Saturnia

SATURNIA started off in late `96, founded by multi-instrumentalist Luis Simões. Originally meant to be a free art communal project of several artistic areas such as literature, photography, design, painting and music. Filipe homem and Luis Simões named the project. The name came from the merge between the saturnia butterfly, the planet saturn and saturnalia. This association lasted throughout `97 and out of it came the first SATURNIA demo.
In early `98 SATURNIA turned into a genuine two piece group, with Luis Simões on guitar, sitar, theremin, vocals, gong and programming, and Eduardo Vasconcelos (aka M Strange) on keyboards, out of it came the first SATURNIA cd in early `99, later on M Strange left and his replacement was found in of Vasco Pereira, a space rock synthesist/organist. In 2000 the duo continued to play live. In the summer of 2000 Luis simões and Vasco Pereira divorced and he was replaced on keyboards by Francisco Rebelo. Late 2000 and early 2001 were spent finishing SATURNIA`s second long duration recording which was well received by music critics and was spoted by Cranium music who released it as "The Glitter Odd".
One year later, october 2002, after about twelve months of profound yoga and meditation, the new album titled "Hydrophonic Gardening" got ready, and SATURNIA signed a deal for the new album with italian cult label Mellow records.
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