Growing up as a singer, composer and poet in New York, London

and Lisbon, Catarina was eager to develop a more electronic sounding album, and to explore various production techniques, from sampling to sound synthesis. She had in her mindset a new concept of spoken word, where melodies would freely invade the poems and infuse into them, to an almost song format. Catarina Santos invited Óscar Graça (keyboards/synths), Luís Candeias (drums), Hugo Antunes (electric bass)  and André Pinheiro aka Apache (programming) to create the live version of UNTAMED, Catarina's studio album, recorded in London during 2017.

     Breaking through conventions and styles, she assumes in this project her immigration experience and her own estrangement with her culture as a motif. The poems are „cultural artefacts” that mirror a practice of disidentification from the familiar. This practice marks the beginning of nomadic wisdom. Nomadism as critical consciousness that resists settling into socially coded modes of thought and behavior. Add collage infused structures, hip hop culture, jazz liberties and plenty of creativity as a live band. Breaking through. MAD NOMAD