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Now Swim

By Filipa Santos ~ Miguel Moreira

Label: Ouvido Falido
Released: 2026
Track listing: Saxofone Marítimo; Float; Bridge; Cosmic Ship; Limnology; Rei das Nuvens; Leeway; Dissolving; Experienced (bonus track).

Filipa Santos ~ Miguel Moreira: Now Swim

by Don Ball
June 13, 2026

Atmospheric does not begin to describe Filipa Santos and Miguel Moreira's recording Now Swim. The music emits from another dimension, a soundtrack from the bottom of the ocean: exotic and dense, weird and abrasive, soothing and lulling, often simultaneously. Santos' saxophone, flute and voice are often unearthly, being manipulated electronically and creating an eerie, ...

Filipa Santos ~ Miguel Moreira

"Over more than ten years of collaboration, Filipa Santos and Miguel Moreira have developed not only performative complicity, but a system of shared listening that transcends the logic of call-and-response. What is heard here is an open formal ontological morphology: the structures are neither predetermined nor narratively teleological; they emerge through the accumulation and transformation of spectral densities. Two bodies, one common vibratory field."

"The album title condenses its philosophical dimension.
Now Swim.
Swimming implies accepting instability