The Earth as a Floating Egg (CD)
by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

The Earth As A Floating Egg is the development of a soundtrack created for a performance piece featuring live and recorded music, and also an onstage female opera singer.

Sonically, the mood is of an eerie futuristic classicism, with electronic soundscapes superimposed with the antique qualities of operatic singing, western orchestral instrumentation, and acoustic guitar, performed by a cast of assembled musicians under Jonathan Uliel Saldanha's direction, and subsequently arranged and reconfigured by the composer's studio alchemy.

As the record progresses, an ineffable, non-literary narrative unfolds, drawing from the more sombre elements of ancient Roman, Finnish and Babylonian mythologies, where nymphs, prophets, and ever-present ominous birds all revolve in an illusionist's stage distorted by infinite mirrors.

Tracklisting:

• 1. Ornithos Haruspex (The Illusionist)
• 2. Nyx
• 3. Chasm
• 4. Rumor Is Listening (In Verto)
• 5. The Fall Of Lintukoto (Autophagia)
• 6. Ilmatar (Threnody)
• 7. Ereshkigal (She Is)
• 8. Transmuted
• 9. The Light Air Flew Up And Became Sky, And The Heavy Air Sank Down And Became Earth (Orogenesis)
• 10. The Concealer (Calypso)