Dimitris Kontogeorgakos from Metal-Temple.com recently contacted an interview with Edu Falaschi (ALMAH) and talked about the new album and the status in ANGRA.
Some interesting excerpts can be found below.
Q: What are the lyrics about? I had read that Fragile Equality is actually based on a book.
A: "Yeah the lyrics are based on this book. It is a fiction story that talks about the balance in life. The balance we need to find to keep living and eventually be happy. For example, we need a balance in relationships to keep this going, in a band to keep everyone happy and make it work. The album is like a soundtrack to this book that is made in manga style that is really famous here in Brazil. Inside the book there will be a CD that will contain just the music of the album without the lyrics so you can really use it as a soundtrack or even as karaoke to sing along."
Q: Will the book and the CD be released together or are you planning to make a special edition out of it?
A: "First, the CD will be released and this has already been done in Brazil and Japan. In October, the CD will get to the rest of the world and the book will be released only in Brazil in December. Next year the book will come to Europe and Japan translated in English. After all these maybe there will be a special edition that will have the CD and the book as you said."
Q: Back to the music. I think that you have changed your vocals in Almah compared to Angra, am I right?
A: "Yes I did change them. You know in Angra I try to sing very high since the older songs were sung by Andre in an extremely high pitch and this is not my style. I sing like Dio and Dickinson high but not that high. So, in Almah this is my natural voice that is clearly not that good in making falsettos like I have to do with Angra. This adds more confidence to me when I have to sing live. Because I am using my natural pitch and this is better for the fans who are getting exactly what they are listening to the CD."
Q: Ok, I think it is time to clear out the situation with Angra. There was a recent press release saying that after the end of Angra there is a new band called Almah. What is the truth?
A: "There was a big confusion on this. I have to state that Angra are not dead. There is a big problem with the manager who actually owns the band’s name. We had a big fight with the manager about financial issues and actually we discovered a lot of bad things so we had to split. Then the manager said "ok but since I own the name you cannot use it anymore; you cannot do albums, live concerts nothing". So we have to fight this legal problems through lawyers but here in Brazil legal fights take such a long time. It can take almost five years to get into a solution. The truth is that we are the band and not the manager so the name is ours. The bottom line is that we don’t know when this will be solved so this is why I have Almah."
Read the full interview at Metal-Temple.com.
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