Jaloes is a spanish composer of contemporary minimalist music, made with keyboards, computers and software for multi-track recording. Some of his major influences are Wim Mertens, Philip Glass and Yann Tiersen.
His music is sometimes based on repetition, where a melodic pattern is enhanced with a new figure or a small difference that creates a new pattern, and thus gradually. Another aspect of his music is the superposition of several simple patterns to achieve a more elaborate pattern. Some of the key elements in his creative process are melody, repetition, superposition and addition.
In March 2009 Jaloes released the album Weather with original pieces of relaxing music, made with layers of electronic patterns and repetitive piano chords.
He was born in 1967 in AlmerÃa, Spain, where he grew up listening to lots of eclectic and diverse music from progressive rock to new age. In 1985 he moved to Madrid where he studied telecommunication engineering. He is working as an engineer for a living, while learning to play the piano and making and producing his music.
Jaloes also writes a blog about his music and some other music he likes, called A place for instrumental minimalism.
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