RAILS, from Recife to the world. That..s RAILS..s proposal. The band was formed in the end of 2008 by four experienced musicians of Recife..s local scene. After five years on a road named REC BEATLES, where they payed tribute to the british fab four, THE BEATLES, the guitar player Luciano “Lulu” Oliveira, drummer and lead singer Murilo Nóbrega and bass player Kennedy Costa had left for a highest quality authorial work, linked with all that..s new in the world-wide pop-rock, but not losing all your biggest musical influences.
Now, RAILS – with your first CD being finished – it doesn..t hide from audience their big Beatles influence, mixing to some other big names from 60..s and 70..s, like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Police, Sting and Simon & Garfunkel. All this combined to a soft sound from posterior generations just like Men At Work and Toto to 00..s Keane. All these influences, their solid style and skills could be heard very soon on their upcoming CD, there we will listen beautiful ballads (“Love is the Answer” and “I Miss You All Time”), groove pop-rock music (“Falling to Pieces”) or at (“Bit Of Love”), where is very intensive their Beatle influence. Murilo Nóbrega began his career listening to all great drummers from the 60..s and 70..s. Names like John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Ringo Starr (Beatles), Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) and Roger Taylor (Queen).
After two years living and playing with some local bands in Chicago (USA), he returned to Recife with a lot of Blues, rhythm'n'blues and Mid-West music influences. At his hometown, Recife he started to sing with REC BEATLES and it was like a singer he won a prize of Best vocalist of 7ª Beatleweek in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in December, 2007. At the same festival, REC BEATLES got Third place playing against Beatles tribute bands from all over the Americas.
Also a veteran at Brazil..s stages, guitar player and vocalist Lulu Oliveira bring to RAILS all your big experience as a composer, arranger and music producer. Amongst the bands/Artists he played or composed some songs we can say names like Cascabulho, Paulo Diniz, Alceu Valença, Bubuska, Zeh Rocha and Lula Queiroga. It was made by Lulu with Lula Queiroga as a partner, songs like “Conceição dos coqueiros”, that was recently recorded by Elba Ramalho, “Eu no futuro”, success with a band called Boca Livre and frevo..s “Ela me disse” recorded by Spok Frevo Orchestra.
As a producer, Lulu Oliveira did a lot of brazilian artists albums, like “Azul invisível, vermelho cruel” (Lula Queiroga), “Tear” (Zeh Rocha), “É caco de vidro puro” (Cascabulho) – that concurred for Grammy Awards - “Godê pavão”(Coco Raízes de Arcoverde), “Bubuska e o tamboreton” (Bubuska), “MPB” (Banda Etnia) and “Por nada” (Henrique Macedo). Between 1998 and 2003 he also produced a lot of jingles, having Lula Queiroga again as his partner. Today, besides composing he..s still responsible for RAILS..s first album. Kleyton Wanderley was born in Recife and starts to study music at Centro Cultural de Música in Recife he also made some private popular and classic piano lessons and study with one of the best piano players in Brazil, Lourdes Aguiar.
As a producer and arranger, Kleyton has been influenced by a lot of different music styles, from pop to samba, from jazz to maracatu. He also work as a producer of some Brazilian Gospel music projects. He produced and played with many different Brazilians artists and singers like Elias Silva..s CD called “Resgatando Sonhos” with Symphonic Orchestra of Campinas and Funk Como Le Gusta band playing along Elia..s work. Also Paulo Diniz, Art Prima band, Aristides Guimarães, CHESF choir, Michael Leme, Cuca Teixeira, Albino Infantozi, Pedro Ivo and others. He also have recorded at some big Brazil..s studios, like “Mosch studios” and “Sun Trip studios”.
Last but not least, bass player Kennedy Costa played with bands like “Das Bandas da Parahyba” (1996) e “Severino Blues Band” (1998), both from the city of Campina Grande (Paraíba), your homeland. Back in 1998 he moved to Recife and started “Grava Studios”, one of the best rehearsal places in town, where bands from everywhere in the world passed through. In 2002, Kennedy joined “Eta Carinae band” going on tour to Europe twice. At the same time he joined REC BEATLES with Lulu Oliveira and Murilo Nóbrega what it will become RAILS! “Taking advantage of all this Rock and Roll spirit and energy that exists when we play together, now i compose some king of music that..s very accessible to all people in the world, bringing to them our way to see things.
Pop Rock style for being such a world wide passion, English language for being “world..s language” and them Portuguese language, which is our “Mother language”…..Fact is we make music to the world, treating like just one big nation.” “The world is my neighborhood!” (Lulu Oliveira) |
