Almah France Blog : playlist of the month

Here is the new playlist of the month :

• Beyond Tomorrow (Almah, Fragile Equality, 2008)
• Magic Flame (Almah, Fragile Equality, 2008)
• Forgotten Land (Almah, Almah, 2006)
• Children Of Lies (Almah, Almah, 2006)

Enjoy ;)

Edu Falaschi : best wishes on Twitter

Edu Falaschi posted his best wishes on his Official Twitter !

Edu Falaschi : "Christmas is ending, but I hope that christmas spirit doesn't last just one day ! Be happy with respect and compassion ! Kisses to all!;)".

For more news : Edu Falaschi Official Twitter

Marcelo Barbosa : new MB1 models

Marcelo Barbosa posted on his Official Blog pics of the two new MB1s guitar signature models , manufactured by Tagima, that he offered himself for Christmas, "A true work art !"

Enjoy ;)

For more news : Marcelo Barbosa Official Blog

Christmas on Almah European Fan-Club

Almah European Fan-Club offers you for Christmas, the "Golden Empire" tabs, score and playbacks for guitarists, bassists and singers!

You'll find all the files for free download on the "Scary Zone", reserved to the Fan-Club members!

If you are not a member yet, we invite you to register yourself now : it's free ;)

The all Almah France and Almah European Fan-Club teams wish you a merry Christmas and see you next year, with new surprises !

See ya soon :)

Almah France / Almah European Fan-Club webmasters

For more news : Almah European Fan-Club

Almah France : Interviews 08/09 retrospective

Almah France offers a retrospective of the Almah's interviews published on the blog since its creation ! Enjoy ;)

• Interviews 2009

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Grv.art.br (French/English/Portuguese)

* Interview Felipe Andreoli on Almah France and Almah Japan (French/English)

* Interview Paulo Schroeber on Almah France and Almah Japan (French/English)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Hard Blast, part 2 (French/English/Portuguese)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Hard Blast, part 1 (French/English/Portuguese)

* Interview Marcelo Moreira on Almah France and Almah Japan (French/English)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Almah France and Almah Japan (French/English)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa/Paulo Schroeber on Guitar Player, part 2 (French/English)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa/Paulo Schroeber on Guitar Player, part 1 (French/English)

* Interview Felipe Andreoli on Power Of Metal Community, part 2 (French/English)

* Interview Felipe Andreoli on Power Of Metal Community, part 1 (French/English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Friday 13th zine (French/English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi and Almah on Spirit Of Metal (French/English)

• Interviews 2008

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Terroraiser (French/English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Power Of Metal Community and Almah Russia (French/English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Musica Expressa (Portuguese/French)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Siammetal (English/French)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Yamaha (French/Portuguese)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Lords Of Metal (French)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Whiplash (Portuguese /French)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on TV Rock (Portuguese)(click on "Galeria" , "videoteca" and "Inside Programa com Edu Falaschi')

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Antenna Magazine (French/English)

* Interview d'Edu Falaschi on radio LT24 San Nicolas (Spanish)

* Interview Edu Falaschi pour la radio Rock247 (English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi pour Metal Temple (octobre 2008) (French/English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Rock Underground (10/08) (French Portuguese)

* Interview (radio) d'Edu Falaschi pour le site russe Metalcast du 01/10/08 (English)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Guitar Clinic (septembre 2008) (English)

* Interview Edu Falaschi on Whiplash du 14/07/08 (French/Portuguese)

* Interview Marcelo Barbosa on Oceania Rock (Portuguese)

For more news : Almah France

Almah France : Fragile Equality Tour retrospective

A this end of the year, Almah France offers a retrospective of the Fragile Equality Tour 2008/2009. You can watch or watch again all the pics of the Almah's tour !

• Fragile Equality Tour 2009
  

* Almah, Otacon 2009, UNIP Brasilia (Brazil), gallery 2

* Almah, Otacon 2009, UNIP Brasilia (Brazil), gallery 1

* Almah, Space Rock, Santos (Brazil) 06/09/09, gallery 2

* Almah, Space Rock, Santos (Brazil) 06/09/09, gallery 1

* Ourinhos (Brazil) 01/08/09, gallery 1

* Manifesto Bar Sao Paulo (Brazil) 31/07/09, gallery 3

* Manifesto Bar Sao Paulo (Brazil) 31/07/09, gallery 2

* Manifesto Bar Sao Paulo (Brazil) 31/07/09, gallery 1

* Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 05/04/09, gallery 5

* Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 05/04/09, gallery 4

* Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 05/04/09, gallery 3

* Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 05/04/09, gallery 2

* Circo Voador, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil) 05/04/09, gallery 1

* San Remo, Jundiai (Brazil) 20/03/09, gallery 2

* San Remo, Jundiai (Brazil) 20/03/09, gallery 1

* Grito Rock Festival, Araraqura (Brazil) 28/02/09, gallery 2

* Grito Rock Festival, Araraquara (Brazil) 28/02/09, gallery 1

* Santo André (Brazil) 13/02/09, gallery 5

* Santo André (Brazil) 13/02/09, gallery 4

* Santo André (Brazil) 13/02/09, gallery 3

* Santo André (Brazil) 13/02/09, gallery 2

* Santo André (Brazil) 13/02/09, gallery 1

• Fragile Equality Tour 2008
  

* Brasilia (Brazil) 19/12/08, gallery 2

* Brasilia (Brazil) 19/12/08, gallery 1

* Juazero Do Norte (Brazil) 14/12/08

* Teresina (Brazil) 13/12/08

* Sao Luis (Brazil) 12/12/08

* Natal (Brazil) 06/12/08

* Fortaleza (Brazil) 05/12/08

* Maceio (Brazil) 02/12/08

* Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) 29/11/08, gallery 2

* Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) 29/11/08, gallery 1

* SBC Metal Fest Sao Paulo (Brazil) 22/11/08, gallery 2

* SBC Metal Fest Sao Paulo (Brazil) 22/11/08, gallery 1

* Manifesto Rock Bar Sao Paulo (Brazil) 19/11/08, gallery 2

* Manifesto Rock Bar Sao Paulo (Brazil) 19/11/08, gallery 1

* Anime Friends (Brazil) 2008

For more news : Almah France Official website

Marcelo Barbosa : folder Orange

Marcelo Barbosa presents on his Official Blog the new folder of Orange amps in Brazil !

For more news : Marcelo Barbosa Official Blog

Felipe Andreoli : Master Class in Curitiba

Felipe Andreoli (Almah / Angra) takes part in the first meeting of bass players in Curitiba, (Brazil), today, from 19:00 (Brazilian time).

Official note of the event :

"With an important musical background, Felipe has recorded many albums and made several world tours, in more than 30 countries. Musician which has an important role on national and international scene, Felipe was elected by nearly every specialized press and websites as the best Brazilian bass player, and one of the best bass players in the world by Japanese magazine Burn !
In his Master Class Felipe will speak about the main techniques and the equipment needed by a bassist to play rock and metal."

For more news : Nei Rangel website / Felipe Andreoli official myspace

Felipe Andreoli : workshop and workshow in Leme

Felipe Andreoli (Almah / Angra) gives today in Leme (SP/Brazil) from 19:00 (Brazilian time) a workshop and a wokshow with Léo Mancini (Shaman's guitarist) !

For more news : Felipe Andreoli Official Myspace

Felipe Andreoli/Marcelo Moreira : pocket show with Timo Tolkki

Masterclass and pocket show Tour of Timo Tolkki (Revolution Renaissance / ex-Stratovarius), the Music Beyond Infinity Latin America Tour 2009, organized by the producer and drummer Marcelo Moreira (Almah / Burning In Hell), happening today in Sao Paulo and counts with participation of Marcelo Moreira and Felipe Andreoli (Almah / Angra) among others !

This event is held at Manifesto bar in Sao paulo (Brazil) from 20:00 (Brazilian time)

For more news : Manifesto Bar

Edu Falaschi : 5° Manifesto Rock Fest

Edu Falaschi (Almah / Angra) takes part in 5° Manifesto Rock Fest as sepcial guest, today, at Manifesto Bar in Sao Paulo (Brazil), from 18:00 (Brazilian time).

For more news : Manifesto Bar

Marcelo Barbosa : MB-1 story

Here is an English translation of the MB-1 story, Marcelo Barbosa's model signature, written by the guitarist for his official website !

Translated by Irina Ivanova, Alex Froloff, Andrei Kulikov from The Power Of Metal Russian Community and Marcelo Barbosa Official English Blog.

Marcelo Barbosa : "I have always been a great fan of good instruments and I have had various ones during my career. There were many different brands and models, but every one had its proper peculiarities and its identity. Depending on period of my life, I had a passion to some certain instrument spending a lot of time with it. So, it was in such a way with Ibanez of RG series, with Stratos, with Wolfgang and with Telecasters. It’s impossible to choose only one, since every one has its merit and sometimes also its limits.

Ibanez, model Jem was the one, which attracted my attention the most among all the guitars that have ever passed through my hands. This is the signature guitar of Steve Vai, the guitarist I’ve always admired a lot. Besides a good tune and an excellent tone (in general, in case of older 7WH), the playability of these guitars is sensational. Since I have big hands, the standard fretboard and the access to the last fret were really very good.

On the other hand, besides the tone I’ve always liked the feeling of playing the vintage guitars. Stratos, Les Pauls and Teles have the image of the history of rock and consequently of the history of the guitar. And to go to stage with one of these “children” in my hands always makes me feel good. It feels like becoming a part of the history myself… It’s difficult to explain.... I just like it...

When Tagima invited me to develop my signature model I was very pleased, but at the same time quite preoccupied. I didn’t feel like releasing just a guitar under my name only to push something on the market. It should have been some product of good quality and with its own personality. At that time I was playing a lot the stratos and teles. Even the most modern guitars I played basically were stratos with humbuckers and Floyd Rose. At that moment Tagima already had some very good signature models in this style like the guitars of Edu Ardanuy or Juninho Afram. I decided that I must think how to unite the characteristics I liked the most in the guitars in one instrument. It would be the best way to begin. I took a flight to SP with three guitars in my luggage: Fender Telecaster, White Jem and Fender Strato. Having met Seizi Tagima, I explained him my ideas, which were totally respected.

I like the shape of Telecasters despite the fact that these guitars are not so popular. The problem is that the traditional teles are full of “angles” and it became uncomfortable when I started to play them. There could be a solution: to do MB-1 with the shape of tele, but with more anatomical forms, a bit like the most modern, developed stratos. Besides that, the cut away should be large like on a Jem guitar to get the access to the last frets easy. By the same reason I asked to do the junk between the fretboard and the body basing on the same guitar model. At that time Tagima was already doing a type of a headstock I would like to have, with two locks on the top and four on the bottom. I chose this type of headstock, but I had an impression that I would like more to have it inversed, with four locks on the top and two on the bottom.

Besides the layout of the body, I settled on a pickguard in the style of stratos, although the shape is based on the telecasters type, and also I decided that the input jack should be on the lateral of the guitar like on Jems. The chosen pickups were the same I used on some Tagima Strato: Seymour Duncan 59 at the bridge position, JB at the neck position and a single SSL-1 in the middle. All the hardware is by Gotoh. And then I had some doubt: should we use a dark fretboard or a light one? Besides the aesthetic differences, the fretboards done from the light wood are famous for their harsher and brighter sound, and the ones done from the dark wood provide heavier and stronger sound. Well, everything depends on the combination of freatboard, wood of the body and the pickups, which also influence this factor. Since my Tagima Strato had a light wood fretboard, first I decided to choose rosewood fretboard with ivory and cedar body. Thus, the first prototype of this guitar was done and not so many things have been changed since then.

A few years later we had a new conversation, this time with my partner Marcio Zaganin who takes care of the development of Tagima instruments, and a few things were improved. Basically, the position of some switches was changed a little bit, and the edges were smoothed even more making the instrument to be more anatomic and comfortable.

According to those changes, the bind was also moved again. Finally, the back side was changed from black to Sunburst, and the model was ready to be released.
During the last years this one has been my main instrument on stage as well as in the studio and its price/benefit is one of the best on the market. I’m really proud to have this partnership with Tagima over so many years and to have this opportunity to develop MB-1. They are the first company, who believed in my music and started to support me. Such companies like Tagima, who support Brazilian music, are essential for the development of our musical market.
Don’t miss the opportunity to get to know MB-1."

** Body: Cedar
** Fret board: Size 43mm (1st fret), 52.3mm (12the fret) Rosewood 24 frets with abalone dots
Sensors: 1 59 Model (neck),1 SSL-1 (center) and 1 JB (bridge) of Seymour Duncan
** 5-way switch controles, 1 volume and 1 tone
** Bridge: Floyd Rose System by Gotoh
** Hardware: Gotoh
** Hardware color: chrome
** Color: Sunburst with black pickguard

For more news : Marcelo Barbosa Official Website / Marcelo Barbosa Official English Blog

Almah France Blog : playlist of the month

Here is the new playlist of the month :

• Shade Of My Soul (Almah, Fragile Equality, 2008)
• Birds Of Prey (Almah, Fragile Equality, 2008)
• Golden Empire (Almah, Almah, 2006)
• Break All The Welds (Almah, Almah, 2006)

Enjoy ;)

Fan-Club : novelties of the month !

" Hi everybody ;)

Almah European Fan-Club webmaster here !

Here are the novelties of the month on the fan-club website !

** Tab of the month : "Magic Flame" riff in Guitar Pro format with explanations in PDF and the extract in audio wave.

** Screensavers / wallpapers : 2 new Almah's screensavers and 4 Almah's wallpapers are available on the Scary Zone.

** New service of the Fan-Club : Fans can send their requests to the webmaster to have the Almah's screensavers and wallpapers in a personalized size !

** Christmas on Almah European Fan-Club : The Fan-Club has a surprise for all the Almah's fans playing guitar and bass !
Don't forget to visit the Fan-Club on next December 25th !

And don't forget : registration on the Fan-Club is FREE !!!

See ya soon on the Scary Zone ;)"

The Almah European Fan-Club Webmaster.

For more news : Almah European Fan-Club