On the compositions & improvisations

1. Push
This track is inspired by the Vegetative Invertebrate Circuit No. 1.
About the bio-survival level during infancy. Basic attitude of trust or suspicion, the infantile fear & love. There is just one movement here: forward & survive. This track does.

2. Beat The Drum
This track is inspired by the Emotional-Locomotion Circuit No. 2
About the metamorphosis from crawling to walking. When the child begins to move around and leverage emotional power over others. When stimulated it triggers dominant, aggressive behavior or submissive, cooperative behavior. The driving 12/8 feel and the melodies fitting into that beat evoke that energetic feel I get from that circuit.

3. Dance The Monolith
This track is inspired by the Laryngeal-Manual Symbolic Circuit No. 3
On our modes of artifact-manufacture and conceptual thought. Building a mental map. This is what that tune does. It starts off with just a little melodic cell and developing it further building an architectural structure.

4. Lust
This track is inspired by the Socio-Sexual Domestication Circuit No. 4
The fourth circuit kicks in with the production of sex hormones and concerns the orientation towards socio-sexual roles. This track is about Lust. Celebrating live while being very dominant, full of energy and having fun!

5. Relax And Flow
For Hermento, John and Paul
After the fourth track we need some relaxation right? It is inspired by John Lennon/Paul Mc Carney’s tune ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’.
It borrows its beat from Yusef Lateef’s ‘Nile Valley Blues’ and also contains hints of Hermento Pascoal’s ‘El Uovo’.

6. Bring Delight
This track is inspired by the Neurosomatic Circuit No. 5
Circuit No 5 is designed to be used in zero-gravity and is about reprogramming previous mistrust or constraints to adopt a looser, more adaptive perspective. A hedonic turn-on occurs, a rapturous amusement. I tried to capture the joyous quality and lightness – as if flying – as well as to have this ‘human’ element in there.

7. Consciousness
This track is inspired by the Neuroelectric Circuit No. 6
Circuit No. 6 is about recognizing the synchronicity of all phenomena. It makes communication with ‘Higher Intelligences’ possible. The mysterious quality of this drum feature and the fact that drums function as morse-code was the inspiration from this circuit.

8. Isabel
For Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre
Since starting gigging with our trio this tune made part of our repertoire. Isabel was a female artist and activist who got murdered by a femicide in January 2020. I felt sad and furious hearing about her horrible and unnecessary death. This composition reflects the sweetness and bouncy energy of Isabel but also sadness and love.

9. Up!
This track is inspired by the Neurogenetic Circuit No. 7
About DNA memory coiling back to the dawn of life. Evolutionary forecast to immortality and interspecies symbiosis. People are now traveling to other worlds. Transcendence is no longer a metaphysical concept. It has become reality. The fast forward beat, it’s energy and the excessive use of the whole-tone scale follow this feeling of energetic excitement of an ‘up’ movement.

10. Trance Out
This track is inspired by the Neuro-Atomic Metaphysiology Circuit No. 8
The goal of this neuro-circuit is nothing less than fusion with galactic and quantum consciousness. Leary writes “We expect that humanity will be instructed in the reception of nuclear signals by higher intelligences after leaving the planet.” The two melody lines and repetitive parts in this composition were inspired by this. I felt that especially the sound of the Indian Bansuri and little use of sound effect fit this circuit well.

Trance Out has also been recorded during Corona in duet with Zack Lober for the immersive theaterplay ‘June, Taipei, Taiwan.