Toni
Castells is a musician, composer and artist based in London.
“The
obvious reference to describe Toni’s music is: Morricone meets Satie.
Morricone comes to mind because there is a cinematic vividness to Toni’s
music that like his, exudes expanse and distance.
It’s dramatic and seems to come from distant times and places. Satie
because there is a certain painful nostalgia.
Other obvious names are Gorecki and Philip Glass, but these are perhaps too
simplistic and obvious
and have to do mostly with the use of operatic voices singing vocalaises.
Reynaldo Hahn is also relevant, because unlike Satie, he was a more sophisticated
cultivator of melancholy
and frankly, more serious as a composer.”
Michael Haas, multi Grammy Award winning classical producer
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