Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

If you're in to melt yourself down, you're gonna love this
Mary Anne Hobbs | BBC Radio 6

Hailing from Porto, HHY & The Macumbas is an ensemble comprised of bass, brass, percussion and electronics, written and dubbed by producer Jonathan Uliel Saldanha aka HHY.

Comprising an ever-mutating ensemble of musicians from the Portuguese underground music scene, The Macumbas range from five to ten players on stage, presenting frantic and enigmatic live shows, between the film works of Kenneth Anger, the dubbing of Sherwood, the Portuguese melancholic marching bands, as well as the raw trance-inducing rhythms of Haiti. Their debut album, Throat Permission Cut, is a five track piece that captures the space-age voodoo turbulence of this oblique and one of a kind horde.