They support temperatures around 1100 ° C and a corresponding hydrostatic pressure half-dozen thousands of feet deep. Since 1960, is the orange “black boxes” that planes record their flight logs, documenting all communications that may help establish the causes of any accident. Each news mention the failed black box, unsurprisingly, is usually preceded by any tragedy, when seeking desperate reasons to justify the unexpected.
In the case of the 12th studio album of GNR, Black Box can not bring such a fateful analysis to the past-disaster. But it is impossible not establish the clear link between this name of baptism and the previous Domestic Flights , album in which the group reinterpreted 13 songs from their past.
No ignore the leaves. If we see before Black Box , what went wrong with Domestic Flights ? The trio, Rui Reininho, Toli César Machado and Jorge Romão, do not dodge the question. “This album was a proposal that our publisher at the time, EMI, made us,” replies Toli César Machado, main songwriter. “We accepted, but what we really wanted was to record a live acoustic album with the show we were doing. This was not a very accomplished album. “
The frustration in musicians is unmistakable. “If you look at the Domestic Flights , there are two or three songs that I feel good in that environment,” confesses Reininho. Bellevue , Occult blood and the title song, quotes from memory. And these are the only three songs that consider having survived a distortion of its sound, a disk assumed to have signature publisher or producer. This experience, also refers to the singer, “created cleavages – there are people who even hated what we had done with the songs”.
Black Box work, so, like a fist fell with a crash on the table in a gesture of autonomy. No more publishers and thrown blame onto others. From now on, it is always with them. “This gives us more freedom, more tranquility, and we can do things calmly,” said Toli. “There is no pressure or editorial deadlines.” Strategic pause in speech: the previous dependence on terms of a multinational implied that GNR had to undergo a plan issues that sometimes slowed them editions based on priorities that could represent new albums by Pink Floyd or Madonna. They felt like an alternate player, waiting for time to take the field.
Now, with the creation of his own label, the IndieFada, the GNR calling for independence that frees them, for example, the corridors of bureaucracy – “be received, schedule meetings, this is nothing in the head,” says Reininho -., but on the other hand, cease to enjoy the friendly budgets that allowed dream more disks “filled”
Currently, everything happens within a regulated domestic economy and “good family management”, not giving the megalomaniac plans with endless guest musicians, producers stratospheric paid princely or opening the side a little recording sessions focused and capable of dragging for months. “And now no longer had the desire to realize during recording if there are many or few singles ,” sighs Jorge Romão.
Nevertheless, it is easy to predict, every penny invested passes out of the group of pocket. “It is a serious way to invest in us,” calls it Reininho, for soon after drop a sentence of self-esteem book, “If we do not believe, who else” The truth is that in choosing Mário Barreiros for production of Black Box already knew they would find someone who “knows how to listen and enjoy what there is in a band.” It was not a producer with trademark that would demand, “a Timbaland or another so that left with the music in the hands eventually leave another thing entirely,” Reininho advocates, but a producer who could listen ideas the group and give them body.
That said Toli, was the “traumatic lesson” of Domestic Flights , once I have noticed in the past that had failed repeatedly in casting of the guitarists. “That’s why I started playing guitar,” said Toli, who took the instrument and the battery dropped from Side Swan (2002). “I concluded that it was preferable to deliver the battery to the bandit. There were guests on guitar who came and began to disfigure our sound completely. GNR was never music virtuous or soloists. He came to drop it, many times. “” There was silence, it was all shrieking everywhere, “describes Reininho about these excess sins times. And jokes while simulates the rocker guitar Beat it : “We were about to make versions of Michael Jackson. Was going to be a show. I is that I lost my breath. “
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