Momo - Toni Castells

Toni Castells is a one-time classical musician based in London who after starting his first pop band at the age of 12, has been since experimenting and fusing classical music with popular, electronic and other commercial genres of music. Toni naturally combines unlikely musical elements, creating a truly unique sound and musical language, which inspired by some of the best classical and film composers, is easily accessible for an extremely wide audience.



According to Grammy award winning classical producer Michael Haas, “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.”