GNOMUSY is a compound word out of Gnome and Music. Surprisingly it has a meaning in Greek, as my good friend Christos Karavitis told me recently: gnome is “opinion, way of thinking” (the verb gnomi means “to know”) and “muses” is in regard to the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, out of whose Euterpe presided over the liberal art of music. Hence, Gnomusy could mean “the way of thinking about music”. Weird, indeed, as I was just looking for a strange nick to facilitate search of links over Internet using browsers like Google! The subtitle 94-04 indicates the period 1994 to 2004 in which I composed these tracks.

The word "industry" is steadily losing meaning here. Composers and audience are already connected through huge, fast and dynamic alternative channels. Both together create communities around music, and other arts as well. It is the time of Community Building and Joint Experience-Sharing through Universal Scenarios. Who needs an industry? Listeners and artists must, however, get to a win-win agreement sooner or later, otherwise both are condemned to extinction. Besides, I believe that nowadays there's no need of physical media to hold the music, again this cannot be an "industry". But I firmly believe in the good will of audience and deeply understand that all this number is part of an unprecedented revolution and a conclusive act of rebelliousness.

I doubt that a major should contract me in the way we knew, I doubt that a major should even survive as we once understood, by the moment I prefer to fly on my own. However I'd love to be part of a BSO production of some kind of epic fantasy movie or documentals about ancient cultures and nature.

I started playing music at the age of 7 on a reliable Farfisa domestic organ. I studied in the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Spain, an continued self-teaching over the years. My first instruments after the organ, were piano, harmonic, Andinian flutes, mandolin, bluegrass banjo, acoustic guitar and some percussion instruments. I went through andinian, jazz, ragtime, bluegrass, folk and Celt music, in parallel to classic pipe organ and piano learning. In 1993 I bought a Korg X3 and in 1996 published the first song in Internet. In 1999 I published Alexandra and other songs in mp3.com and obtained more than 2 million downloads, several D.A.M. albums sold and a good portion of royalties per download. With that income I set-up a digital studio which is what I have now. I basically play keyboards and program computers, now that today we have a tremendous power in the form of musical software. I keep on exploring new ways of communicating experiences and composing and performing music, including semi-algorithmic composing through programming. I’m open to any good innovation, but always subject to good taste, for the sake of beauty.

Mike Oldfield, Loreena Mc Kennit, Enya, many Andinian bands, some Celtic bands, Clannad, Capercaille, classical influences from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, and many others, ragtime composers, bluegrass banjo players, electronica such as Jarre, Froesse, Vangelis, Pat O'Hearn, Bassic, Greek music such as Manos Xatzidakis, Ioannis Papadakis and many singers with traditional music influenced in harmony structures, such as Xaris Alexeiou or Elefteria Arbanitaki ... to be honest, an endless list!

I feel confortable in the studio, but may I confess I love to fly and discover new places, specially forests in the mountain surrounded by mist.

Kurzweil K2500, Roland XV3080, Korg Triton, Korg X3, Novation Supernova II, Lexicon MPX500, Steinberg Nuendo, plug-ins effects and instruments, Event 20/20 monitors and Houston controller.

17 of my best tracks done from 1993 to 2004 are compiled in my new album "Ethereality" (2004), published in Spain by Non Profit Music and in USA by Only New Age Music. All (100%) of sales benefits go directly to Doctors Without Borders in Spain. Although this album is copy-free, may I suggest to buy it to contribute to this enterprise, for the sake of humankind welfare. I will thank you forever and will keep me on writing new music for you. In Spain you find them in Medicos Sin Fronteras offices (i.e. c/ Princesa 31 in Madrid), in Resistencia (http://www.resistencia.es). In USA through Only New Age Music (http://www.newagemusic.com) and Amazon. Soon in your specific New Age shops and the main stream outlets.