TECHNOLORGY is the 8th album by the Brazilian indie rock band ACIDENTE, re-released in 2014

Presentation

The first ACIDENTE was a basic rock 'n' roll founded in 1978. During the 80s, they released 3 independent records (posteriorly aggregated on the CD "Rock", Stolen 6), but couldn't bear the major labels' harrassment, splitting up in 1987. This second namesake group was not in any case a reincarnation, but the way producer/keyboardist Paulo Malaria (Paulo Izecksohn) found to reuse an already registered and somewhat known name.

From 1989 on, ACIDENTE would follow three stony guidelines: to make only instrumental, prog-oriented music; not to play live; and never change their line-up. However, after less than a decade and three more albums ("Quebre Este Disco", "Gloomland" and "Farawayers"), none of these entrenchment clauses had been kept. Some musicians had left rock'n'roll, the country or music altogether, untill ACIDENTE was found adrift in 1999 by Rock Symphony's labelhead Leonardo Nahoum, who made a proposal to convert "Quebre Este Disco" to CD. At this point, what was possible was to regroup the current line up (a trio) to record 4 new tracks to be added to the "Quebre Este Disco" CD release.

The result was satisfactory enough to encourage Rock Symphony to associate to French Musea, world's most prestigious prog rock label. In order to launch ACIDENTE's next work, "Technolorgy", recorded from 2001 to 2002. By this time, the band had become again a quartet with Malaria, Bassist Ary Menezes, drummer Mario Costa and newcomer guitarist Renato Borges.

Released in June 2002, the scarce 996 copies of "Technolorgy" sold out almost immediatly and the album has benn never reissued ever since, resulting that their 13 tracks could only be found on the internet. So Far.

In the following year, the band, enhanced by co-founder Helio "Scubi" Jenné, perpetrated an unusual, unexpected pop / hard / weird funny album under the nickname Pega Varetas ("Pick-a-Stick"). The idea was to open two fronts, one more prog rock oriented and the other more suitable for the music industry, even proposing a ludicrous "band franchise"; nevertheless, instead, both stones felt on deep sea and ACIDENTE disbanded one more time.

Another decade and three more new records, the two latest featuring Malaria, Jenné and back to the team multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Zunga Ezzaet, who had already taken part during most of the prog phase, its good to travel back in the years to the very early beginning of 21st Century and remember how ACIDENTE sounded then. This time, "Technolorgy" won't go out of stock that soon, since Stolen Records ("a Fake Enterprise") hasn't got by far the same distribution structure as the previous labels, to whose owners the producer thanks a lot. Still he'd like to thank, more than ever and for keeps, the great friends who helped to build those inspired moments: Renato, Mario and Ary, guest Reppolho plus sound engineer Paulinho Silva and his assistant Gilmário. All in all, truth be told: we were really great!

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