Tunnel Vision
2016, 12” Vinyl LP and digital format, by SILO RUMOR, distributed by Cargo UK

team:
Featuring: João Pais Filipe / Álvaro Almeida / Rui Leal / Gustavo Costa / Catarina Miranda / Jessika Kenney / Mike Ladd; Recorded and mixed by Jonathan Saldanha; Master and lacquer cut by Frédéric Alstadt at Ångstrom Studio, Brussels; Massive thanks: Eyvind Kang;
Tunnel Vision
This sonic piece brings together an interstitial realm of generative choirs, gestual percussion, reminiscences of fanfarre music and resonant spaces interacting with disembodied voices. It was recorded in tunnels and cavities found in and around the city of Porto, and was mixed as a dub record set for a soundsystem of the future, in a process referred to as Skull–Cave–Echo.
Tunnel Vision is a re-edit and remastered version of the original soundtrack scored and recorded for the experimental sci-fi film Tunnel Vision, directed by Raz Mesinai and released on Tzadik DVD Series. The film comprised of shots taken on tunnels and subterraneans in a particular post-apocalitic hyper modernism was co-produced by John Zorn, who called it a “21st Century Cult Classic”.
THE QUIETUS
"Saldanha's mastery of how to manipulate acoustic space comes to resemble something approximating necromancy (…) It is the highlight of the festival and delivers on everything that Semibreve, with its dedication to forward-thinking art and challenging methods of expression, promises." Review of show at Semibreve Festival.
http://thequietus.com/articles/21446-semibreve-festival-review-kara-lis-coverdale-laurel-halo-oliver-coates
THUMP
"Happily Portuguese experimentalist Jonathan Uliel Saldanha was on hand to rescue things with one of the most astonishing sets I've ever witnessed (…) It was the exact tonic we needed after the onanism that had marred the earlier section of the evening." Review of show at Semibreve Festival.
https://thump2.vice.com/en_uk/article/semibreve-festival-portugal-review-ron-morelli-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith (Link not active)
THE QUIETUS
Interview regarding the release of Tunnel Vision.
http://thequietus.com/articles/21196-hhy-interview
EXCLAIM
Review of Tunnel Vision
THUMP
"Lose Yourself in the Cavaties of Porto with One of the Year's Best Avant-Garde LPs."
https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/track/lose-yourself-in-the-cavaties-of-porto-with-one-of-the-years-best-avant-garde-lps
XLR8R
Featured Download
https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/08/jonathan-uliel-saldanha-train-tunnel-crane-dub/
THE FORMANT
Interview regarding the release of Tunnel Vision.
GERMANY’S NATIONAL RADIO FOR CULTURE
Special Broadcast
http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/sondersendung-der-tunnel-als-kulturthema.2156.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=355821
WAV MAGAZINE
Review of Tunnel Vision
http://www.wavmagazine.net/reviews/jonathan-uliel-saldanha-tunnel-vision/