The Earth As A Floating Egg
CD, 2010
team:
Featuring: Álvaro Almeida - trumpet, Filipe Silva - acoustic guitar, João Filipe - drums, João Martins - saxophone, Jonathan U Saldanha - percussion, euphonium, flutes, keys, programing, objects and processings, Henrique Fernandes - double bass, Luisa Brandão - voice, Rui Leal - double bass; Recorded: Doom Dub Studio (Porto) and mixed at Silent Block Studio (Brussels) by Jonathan U Saldanha; Mastered: Angstrom (Brussels) by Fréderic Alstadt; Artwork: Jonathan U Saldanha, Dário Cannatá and Dayana Lucas.
Electrostatic soundscapes superimposed with the evocative qualities of operatic singing.
Spectral mass where brass clusters, choirs and strings, performed by an assembled cast of Porto’s most prominent musicians, are arranged and reconfigured by multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonathan Uliel Saldanha.
There's a particular taste in the combination of the sacred (the radicalism of certain electro-acoustic experimentations) with the profane (some settings in a deliberately Grand Guignol style reminiscent of Scorn)(...) the result of a lucid control of sound and of a vast imagination.
Massimiliano Busti - Blow Up Magazine
A voluminous epic is created in which alienation is central.
Hans van der Linden - Kindamuzik
A mystery that grows denser with every track.
Rui Dinis - A Trompa