Arranjado e produzido pela banda Código Genérico, o disco foi gravado no João Neto Studio - Passo Fundo/RS (2003). O trabalho traz novas versões de renomados artistas brasileiros, como Os Tribalistas (Velha Infância), Os Mutantes (Ando meio desligado), O Rappa (A minha alma), Belchior (Como nossos pais) e Cláudio Zoli (Noite de prazer). O grupo era formado por Diego Motta (vocais), Márcio Noal (guitarras), Norton Severo (bateria), Samuel Quadros (teclados) e Douglas Voss (baixo).
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David Gilmor is one of the best guitarists in the world and a huge influence on me. His ideas and his solos are beautiful and awe-inspiring to many guitarists. This particular solo from Pulse live version is one of my favorites.
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To fluidly improvise needs more than just learnt tools like scales, arpeggios and patterns and the application of these during the chord progression. Improvisation is a language that has to be spoken constantly.
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While spending three months in Italy in 2020, due to the Covid-19 situation, I coudn't practice with my Fender Stratocaster, a guitar which I truely love. Instead I honed my jazz skills on a Cort guitar I bought in Brazil.
How many times would we need to relive our lives in order to learn from our mistakes? This is the central question of a book that narrates a day in the life of four people: Genovês, an elderly man in an advanced stage of dementia who spends all his time disturbing the streets of Vila Mariana; Daniel, a terminal cancer patient and publicist by profession ,who wants one last night of passion with his ex-girlfriend although she is married; and the brothers Silvio and Bernardo, college students of the University of São Paulo who, although involved in the blackmail of a girl with whom one of them had a previous relationship, prepare to go to a rally against the leader of the current government . A reader of Joyce, Márcio finds in this work a way to pay tribute to the Irish writer, borrowing from him a narration structure similar to that used in Ulysses.
There are five central characters in this book, Buck, Cassidy, Sarge, Zero and Bishop; all partakers in a war that we, the reader does not know where, when, why or against what enemy it was waged. The characters spend the night in a clearing, awaiting rescue after the rest of their platoon was killed. The story ensues over alternating chapters where we uncover the reasons that led them to this Kafkaesque war. The trouble for the reader is to solve the mystery of which character unveiled is which considering that they are only called by their nicknames in the chapters about the war. In this book we see another example of Noal’s preferred character model; that of the empty, lonely man, crushed by the frustrations of life, disappointed by the loss of his dreams, somewhat of a living corpse who despite the appearance of success and happiness is in fact leading an existence of silent desperation.
The theme of the duality between reality and phenomena has always fascinated philosophers. From Plato to Schopenhauer, through to Kant et al, many claimed that the world we live in is nothing more than an illusion, apparition, a mirage. The real world, the very thing-in-itself, of reality as it is without the distortion of our senses, would be forever unintelligible to our understanding. Therefore, it is not possible to have any true idea about it, only a representation. Desestilhaços discusses precisely this duality, between what is visible and invisible, what needs to be hidden and what has to be shown. Noal differs from these aforementioned philosophers in two ways. He is both less and more ambitious than they were. Less because he reduces the object of his literary investigation to a mere fraction of reality, that which is represented by human emotion. More because he intends to move these feelings from the shadows of the hidden world and bring them forth into light, exposing the truths of all their nakedness and ugliness.
From his magnificent debut novel, Jangadas, released in 2016 to this his sixth book, Marcio Noal's talent for story-telling is clearly evident. The wonder of these 26 short stories is in their destruction of the barriers that confine beings to their own place in the space-time continuum. By deconstructing what is considered reality, allows for multi-combinations of people and stories to be woven and interlinked. Fictional characters meet famous identities from our past and present. Sophisticated theories from elite philosophical and scientific society appear alongside myths, fantasy, cultural tales. Historical events in human history are treated in the same way as fantastical tales from the mind of Noal. The limits of the plausible and possible now boundless. To him, the laws of our very nature can be placed in a proverbial mixing bowl to create the ultimate literary manifesto.
Leaving behind the world of social criticism that encapsulated Jangadas, Noal looks inwardly at the individual, the broken dreams, the dashed hopes, the trials and tribulations of the mundane. With a sharp merciless gaze, he parades before our eyes a litany of lonely, alienated, suffering creatures. This loneliness that suffocates them is inherent in all of us, some more suited to deal with it than others. The concepts of family and love are central to this book but not as we know them. Instead, in Dead Eyes we have a father doing his utmost not to return home to his wife and children. In Chronicle of rejected love and Etipathogeny love is portrayed as useless, devoid of common connections and interests. Nor does society even care, for what should it care, being full of vain people professing to know something about nothing at all.
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Set in the arid, barren north east of Brazil lies the fictional city of Jangadas, where nothing ever seems to happen. Since the magnetite industry declined and the influx of eager migrants halted, this plunged the city into a kind of stupor, a silence broken only by the gossip and poisonous backbiting of its inhabitants. Everything starts to unravel when the poet Sallim is arrested, accused of the murder of the butcher Ataídes, a black Jew of German descent. The investigation is conducted by the powerful Floriano Costa e Aguiar, who, in addition to being the chief police officer, also holds the positions of mayor, vice mayor, prosecutor, judge, president of the City Council and director of the electoral board. To assist in the investigation, the famous Belgian detective Gaspard Riquet, who had previously worked with Hercule Poirot, was brought from Codó, where he was studying the black arts of macumba.
Brazilian with Italian ancestry, Marcio started playing guitar at the age of sixteen. He moved to Passo Fundo in 2000, where he studied for two years a Bachelor's Degree in Classical Guitar and a Full Degree in Music at the UPF. In 2001, he created the band Código Genérico and recorded, in 2003 and 2004, the original album Soul Brasileiro and two cover albums. The band rose to fame with the song Inconsciente Zen, regularly played on local radio stations. Berçário Atlântida, one of the biggest music awards in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, named the band among their top five bands in the region of Passo Fundo consecutively for two years.
In 2004, Marcio released his first solo album: Sinestesia, to acclaim. He went on to publish five novels: Jangadas (2016), which was among the ten finalists of the Kindle award, carried out by Amazon (he unfortunately ended up being disqualified for living abroad and for having published the book twelve days before the deadline); Desabitados (2017); Vidas Recorrentes (2018); Desestilhaços (2019); and Diálogos de Uma Realidade Implausível em Mundos Alegóricos Possíveis (2021); and a collection of short stories: Certidão Negativa de Óbito (2017).
In 2014, he produced the short film Barbara: study no. 1, which was shown publicly by the SESC cinema, in São Paulo. In 2017, his poem Apenas was one of the winners of the poetry prize in literature of the region Presidente Prudente, SP. He has been a music teacher for twenty years and since 2015 he resides in Galway, Ireland.
