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Release Date
18 May 2000
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Length
2 tracks
The CD-S «Lluvia de Mayo» (in English: «Rain Of May») collects two of
the earliest compositions of José Travieso, having both of them
a common thing: each one was written in two times during two
different periods.
The first one, which gives title to the CD-S and it was subtitled as
«Romantic Poem, No. 2» (the No. 1 was written previously but never
released), shows some of José Travieso's earliest and elaborated ideas
for piano chasing a romantic aesthetic. Part of this piece was
written in May of 1995 (until the minute 2:18), being its origin
mainly improvisational, but it never was finished then and it was
abandoned because looking for other new projects… during years!
In May of 2000, José Travieso -in one of his most produtive moments-
decided not to wait more and to finish the track. So, after this
2:18 minute he decided to write a musical development, using elements
of «sporadic music» (influenced of course by the pieces recorded
a few months ago: the «Essays on Sporadic Music»; and all their
innovative ideas). After this interesting musical development, the
next calm and relaxing part was just an spontaneous improvisation
for it, finishing with a simple coda written previous and specifily
to finish this track…
The name of the piece, «Rain of May», isn't a caprice. In 2001
José Travieso wrote: "My «Romantic Poem No. 2» begins as the
andalusian rain in May, growing since the nothing and getting
fastly strong, through a joyful, unprejuicided and neo-romantic
piece. In the same way that it begins, later the rain and the music
will go disappearing suddenly, but with slowness, until not to
exist… Just as usually it's raining here in May".
The first version of the second track, «El Juego de las Atracciones»
(«The Game of Attractions»), was written during a hot night of summer
of 1998 where José Travieso couldn't sleep normally. That night he
decided to kill the time writing an musical excercise based in
some rules of composition previously defined. The result was a
brief and minimalist (but progressive) piece of 50-60 seconds for
three keyboards… fast, energic and based in tonal and modal
attractions, with elements of «sporadic» and «retrogade music»
(this last one is doing music with the inversion of musical motives,
phrases and passages), as much as a typical style with arpeggios…
Later, in May of 2000, José Travieso made a more sporadic, long and
complex revision, influenced again by the previous «sporadic essays»
of December of 1999. This revision was the final track, recorded here.
Originally this CD-S was released as advance of an album debut then
to release and called «Tres Series de Tres» («Three Series of Three»).
It was called so because to collect the romantic poems no. 1, no. 2
and no. 3 (this last not written then), the previous essays on
sporadic music no. 1, no. 2 and no. 3 and a piece of 20 minutes
divided in three movements dedicated to Philip Glass. Finally this
album wasn't release and this last piece was never recorded. In
2006 José Travieso wrote: «I made a mistake. Then I had to record
all this stuff and to release that album. The piece inspired and
dedicated to Philip Glass was beautiful and interesting, but I
abandoned it. Today I would like to listen it, but I can't… I don't
remember how to play the most of it!… The worst is that I did this
with a dozen of pieces more!".
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