Our most international and prolific audio-artist has been developing from 1983 (under the name EL INTERNADO at the beginning, and then with his own name) a personal and not transferable discourse very far from the habitual standards in soundscape, the field where the artist from Madrid seems to fit the best. Well known for a long time for his works inspired in the invertebrates (the fact that he is a biologist marked the themes on his first works) and also for his sonorous portraits of many cities in the World, López created the label "Concrete Absolute Music" to refer to his own way of understanding the sonorous fact, that is, removing the sounds from their original sources (the original idea of Concretism, patrimony of Pierre Schaeffer) and considering his music under a perspective in the margin of any symbolic or figurative association. This is a rigorous search of the essential matter in both philosophical and aesthetic fields, and it is made clear in his recordings (of a Spartan austerity) as well as in his concerts, which are always carried out in the obscurity in order not to deviate our attention from the music (because, as López says "it does not need any additive for having all the worth it already possess by itself.../... I don't want to obtain anything if I don't do it just with my music"). Neither ambient nor isolationism: abyssal music to be deeply listened.

Jesús Brotons.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:

• Crustoceanium (K7, Línea Alternativa)
• Azoic Zone (CD, Geometrik, 1993)
• Tonhaus (CD, Hyades Arts, 1994)
• Qal’at Abd’al Salam / O Parladoiro Desamortuxado (CD, Línea Alternativa,1995)
• Warszawa Restaurant (CD, Trente Oiseaux, 1996)
• Belle Confusion 966 (CD, Trente Oiseaux, 1996)
• Belle Confusion 969 (CD, Sonoris, 1996)
• Untitled Single Piece #1 (7", Drone Records, 1996)
• Untitled Music For Geography (CD, Trente Oiseaux, 1998)
• Temizlemek (2CD, Línea Alternativa, 1998)
• La Selva (CD, V2 Archief, 1999)
• Untitled #89 (CD, OR, 1999)

"Deep sounds without preservings and colourings, perfect for the subconscious' immersion into the deepest black hole.../... Neither ambient nor isolationism, this music goes far beyond it." (Udo Látex - SELF).

"A crescendo constructed by means of rustic sounds electronically distorted.../... Only, the final silence makes us realise about the auditory violence we were submitted to." (Pundonor - SELF)

"The most intense and elementary ambient work I've ever heard"' (Scientifica Intercosmo, Germany)

"A truly (awe-)inspiring experience of boundless sonic depth" (Experimental Musical Instruments, USA)

"The complete vanishing of any comfortability; an existential thread" (ZAP, Germany)

"The new loverboy of intelligent noisists" (Vital, The Netherlands)

"He makes you find the music, and rewards you well with rich and utterly unique sound once you do" (Intransitive, USA)

"Iconoclastic and lucid" (Dude, Spain)

"He sharpens both the perception of space and the sense of hearing" (Karbon, Switzerland)

"López is playing on the keyboard of silence" (Bad Alchemy, USA)

"This donisis will change your view on what music could be" (Drone, Germany)