Tracks:

Caminos
Lo Más Sublime
Mercedes (Dedicated to Mercedes González)
Double Rainbow
Son (Para Al Alma Divertir)
Laberintos
Sueño
Patakín (Story)

Motion

“Virelles' music embraces the harmonic and rhythmic complexities that were born with bebop and these constantly rub together with Cuban music. Sparks fly and the result is a marvelous amalgam of fiery sound that tantalizes in much the same way as saxophonist Wayne Shorter's music does. "Lo Más Sublime" is an outstanding example. The harmonies shift together with the rhythmic base of the piece and here Virelles succeeds in creating a new harmonic vocabulary that emerges as if by magic from the melody that is constantly implied through rhythmic invention. Virelles' solo and one by Mark Turner tower above the architecture of the song. It is almost Coltranesque!

"Mercedes," Virelles' musical tribute to his mother, a fine symphonic flautist, is deeply introspective and as tender a ballad that you will ever hear this side of a Cuban sunset. Its melody features a structural descent in its tonal palette that is awash with Turner's magnificent playing off that melody as he and Virelles swap choruses. Intertwined with Deniz's alto saxophone, the music reaches Ellingtonian proportions in its tonal color and texture.

On "Laberintos," after a superb pianistic statement of the melodic and harmonic invention, Virelles' father Aquiles' voice soars with a combination of mystic beauty as both question the labyrinthine nature of human existence. But lest it seem that the music is all cerebral, it bears mention that it is impossible to keep one's feet from tapping to the ever-changing rhythms—"Son" and "Sueño" are typical—before you are returned to an epic narrative, "Patakín," that also features Celso Machado's gimbri and idiosyncratic vocal, before launching into a spectacular (Yoruban) musical expedition into the heart of the "story of the gods," once again featuring Turner's magnificent tenor exchanging harmonic narration for the melodic adventure of Virelles' piano.”

- Raul d'Gama Rose , AllAboutJazz

David Virelles: piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, chanting
Luis Deniz: alto saxophone
Devon Henderson: bass
Ethan Ardelli: drums
Luis Obregoso: congas, batajó, cajón, minor percussion, chanting
Mark Turner: tenor saxophone (2, 3, 8)
Celso Machado: voice and gimbri (8)
José Aquiles: voice (6)
Pablosky Rosales: tres guitar (5)