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SATURNIA started off in late 1996, 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 after the saturnia butterfly, the planet saturn and saturnalia.
In early 1998 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 their debut in early 1999, later on M
Strange left a ...read more
SATURNIA started off in late 1996, 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 after the saturnia butterfly, the planet saturn and saturnalia.
In early 1998 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 their debut in early 1999, 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 and 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 LP which was well received by music critics and was
spotted by Cranium music who released it as "The Glitter Odd". « hide |
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