Dedicate My Soul live at BLACKMORE, SP, BRAZIL 2009
The Underworld
taken from BRAINWORMS-I
The BITTENCOURT PROJECT is the name of Rafael Bittencourt's most recent side project. He is the founder guitar player of the band Angra, that has conquered fame in many countries with a very singular style that blends Heavy-Metal, Brazilian and classic music.
BRAINWORMS I is the first album from this group/project fully idealized by Rafael Bittencourt who has a discography of over 16 titles, gold records (in Brazil and Japan), over one million records sold and wrote some of the modern melodic-metal hymns such as ANGELS CRY, TIME, STAND AWAY, Z.I.T.O., MAKE BELIEVE, METAL ICARUS, REBIRTH, ACID RAIN, THE SHADOW HUNTER, THE VOICE COMMANDING YOU among many other songs that for years inspire an assorted audience and motivate many hopeful musicians to improve themselves on their instruments.
Brainworms is a term created by Oliver Sacks, a famous American Neuron-scientist, to name certain types of melodies that eventually “stick” into our memory and we feel hard to get it off. Curiosly, Rafael had the melodies for the songs trapped in his mind right when he was reading Oliver Sacks's book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”. Inspired by this concept, he wrote the 11 songs of the album.
Accurate musicianship, talent, originality, a pioneer instinct, technique and feeling are just a few of the adjectives used to qualify this musician, owner of an unique sensibility, known as one of the most important of his style. And those are the same qualities found in the upcoming CD BRAINWORMS I from his recently born group: the BITTENCOURT PROJECT
The release of BRAINWORMS I is expected for October 2008, same month as ANGRA's 17th anniversary. This album comes as a gift for the fans that have been supporting this musician's career all over the world.
The BITTENCOURT PROJECT is been released simultaneously in Japan (JVC VICTOR) and Brazil (VOICE MUSIC). A tour might happen in Japan early 2009. And it is planned to be released in USA and Europe on late 2008.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Artist: BITTENCOURT PROJECT
Album: BRAIWORMS I
Produced by Rafael Bittencourt e Oscar Gonzalez.
Release date: October 2008 (Brazil and Japan).
Style: Progressive Hard Rock
Origin: São Paulo- BRAZIL
MUSICIANS
Rafael Bittencourt: Guitars and Vocals
Marcell Cardozo: Drums
Valentino: Percussion
Felipe Andreoli: Normal, Fretless and Upright Basses
Fernando Nunes: Bass and fretless bass
Fabrizio DiSarno: Keyboards
Nei Medeiros: Keyboards
Frank Djoni: Accordion
Tony SZ: Additional percussion
ESPECIAL GUEST MUSICIANS
Amon Lima: Electric and acoustic violins
Ricardo Confessori: Drums
Kiko Loureiro: piano
It all started when all my family used to gather at my grandfather´s place (Edgar Bittencourt) on sunday nights to play and sing some brazilian folk tunes. My grandfather´s rights were suspended during the Military Dictatorship, and, since we were not allowed to work, we all gathered to cheer him up. That became a great family gathering. We all could sing, tell jokes, funny stories, etc. I was very young (from 4 to 12, that I remember) but that good atmosphere created by the music, that made everybody forget about their problems, fascinated me.
Then, after my grandfather´s death, in 1983, I inherited my aunt´s old acoustic guitar and started learning to play it. After that, I have been looking for information and tried to learn my instrument every time I could.
I lived in the US for a year, and that helped me to play and write, but it was at Santa Marcelina University, in São Paulo, where I graduated as composer and conductor, that I felt ready to start a professional band.
I started in Angra in a period when grunge bands were appearing and the glamourous heavy metal bands were decreasing. In the middle of all these changes of course, some melodic metal in Europe (Gamma Ray and Helloween) and some american Prog Metal bands (Dream Theater and Fates Warning) came up, as bandas with virtuosi musicians and writing songs full of melody and emotion.
All this should be combined with the sophisticated way of composing from the classic era, and we would add some of our folk songs and brazilian culture and that was the chemistry for a band with no equal.
I thought about the name Angra, which I think is strong for the project. This name existed since the egyptian times and appears in many cultures with different meanings. Always related to mysterious and powerful words. The band started 15 years ago. We have won many victories together and several are still to come. I thank God and all who helped us get this far.
rafael ... eu sou amigo do bruno viana ... to aqui pra agradecer ... por deixar eu e o bruno entrar no camarin em curitiba .... adimiro muito seu trabalho forte abraço
Hi BIttencourt! We are the symphonic black metal band from Israel, Dagor Dagorath. You are invited to visit our Facebook page, just click the little photo below.
Hola, ya leí el Blog aunque yo no sé Portugués entendí lo suficiente Felicitaciones por todo lo que está pasando y gracias por mantener a los fans enterados.
Hey, I just read your blog news, eventhough I don´t speak Portuguese I understood enough. Congratulations for all that is going on and thanks for keep your fans updated!
Thank you so very much for the add love your music and your songs they kick fucking ass and you guys are a fucking awesome Heavy Metal band and thanks again for the add and take care.
HELLO BLTTENCOURT NAMES ADAM ITS AN HONOR TO MEET YOU GUYS FROM THE BAND YOUR MUSIC FRIGGIN AWESOME AND THE SONGS TOTAL BADASS KEEP ROCKING ON AND SEND ME A KICKASS COM MENT TO ME ON MY PAGE ROCKON.
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Felicitaciones por todo lo que está pasando y gracias por mantener a los fans enterados.
