Edu Falaschi and Kiko Loureiro : interview on Kiss FM

Angra has been the highlight of the programme"Alternativa Kiss", on the Brazilian radio Kiss FM, on last July 13th.

For the occasion, the musicians Edu Falaschi (vocals) and Kiko Loureiro (guitar) conducted a lengthy interview regarding the release of the new album "Aqua" and presented for the first time the song "Lease of Life". Here is the sample (taken from the radio).

To hear the song, press the button "pause" of the player of the playlist (on the right of the blog) and press "play" on the player below.

For more news : Kiss FM / Flogão Angra

Edu Falaschi / Angra : Show for the release of the new album 'AQUA' in Salvador

Angra will give a special show for the release of the new album 'AQUA' in Salvador (Brazil) at Bahia Café Hall, from 7.pm (Brazilian time) on next August 28 !

For more news : Edu Falaschi Official Twitter / Angra Official Twitter / Dendê Produções

Edu Falaschi : special guest at Anime Brother Club event

Edu Falaschi will be the highlight of Anime Brother Club event, on next September 04/05, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) !

To read the recent interview of Edu Falaschi speaking about his link with the Japanese culture of anime and manga, see our post of July 25 : "Edu Falaschi, interview Play TV"

For more news : Anime Brother Club Official Website / Official Orkut Community

"Aqua" Japanese version : first pictures

MS Metal Press, Angra, Edu Falaschi Official note :

JVC/Victor revealed the first pictures of Angra’s new CD “Aqua” as well as the official poster of the release. Japan will be the first territory in the world where the 7th album of the band will will be released in August 11.



In the meantime, ANGRA already confirmed its gigs in Japan on the stage of LOUD PARK festival: October 16 – World Kinen Hall (Kobe) and October 17 – Saitama Super Arena (Saitama). For more information: http://www.loudpark.com/10/.

Don’t miss to check out the new Edu Falaschi Japanese Blog at the following address : http://blog.edufalaschi.jp/

Brazilian release of AQUA is scheduled for August 17. The exact date of the release in Europe will be announced soon, stay tuned!





Aqua Track List:
01. Viderunt Te Aquæ
02. Arising Thunder
03. Awake From Darkness
04. Lease Of Life
05. The Rage Of The Waters
06. Spirit Of The Air
07. Hollow
08. A Monster In Her Eyes
09. Weakness Of A Man
10. Ashes

For more news : MS Metal Press / Angra Official website / Edu Falaschi Official website / Victor Entertainment

Edu Falaschi will be back in Taiwan on tour with Angra

MS Metal Press / Angra Official note :

Angra has just confirmed a concert in Taiwan in support to the upcoming tour of their seventh studio album “Aqua”. The show is scheduled to October, 19th and it will be the fourth performance of the band in Taipei where they have a lot of fans.

Here are the first dates confirmed of the upcoming tour :

- ANGRA, Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil) – December, 05 /2010
- ANGRA, Curitiba/PR (Brazil) – December, 03 / 2010
- ANGRA, São Paulo/SP (Brazil) – November, 12 / 2010
- ANGRA, Taipei (Taiwan) – October, 19 / 2010
- ANGRA, Loud Park Festival (JAPAN) – October, 16-17 / 2010
- ANGRA, Belo Horizonte/MG (Brazil) – September, 18 / 2010
- ANGRA, João Pessoa, PB (Brazil) – September, 12 / 2010

In the meantime Angra continues to book the shows for their next world tour in support to the seventh studio album “Aqua” which will be released on August, 11th and 17th in Japan and Brazil respectively.

The release date in Europe will be announced by the media vehicles as soon as be defined.

Please contact Base2 Management by phone (+55.11.3673-2758) or e-mail (shows@base2producoes.com.br) to book a concert in your city.

For more news : Angra Official Website / MS Metal Press / Edu Falaschi France

Edu Falaschi / Angra : show in Campinas cancelled

MS Metal Press / Angra official note :

Due to a breaking contract the concert in Campinas (Brazil) scheduled to July 31st has been cancelled.

A new date will be booked in the future with the supervision of ANGRA and Base 2 Management.

We kindly ask our fans who had already bought the tickets to contact the venue to get their money back.

Please contact Base2 Management (shows@base2producoes.com.br) in case of any further question.

For more news : Angra Official Website / MS Metal Press

Edu Falaschi : interview Play TV

Edu Falaschi with his band Angra, has recently been interviewed by Adriana Farias, from PlayTV, about the Japanese universe and their long lasting connection. Here are the answers from Edu ! (English translation from Angra Official Webiste).

"PlayTV – You are known for participating in the Anime events in Brazil. How many Anime Friends editions did you play with ANGRA or ALMAH (Edu Falaschi side project)?

Edu Falaschi – It is the first time that ANGRA participates in this kind of show but all of us have already performed individually specially at Anime Friends.

PlayTV – But do you have a connection with the Anime universe?

Edu Falaschi – We intend to continue close to these people who enjoy cosplay, cartoon and Japanese series because in fact everybody enjoyed those things in the childhood. We have already watched many Japanese series and we like this kind of audience. They rock in the shows and really love ANGRA.

PlayTV – Has this relation begun when Edu recorded the songs for “Saint Seiya”?

Edu Falaschi – It started with an invitation from Álamo (dubbing studio). They needed to select a Heavy Metal vocalist who was known in the media to record the soundtrack, so I was invited to sing “Pegasus Fantasy” and “Blue Forever”, from Saint Seiya. After that I was invited again to record “Never”, another song for the movies. As from there I have been taking ANGRA to perform in all Anime events.

PlayTV – So a big part of the ANGRA fans can be also considered as Anime ones?

Edu Falaschi – Our fans enjoy not only Anime but also RPG and videogames. People who like this sound end up enjoying ANGRA since the most of game and cartoon soundtracks are made by Heavy Metal songs, so they identify themselves with the band."

To read the complete interview, go on Angra French blog !

For more news : Angra Official Website / Play TV

Edu Falaschi / Angra end Back To Life Tour 2009-2010

Report from Edu Falaschi Official website :

"Before the release of the 7th studio masterpiece AQUA (August 11 in Japan/Brazil and Europe in September, the exact date tba) and the start of the new World Tour supporting the album, Edu Falaschi with ANGRA has finished the Back To Life Tour 2009-2010 with a great performance on stage of Anime Friends Festival in São Paulo (Brazil).
This show became the biggest highlight of the final part of the tour. One of the most important rock/metal media in Brazil, “Whiplash!” Webzine highly appreciated the latest performance of Angra and Edu Falaschi on the festival.

Anime Friends Festival took place in Mart Center, São Paulo (Brazil) on the last week and it was dedicated to the famous Japanese art of Anime. It included shows of several Brazilian rock and metal bands and various events for anime fans. Angra played on Friday, 16th of July. The band presented the set-list of Back To Life Tour 2010 and, specially for this event, Pegasus Fantasy – a song from the soundtrack of anime series Knights of the Zodiac (Cavaleiros do Zodiaco) or Saint Seyia which is very popular in Brazil.

As Whiplash! Webzine reports, despite the diversity of people who attended the show (besides metal fans, for sure there were a lot of anime and manga’s fans) the band really rocked. Edu Falaschi was very inspired and his performance that memorable night was incredible, as he sang both the old and the more recent classics of Angra. In particular, the reporter mentions such classical song as Silence and Distance performed with great feeling and vibration that excited and united the public. And the great interpretation of Lisbon made by Edu Falaschi, as well as his recent version of Nothing To Say where he got its highest notes were accepted with great enthusiasm of the audience. And, of course, the hits from the “nova era” of Angra like Rebirth, The Voice Commanding You, The Course Of Nature, Spread Your Fire and others.

“Thus, if you have had any doubt regarding Angra, you can forget it! – tells Whiplah! – The band made a brilliant show on the stage of Anime Friends with a lot of respect to the fans, fascinating everyone with its professional performance, real team-work and great frontmanship of Edu Falaschi. It was a perfect aperitif before the things that should happen soon, and those who have been to there, will never forget”.

Set List :
- Unfinished Allegro
- Carry On
- Nova Era
- Waiting Silence
- Silence and Distance
- Angels Cry
- Lisbon
- The Course of Nature
- Acid Rain
- The Voice Commanding You
- Rebirth
- Nothing to Say
- Deus le Volt!
- Spread of Fire
- Pegasus Fantasy

To watch pics and videos of the show, watch our two following posts : "Edu Falaschi / Angra, Anime Friends 2010 : set-list, pics and videos" and "Edu Falaschi / Angra, Anime Friends 2010 : new pics" !

For more news : Edu Falaschi Official website / MS Metal Press / Whiplash

Edu Falaschi / Angra, Anime Friends 2010 : new pics

Great Brazilian photographer Danilo Palange offers you a photos gallery of the Angra's show at Anime Friends 2010 on past July 16 !

Watch the pics at the following link : http://www.flickr.com/photos/danilopalange/sets/72157624430496085/

For more news : Danilo Palange Official Website / Fickr

Edu Falaschi produces the new EP of Angels Holocaust

MS Metal Press / Edu Falaschi official note :

Edu Falaschi is producing the new EP "Crystal Night" of Angels Holocaust (Brazil). The CD will include three songs and the first video of the band as a multimedia section.

According to the vocalist Rodrigo Cafundo: "This is a great opportunity for Angels Holocaust! Our motivation is getting even stronger due to our work with Edu. We count on the experience that he has got during his international career and believe that he will bring a lot of improvements into the sound of the band. He is a great producer and all out team has the highest expectations possible regarding the quality of the upcoming EP".

"Crystal Night" should be released in the 2nd half of 2010 in Brazil. Angels Holocaust is going to publish video reports from the studio through its official sources:

• Official Myspace
• Official Youtube

For more news : MS Metal Press / Edu Falaschi Official Website

Artemis, produced by Edu Falaschi : drums sessions part 2

Here is the second part of drums sessions of Pedro Senna, drummer from the band Artemis, recorded at Norcal Studios (São Paulo, Brazil) with the producers Edu Falaschi and Adriano Daga !

"This video contains Pedro Senna and Edu Falaschi comments about the drum recordings of Artemis debut album and also parts of the records."



To watch the video "Drums sessions part 1" click here !

For more news : Artemis Official Youtube

Edu Falaschi launches his Official website in English

Edu Falaschi presents the English version of his official homepage http://www.edufalaschi.com...br/.

Check the link on the front page of http://www.edufalaschi.com...br/ or follow directly http://www.edufalaschi.com...br/eng/ to get to actual news, biography, interviews database, photo stream, links, tour dates, curiosities – all the most important details of the background and the present career of Angra and Almah singer, composer, producer and arranger Edu Falaschi in English.

You can share the news, live dates and articles from http://www.edufalaschi.com...br/eng/ through your Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and other services.

Also are available:

• Myspace

• Twitter

• Facebook artist page

• Facebook profile 2 (opened)

• Facebook profile 1 (full)

• Youtube channel

• Last.fm

• Orkut Community

Besides the Portuguese and English versions of the official site you can find the links to the official sources of Edu in French, Japanese and Russian on the front page of http://www.edufalaschi.com...br/.

For more news : Edu Falaschi Official website / Official Myspace

Edu Falaschi : official statement for internet / Orkut users

Dear friends and fans, due to a lot of confusions (especially around Orkut) we would like to clarify the situation concerning the Internet sources of Edu Falaschi. Please, keep in mind that Edu doesn’t have any personal account in Orkut, only Community pages in this social network. All the personal profiles in Orkut created as profiles of Angra and Almah vocalist Edu Falaschi are FAKES.

“I would like to make it clear that I’ve never had any kind of ORKUT profile. There are a few persons who pretend to be me. They are getting in touch with fans using my name cheating them and making use of the innocent people who think that they stay in a kind of contact with the artist Edu Falaschi. That is why I’m here now to make it absolutely clear that I reply to the fans only in my official FACEBOOK and MYSPACE. For those who would like to get to know about me and what kind of direct communication channels I have, please, visit my official website: www.edufalaschi.com.br. or the website of my press agency MS Metal Press. There you can find all the official information about my career as well as the links to all my official pages.

Thanks for understanding!”

Edu Falaschi

For more news : Edu Falaschi Official website / MS Metal Press

Edu Falaschi / Angra, Anime Friends 2010 : set-list, pics and videos

Here are set-list pics and some fan videos of the Angra's show at Anime Friends 2010 in São Paulo (Brazil) on past July 16 !

According to Gamehall website, Edu Falaschi has been the highlight of the show, making a "memorable performance" !

• Set-list :
  

- Unfinished Allegro
- Carry On
- Nova Era
- Waiting Silence
- Silence and Distance
- Angels Cry
- Lisbon
- The Course of Nature
- Acid Rain
- The Voice Commanding You
- Rebirth
- Nothing to Say
- Deus le Volt!
- Spread of Fire
- Pegasus Fantasy

• Pics from Gamehall and Kiko Lourerio Official Twitpic :
  

• Fan videos :
  

- Silence And Distance from Retardatismo on Youtube :



- The Voice Commanding You, from Retardatismo on Youtube :



- Pegasus Fantasy /Saint Seiya (with Kiko Loureiro on drums, Rafael Bittencourt on bass and Felipe Andreoli on guitar) from Kendanetwork on Youtube :




For more news : Gamehall website / Angra French Blog