withdrawn and self knowledge. As you reach the end, a different cycle starts; and everything is governed by it, simply following that rhythm. Which is everywhere. Chakras. Orbits of planets. Earth walks.

Deva Meditation - This is a guided meditation. Or, a spoken word art song. It can take both descriptions. Deva, because it follows the elementals sequence of energy transformation. A meditation, as it describes a path to focus, following a western system of five elements sequence.