AINDA is the 12nd independent album released 2012 by Acidente Rock Band

Photo: Paulo Malária

Presentation

Five years after their last release, ACIDENTE returns with this new CD, "AINDA". The band reappears in 2012 as a trio: Zunga Ezzaet, Paulo Malaria and Helio "Scubi" Jenne. Just like a long time, do not expect live performances except on very special occasions , which never happen ...

The key factor in the history of "AINDA" was the return of guitarrist Zunga Ezzaet to Nilópolis, where he set up his home studio and consolidated himself as an accomplished multiinstrumentist, also playing bass, some keyboards, drums programming, recording and mixing. Without Zunga, "AINDA" would not have been released, at least not the way it is - and if he had redorded it by himself the result would not be much different from what we have here.

Zunga participated in the instrumental phase of Acidente, between 1989 and 1995, having recorded 3 albums: "Quebre Este Disco", "Gloomland" and "Farawayers". Other musicians in those albums were keyboardist and producer Paulo Malaria, bassists Jarbas Loop and Ary Menezes and drummers Bruno Mega and Mario Costa. Zunga then moved to Argentina and after that, settled down in Criciúma, returning to Rio in 2008.

Meanwhile, ACIDENTE as a trio recorded the supplement "Expo Rock 2000" inserted as bonus tracks in the re-release of "Break This Record" as CD, earning soon after the accession of a new member, the excellent guitarist Renato Borges. With whom the quartet made "Technolorgy", released worldwide in 2002. The horizon appeared to be promising, so much that the following year ACIDENTE, strengthened by the return of vocalist and co -founder Helio 'Scubi' Jenne, perpetrated a basic rock album under the alter-ego "PEGA VARETAS",

That CD was called "Mêu Páu de Sêbo" and in which it was launched an unprecedented "band franchise" that would revolutionize rock!

Nevertheless nothing else happened, neither with the instrumental ACIDENTE or with PEGA. In 2007, the declared aim of maintaining the name Acidente in order not to loose the mark, Malaria produced the CD "Não Pode Ser Vendido Separadamente" (It Can not Be Sold Separately), with the participation of Scubi, Ary, Paulinha and guitarist Ringo Morais, studio owner. The album featured on its cover an honest warning: "Progheads - Warning: Not prog at all", discarding thus any resemblance to previous instrumental albums.

In fact nothing was achieved, but neither the CD has reached beyond its basic intention (to keep the name of the band alive). Perhaps the excessive variety of styles, apart from a few iconoclasts tracks, "Não Pode..." nothing could. Worse still, the lights fade out, an unusual outburst of hatred against the producer and his girlfriend buried any possibility that the place could be used again.

ACIDENTE continued a name adrift, waiting for an event to bring it back to life. In 2008, Mala, Ary and Mario met for a few sessions, but that attempt recovery did not follow its course.

Then Jad Maroja, singer and mastermind of pop band Estado Interessante, informed Malaria that Zunga had returned and had set up a studio. Obviously the first Stolen Records album was produced there. It was the second CD of Estado Interessante, called "16" and released in 2010 (Stolen 5) . The result pleased and began the negotiations for the new ACIDENTE album.

It was decided then that it would not be an entirely instrumental album as some predecessors, and would mix themes with voice. A hybrid, therefore, but more oriented to a hard sound with references to the years 70/80; and it would also be serious, frowning, without the humorous Malaria jokes that may have burned out the previous film productions.

In its 17 tracks, "Ainda" features 7 instrumental songs: Zunga Ezzaet wrote 5 of them, Paulo Malaria another one as well as Rodrigo Araujo, visual programmer of some earlier works of the band. The remaining 10 have vocals, with 7 by Mala, 2 by Helio "Scubi" Jenne in partnership with Raul Branco, the three co-founders of ACIDENTE in 1978, and 1 more Zunga's song with lyrics by Roger Ramos, punk inventor who participated in the group "The Lirios", which in 1987 was the interesting link between Estado and the instrumental ACIDENTE. It closes thus a circle of auspiciously presentations!

Independent changed much its point of view since the naive 80. We know today to be writing and recording music that will not have support of the media when the disc is released. But afterwards, one day, who knows? Even if we do not get to see that day. The future is not for everyone - in fact , in a broad view, the future completely exclude this remote present attendees. To appreciate this inexorable reality just think of the past. But discs have undetermined validity.

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