Saturnia "Stranded in the Green"

Country: Portugal
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Sulatron Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: March 26, 2021
Tracklist

1. Pan Arrives (1:26) 

2. Keep It Long (7:12) 

3. Fibonacci Numbers (4:49) 

4. Smoking In The Sun (7:13) 

5. Super Natural (13:58) 

6. When I'm High (3:44) 

7. Perfectly Lonely (not on vinyl) 

8. Butterfly Collector (7:44) 

9. Just Let Yourself Go (not on vinyl) (6:09) 

Line-up

Luís Simões: vocals, guitars, sitar, tampura, bass, bass pedals, gong, organs, synthesizer, Rhodes piano, Mellotron, chimes and drums

Ana Vitorino: spoken word (1)

Winga: djembe (2)

Description/Reviews:

After a brief interlude of psychedelic cow bells on ‘Pan Arrives’, the lengthy ‘Keep It Long’ is heralded in, swirling, spacey synths, sitar, Djembe, Mellotron and backwards guitars dance around each other creating a dense African accented, Eastern flavoured space rock song which is most appealing. ‘Fibonacci Numbers’, follows this, It’s an entirely different beast, informed by patterns found in nature; it’s a slow languid song which drifts along quite pleasantly. ‘Smoking In The Sun’, slowly unfurls into a cosmic dream. Then we arrive at a three part nature infused song entitled ‘Super Natural’ in the first part the gods of Bacchus, Ra and Varitus are celebrated, with much birdsong and backwards guitar before we drift off into an endless meadow suffused with plenty of ’tron concluding with the spacey bubbling lilt of intelligent light, a terrific suite of songs.

Read the full review by Andrew Young at terrascope.co.uk

Also read the review at theobelisk.net

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