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Saturnia
12+ albums
space rockPsychedelic RockpsychedelicProgressive rockdowntempo
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There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Saturnia is a psychedelic rock band from Portugal, founded in 1996 by multi-instrumentalist Luis Simões. Originally intended to be a communal art project where friends of several artistic professions such as literature, photography, design and music, would come and input. One of these people was Filipe Homem, then a publicity designer, who, with Luis Simões, named the project. The name came from the merge between several sources: the Saturnia butterfly, the planet Saturn and saturnalia, a natural/ecological, spacey/cosmic and hedonistic concept. This relationship was fruitful and the fusion of music with image was symbiotic. This incidental association lasted throughout 1997 and out of it came the first Saturnia demo. In early 1998 this duo split up friendly due to Simões's interest in pursuing a purely musical direction, that fused psych/prog head music of the seventies with its present day descendant, the electronic drums & bass, jungle and rave culture. (It was in this period that Simões first cooperated with friend bassist Francisco Rebelo both playing live and recording with Cool Hipnoise) Saturnia then turned into a genuine two piece group, with Luis Simões on guitar, sitar, theremin, vocals, gong and programming, and old time friend and musical partner Eduardo Vasconcelos (aka M Strange) on keyboards. This line up brainstormed and out of it came the first proper Saturnia recording in early 1999, unfortunately M Strange's u
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