Volaverunt is based on the master painter Francisco Goya's print series Los Caprichos. “Ya Es Hora” begins with lamenting horns and tip-tapping percussion, quickly giving way to Eva Lootz's spoken words. Strings lazily bow underneath, squeaking as they ebb in and out of rhythm. It's fractured and sparse until Eva's voice returns and devolves into a series of sound effects. Later she engages with the bass in a duel that features such amazing unison lines that it's either tightly composed or a truly heroic display of improvisational facility. Finally the horns return, brief and frenzied, signaling the other musicians to join in a full-scale blowout of ensemble interplay closer to free jazz.

“Soplones” opens with fluttering, screeching bass clarinet and prepared piano innards. Solemn emotions emerge with fingered and barely blown woodwinds mingling with vibrating piano wires. Like Goya's print of the same name, it's foreboding and sinister. “Autorretrato “, which ironically means “self portrait” in Spanish, explodes with muted traps punching out cells of time via toms and hi hat. This is a masterful percussion solo that builds to a boil in several movements before receding to a simmer... a melee of broken meter punctuated by spectral cymbals and low resonating tones.. The title track “Volavurent” glides in gracefully with sustained contemplative drones smearing dissonance at will. “Unos A Otros” begins with fragmented piano chords and sustained horn notes hanging at different angles. The crashing chords dance with strings and insistent, deep woodwinds, culminating in giant chords and drones; the woodwinds returns with a more scattered approach, with freely blowing sax riding atop. The piece is composed of several short movements that seem to end the record on an unresolved note. Goya's prints were made in the 1700s as a comment on the then-current Spanish society, and Tabuenca's interpretations do the artists' critiques justice in the modern era. Highly recommended if you are a fan of percussion music and exploratory vocal music.