HHY (sometimes HHY Scumclash) is the main alias for multi-specter instrumentalist and producer Jonathan Uliel Saldanha.

His music is informed by Alchemy, Heavy Bass Pressure, Echo Chamber, Dub, extatic cicles of classical Indian music and Gamelan, ominous soundscapes of John Carpenter, Calliope, Ra, Spectral Choir, Sonic Mayhem and the fervor induced by Voodoo rhythms. 

Under his own name or with other formations HHY shares projects and collaborations and has performed internationally with musicians such: Raz Mesinai (a.k.a. Badawi), Scott Nydegger (from Radon and coproducer of the series U.S.S.), Nyko Ripit (the other menber of Fujako, Wordsound Digital), Steve Mackay (Stooges), Mark Stewart (The Mafia, On-U-Sound) and countless other artists from a wide lexicon of sonic context and geographic location.

Member and producer for Mécanosphère, co-founder of Porto’s dub/beat platform Faca Monstro, HHY also participates of various projects in the Soopa label roster and has since 2008 worked with The Macumbas, an assembled cast of musicians who operate the Sci-fi Voodoo Dub sound, with dense tapestries of subsonic frequencies, horns and bone pressure rhythms.
Saldanha has also worked on several soundtracks (for dance and film) based on induced mental cosmologies and big ensemble composition strategies, one of this sonic works comes of as the release “The Earth As A Floating Egg”.

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