Fire is what Josu De Solaun shed with his improvisations to the audience of the City of León Auditorium on 13 March 2021. It was an exceptional concert in which improvisations full of warmth and light now have a second life thanks to this album. panDEMiCity is the musical document - the still photo - of a unique event, an unprecedented hic et nunc in the artistic career of the great pianist born in Valencia and raised in New York. Undoubtedly, this is a milestone which makes Josu De Solaun an essential demiurge of the current world improvisation scene. De Solaun’s exuberant idiomaticism, his vast musical background, provokes vertigo in the listener. De Solaun not only pays a moving tribute to Keith Jarrett, but also visits and inhabits the music of numerous composers who have been nesting in his prodigious fingers for decades, such as his favourite composers: Schumann, Janáček, Bartók, Chopin, Brahms, Enescu, Carter, Liszt or Debussy, 20th-century and interwar music, music close to Russian composers such as Shostakovich, but, above all, jazz, always jazz, because for Josu De Solaun this music is his “link with popular music, folklore… Jazz has very strong vernacular roots and this music keeps me with my feet on the ground, in the atavistic, in the ancestral”.

Josu De Solaun has been hailed by the international press for his “poetic sense of sound, artistic vision and brilliant virtuoso skills, entirely at the service of the works being performed” (Nikolaus Frey, Fuldaer Zeitung). He is an extraordinarily prolific pianist-composer performing in many of the world’s most celebrated halls as concerto soloist, chamber musician, solo piano recitalist and solo improviser and composer.