David Caballero (Gnomusy)

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.

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.

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.