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Once again I've felt inspired to improvise at the piano after seeing a painting. This time the source of the inspiration is "Not To Be Reproduced" by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. I see this image as the attempt of an inner analysis, an introspective journey in which the man looking at the mirror is trying to find his true self, but is scared that he might not like what he'll see, so he keeps turning his own back at himself, hiding his real face. This image instilled me with a sense of uneasiness and angst which immediately made me think about Erik Satie's compositions, whose influence might be easily recognizable in my notes, especially his Gnossiennes, but also his Gymnopedies in some instances. The harmonic structure, oddly enough, is largely based on a sort of contrafact of the jazz tune "Blue Bossa" by Kenny Dorham, where the quality of most chords is converted to MinMaj7th or Dim7.