Phantone

Angélica Salvi

ALBUM

In Phantone Angélica Salvi presents herself solo for the first time, refining a language of her own through which she seeks freedom in structure. Drawing illusions of sound, shadows, figures, meditation and abstract landscapes, her music explores the imaginary and dreamlike hearing spaces where order and chaos coexist. The LP was recorded in the Rendufe Monastery as part of the event Encontrarte in Amares, Portugal, taking advantage of the juxtapositions, delays and reverbs of the hall, and thus adding depth to the seven compositions that make the album.

“Salvi invites the audience to delve into their own emotional and spiritual references, using them as the script of a dream. Starting from the very activity of breathing (inhaling and exhaling) and from tide dynamics, Salvi explores the universe of repetition in a cosmic and structured invocation of trance through a magnetic and syncopated movement. In this dreamlike and intimate journey, the audience is guided by winding and tropical paths, by ambiguous and multi-faceted sonorities from Papé Nziengui to Alice Coltrande, which offers a potentially shamanic experience.” Cristiano Costa.

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LISTEN

The title “Phantone” is a wordplay that shows the intentions of Angélica Salvi’s authentic and free musical pieces. A wordplay where there’s no play, the association between “pantone”, “phantom” and “tone” builds the composer’s knowledge and ideas about improvisation and electroacustic and experimental music. Recorded during the Encontrarte in Amares, on the Rendufe Monastery, the album seeks the freedom of sound and a way for it to inhabit a space with multiple meanings and references to different paths.

The concert hall allowed Angélica Salvi to work with delays, juxtapositions, echoes and reverbs, creating elastic sounds that coexist in harmony throughout “Phantone”. If there’s something haunting dwelling on her music it’s because the listener is searching for it, connecting the dots/sensations triggered by each track.

The “phantom” that exists on the seven tracks of “Phantone” it’s very real, but less formal than one would imagine. More of an assertion than a presence, whether in the imaginary places of Salvi’s music or in the concrete effects that recording in the monastery produced in her music. We can feel Angélica Salvi elevated as a composer/solo, using her harp like a magic wand that controls time and space and the listeners senses. Music that one can read, hear, smell, feel and taste. (Text by André Santos)

This work was ranked by Time Out magazine as the third 2019’s best album, one of the top 20 national albums of the same year by “Community of Culture and Art”, one of the best albums recorded in 2019 according to “Antena 3/RTP” and one of the 2019’s featured albums of the newspaper “Ípsilon”.

REVIEWS

“Angélica Salvi’s harp is worth more than a thousand words”

Publico.pt

“Enchanting, circular, hypnotic music, with something peaceful, hard to pin down due to such uniqueness. It’s not contemporary music, electroacoustic, improvised nor background folk, but a little of all that, with Salvi, the harp and some electronic effects bringing us back to a reinvigorating journey.”

Publico.pt

“This is redeeming music, music that saves us, that makes us keep resisting and going on. There are people who have this ability of bringing us back to the path and we should listen to what they have to say.”

Jazz.pt

CREDITS

Harpa/Electrónica e Composição: Angélica Salvi
Assistente de Composição: Fátima Fonte
Produção: Alexandre Soares

Gravação e Mistura: José Arantes

Masterização: Miguel Pinheiro Marques

Fotografia: Frederico Lobo

Design: Sérgio Couto

Main Picture: Renato Cruz