This interview were published on November 2008, so something could have change, but not critically.
Interview by Ksenia on Darkside e-zine.
A special thanks to Irina, the Almah Russia's webmaster for the link !
"Ksenia :Hi, Edu! My name is Ksenia, I’m a journalist of Russian Darkside E-zine. Probably you remember me, you invited me to Brazil with you (laughs)
Edu Falaschi : Oh, yes, now I remember you! Hello, Ksenia! Well, I must be talking to an angel. And the interview will be for heaven!
Ksenia : Well, well… I guess it will be vise a versa. Not for heavens, but for DarkSide! (everybody laughs) Well, let’s start! When we talked two years ago about Almah (it was in “Apelsin” club before Angra concert), could you imagine that Almah will turn into a real band and into your main project?
Edu Falaschi : Actually, when I released the first album, it was in 2006, and I was working with Angra at the same time, and I thought that probably in the future Angra would have some problems, actually even in 2006 I knew the problems in Angra, I was trying to look to the future and I was imagining that probably Angra would stop. And then Angra really stopped in 2007 in July. And then when I released the first album, it was the solo album, I knew that maybe in the future Almah could be a band. And when Angra really stopped, we didn’t know about Angra future and we didn’t know when we would come back with Angra. I decided in December 2007 to create a new Almah album, but as a real band, as a full time band. I did it and we recorded the new album last year, and that’s the history.
Ksenia : What does it mean for you to be a real band? Does it only mean that the band releases Cds, new albums, gives concerts or is it something more, something different from giving concerts and making albums? And what’s the difference between a real band Angra and a real band Almah?
Edu Falaschi : In my opinion having a real band is stronger than having a solo album, because when you have a band you have five or four people working for the band, you have five people giving their faith and fighting for the band and realizing dreams of the band. It was one of the reasons to create a real band, I wanted to have a real metal album I really wanted to do. I’m sure that we got it, because the album in quality is very good, it is very nice. I know that if I had made this album alone, only by myself like a solo album, the album would have been definitely weaker, it wouldn’t have been so nice. But now we are five guys playing very well, we are concentrated, everybody in Almah has a focus on the album. So that’s why the album is very strong.
So this is my opinion.
Ksenia : The forming of Almah line-up was very long and dramatic, because for a short period of time your brother Tito Falaschi and a guitar player of Dr. Sin Eduardo Ardanuy in Almah. It seemed that in the autumn 2007 the permanent line-up was formed – you, Felipe Andreoli, Aquiles Priester, Marcelo Barbosa. But where did the previous line up disappeared? For example, Aquiles. And how did it come about that 5the new musicians appeared?
Edu Falaschi : Actually when I decided to have a real band I needed to have the right person, and actually I needed to have the right people in the band – people that really wanted to work for the band, people who really wanted to create something new and make a real band. But those people – Aquiles (Priester - Bass), Fábio (Laguna - Keyboard) – were not in the same atmosphere that me, Felipe and Marcelo Barbosa were in. That’s why I decided to invite another drummer, Marcelo Moreira, and another guitar player called Paulo Schroeber. I invited these guys, because they are specialists, they are very happy with the band, they are working very hard and they love this music. They are just living in Almah. That’s why I decided to invite these new guys. Although they are not famous, they are amazing musicians. And in my opinion this final line-up is the best line-up I could ever have in Brazil. The drummer is the best power-metal drummer we have in Brazil nowadays and Paulo Schroeber is playing perfectly together with Marcelo Barbosa. So we have very nice playing guitars. That’s why I believe that I have a great team, I have a great band, so I invited these people, because they are the right people.
Ksenia : Aren’t you worried about the fact that all your musicians have a wide range of projects, their own projects? For instance, Andreoli has Time Out, Bittencourt Project, Barbosa has Khallice and some guitar institute, Marcelo Moreira has Burning In Hell, Paulo Schroeber is planning to release his solo album… Aren’t you afraid that all these musicians will pay less attention to Almah due to their own projects?
Edu Falaschi : Actually, when I invited everybody to join the band Andreoli already had this band Time Out, Marcelo Barbosa already had Khallice and our drummer already played in Burning In Hell… But of course I don’t like to be like a dictator (laughs) , and I wouldn’t like to say to the guys, “O’k, you are mine, so don’t play with anybody else” (laughs). I didn’t want to say that and I told the guys, “You have your projects, but I would like to have you guys to help me with Almah and to create it. Do you want to do it?” And everybody now is very concentrated on Almah and those projects Time Out, Burning Hell and Khallice totally stopped. They are not working for those bands. Sometimes they do something for them, they play concerts, but they are really working for Almah. And we had many concerts in Brazil in December, in January, we are very busy and at the same time I have Angra as well, we didn’t quit Angra. Angra just stopped and is having a rest, but probably in March I’m going to come back with Angra. I will try to work with both bands at the same time – Almah and Angra. But of course I know that it will be a little bi difficult, because I know that Angra is a big band, it is very famous, and a very demanding band, but in the end it is not so difficult – if you have time, you do something. When I have to do another step with Angra in March, probably I will do many Angra and some times Almah. When Angra stops again, maybe in a year or in a couple of years, I will come back with another knew Almah’s album, and then what?... That’s the musician’s life! (laughs)"
