“Pyrophorus is the scientific name of a bioluminescent flying insect typical of Cuba, which is popularly known as Cocuyo. The name is derived from the Greek pyro: fire, and phorus: bearer of.
For many years, since I was still living in Cuba, I have been dreaming of setting up a guitar duo. This format offers great opportunities for expanding the instrument’s own limitations. It has always been my aim that my music would not have a purely guitaristic sound, to avoid limiting myself to the idiomatic characteristics of the instrument and its limitations regarding tessitura, tuning, range and technical possibilities. This is why, in my writing, I have tried to create the auditive illusion of more than two guitars, and I have created two percussion boxes, Pyrobox and Shake, which are both played with the feet. In addition, I make use of scordaturas, pizzicatos, slide, sordina, and percussion effects through the guitar or voice, sometimes imitating the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals or toms from the drum set.