A large part of the attraction of working in Cuba was the opportunity to work with percussionist Diego Ruiz, better known as Habichuela. Habichuela is a great musician and thorough professional. He easily assimilates new ideas while contributing his own rare talent, highly-flexible technique, and sabor Cubano into the multifarious ascendancies of the compositions. Habichuela is ever-present and always bang-on. The music on this CD is hard to classify. Its not classical music. Nor is it computer music, jazz, electronica, Cuban, World (if such a thing exists), ethnic or anything else that might be stuffed into a category. Apagon is all of these things and more. Apagon is music that neither one of the composers could have made alone: it is a true collaboration.

Reviews:
'enormous fun to listen to.' (The Wire)

Credits:
Marco Trevisani: Prepared Piano
Michael Edwards: Computer Sound Manipulation
Diego 'Habichuela' Ruiz: Cuban Percussion
Recorded in September 1998 at Laboratorio Nacional de Musica Electroacustica, La Habana, Cuba
Recording sessions engineered by Dario Nunez