WEJAH

In the past 80's, when I started the ALPHA III project, I recorded 2 first LPS in different studios. Then I met Moisés Leite and started recording in a very beautiful and large studio, Juratel (USA Studios CAMPINAS S.P.). In order, I started LPS Production in S.P. with the foundation of Faunus by José Grijó. There, Sombras, the label's first LP came out. Then at JURATEL in Campinas they started a series of LPS recordings that were:

ALPHA III-Agartha ALPHA III-Ruinas Circulares ALPHA III-The Aleph ALPHA III- Temple of Delphos WEJAH-Renascença DJAM KARET(USA) The Ritual Continues ALPHA III -The Seven Spheres ALPHA III-Voyage to Ixtlan ( o último trabalho gravado neste lindo estudio em 1993, antes dele ser fechado e modificado) AMYR CANTUSIO JR (ALPHA III PROJECT/BRAZIL)

1. Espelhos (3:50) 2. Homens do Futuro (3:55) 3. Eventualidades (9:07) 4. Renascença (3:16) 5. Canone (12:30) 6. Poeta Terrestre, Poeta Divino ( 5:32 - Eduardo Miranda / guitarra, teclados - Alessandro Miranda / teclados, vocal - Henrique Rosa / sax, vocal - Jorge Moana / baixo, vocal - Wladimir Augusto / bateria, percussão - Amir Cantusio Jr /grand piano,programação de sintetizadores,engenheiro -Moisés Leite/ engenheiro

ESTUDIOS JURATEL(Campinas S.P.) PRODUTORA LP (vinil) : Faunus S.P.

The album suffers from a bad mix and production, however the musicianship sounds quite decent, being a weird mix of Psychedelic/Progressive Rock with a touch of Electronic.The first couple of tracks are rather hypnotic Psych/Electronic pieces with mediocre vocals but a good use of electronics and organ, while the guitar sounds very flat.The first long track ''Eventualidades'' follows the same vein, opening with nice keyboard work, the guitar playing is smooth and almost HACKETT-like in places, there is a great spacey synth-led middle part in the vein of ALPHA III before the fine ending guitar solo and the warm choirs.The eponymous track will close the first side of the LP in a dramatic way with strong synthesizers, a spacey atmosphere and crying guitar hooks but mediocre vocals.The 12- min. ''Canone'' is more of the same.Partly guitar-driven and partly synth-based, this composition is build around electronic sequences, spacey synthesizers, one-dimensional long grooves, guitar explosions, boring sax soloing and rather bad vocals with the band once more showing some nice ideas totally incohesive to each other.''Poeta Terrestre, Poeta Divino'' will open with some percussion work to transmit into a keyboard/guitar-based groove with an elegant atmosphere, but the production, vocals and cheap-sounding synths do not help at all.

Unfortunately ''Renascenca'' suffers from series of black holes.The mediocre production, bad mix, below average vocals and flat synthesizers make it sounding like an amateur effort recorded at a basement than an album headed for the markets.However there are some interesting ideas the band delivers, from the good combination of guitar and electronics to some unique atmospheres their sound creates, that makes the album pretty listenable and saves it from being a totally forgotten obscurity...2.5 stars.