*100 copies limited edition* Jorge Mantas, under his Druuna Jaguar moniker, returns with a new opus devoted to drone meditations and beyond. Entering the album as a neophyte, a deep descent awaits into a slowly evolving spectral composition for solo Hammond organ. Beneath its apparent simplicity, the attentive listening reveals a hypnotic state of austere beauty. Follows a poem for multi layered cello, prolonging the initial somber tone, but creating more dynamic edges through its acoustic contortions. The third piece is dedicated to the beloved ARP 2600 synthesizer, proposing a constant flux of delicate electronic events, within the general introspective mood. In the final composition, the organ conjures the principle of eternal return: the serpent bites its tail and the circle is closed - we are back to the primeval state of permanent anxiety. The end is the beginning is the eternal creation of beauty and despair.

The title En Transi derives from the cadaver monument tradition, a type of funerary monument to a deceased person particularly characteristic of the Late Middle Ages, when they were designed to remind viewers of the transience and vanity of mortal life, and the eternity and desirability of the Christian after-life. The artist immediately fell under the spell of Michelangelo’s The Dying Slave - and truly inspired by this imagery, and, moreover, by the specific perspective of the sculpture displayed on the cover - he felt compelled to invoke a state of trance through the music. Although the portrait of a dead person, incapable of action and sensation but otherwise remaining what he had been in life, the body of the slave does not exhibit any signs of decay or even excessive emaciation. It actually exhales the vitality of a strange sexual energy to his luxuriant pose.

The artist wishes to express his gratitude to Marta Lucas for introducing him to the beauty of the funerary art of Michelangelo.