eMotive

eMotive is a refreshing album. Or should we call it a concept?

Non Profit Music is a record company based in Spain that donates all of its profits to humanitarian causes, primarily the international medical emergency relief organization Doctors Without Borders (Medicos sin Fronteras). - Making Music - Saving Lives!!

Musicians from the four Spanish musicians, Jorge Grundman, David Caballero, Eduardo Laguillo and Joaquin Taboada, utilize a wide variety of sounds and instrumentations.

Jorge Grundman is a New Age and Classical composer who was born in Madrid, Spain.  He began to compose at the age of fourteen.  He studied piano, music theory and choir at the Royal Advanced Conservatory of Music in Madrid.  He is now a Professor at the Politechnical University of Madrid where he teaches audio- and post-production.  While teaching at the University he composed the renowned "Los hijos del frío" ("The sons of the cold"), which was released digitally on mp3.com in January 2001, becoming one of the most famous electronic tunes of this Internet site. The tune was #1 for 27 times on their New Age chart, remained on their Top 40 chart for six months and had more than 1.5 million downloads.  Grundman was a finalist for New Age Retailer magazine’s prestigious Narcissus Award, and his We are the forthcoming past, take care of it was also nominated as Best Instrumental Album of 2004 by New Age Reporter.



David Caballero records under the name Gnomusy (Gnome of music).  A composer from Madrid, he has made it his goal to express all his major experiences in life through his music.  After several years of classical music education at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, David developed interest in some other styles, such as Andenian (music from the Andes), jazz, ragtime, bluegrass, electronic and folk.  Since 1993, David has devoted part of his time to studying synthesizers and sampler sequencing with computers. In 1999, David released some music pieces as Gnomusy on the mp3.com site and obtained great success and worldwide exposure.  He had over two-million downloads.  Since then, a number of his compositions have reached #1 on the mp3.com New Age chart and also made the site’s Top 40 list which spread his music around the world.



Joaquin Taboada is a piano teacher and Professor of Music and Accompaniment in Navarra, Spain. As a composer, he participated in the Second Festival of New Music in San Sebastian, together with Michael Nyman and other well known composers. He also has been a member of several diverse musical groups spanning pop and classical.  After several years dedicated to studying and composing, and to his work as a teacher, in 2001 he decided to record some of his earlier compositions under the title Música Vespertina (Evening Music).  The CD was released on mp3.com in May 2002.  He also founded the band "Stultifera Navis," in order to present his music in concert.  The songs "Alas (Wings)," "Calma (Stillness)” and "Lluvia (Over the Window Glass)” have all reached #1 on the mp3.com charts. In September 2002 on mp3.com, he released Jardin de Santos, music from a multimedia project for the botanical garden of the same name, located in Alicante, Spain.  In addition, "Perspectiva de un invernadero" rose to #1 on the European Classical Music charts.



Eduardo Laguillo is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer educated in classical music the HigherMusic School of Vienna. He studied jazz at Aula de Música Moderna in Barcelona, among others.  He has devoted much of his time to the studies of East-Indian music and explores the healing properties as well as other spiritual dimensions of music.  He developed his professional career as a composer of diverse works for piano, choir, string quartets, chamber orchestra and grand orchestra as well as jazz, pop music and fusion. He has performed in numerous concerts with the Eduardo Laguillo Ensemble and with his own rock and pop bands. He created the Taxi Records Label in 1990 for the production and promotion of unknown high-quality Spanish music. On his three albums -- Hay algo en el aire (1991), Manoa (1997) and Ya Wadud (2006), Laguillo displays an exquisite and very special talent to express feelings and provides new dimensions of musical expressions. He joined the NPM project in 2006

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