Fernando Alge

Fernando Alge is a musician from São Paulo (Brazil) with multiple influences like The Beatles, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Fred Frith and many others related to jazz, experimental, free, prog rock, psychedelic, and tropicalia. With DrFantastico band recorded two albums and three under his name. Made songs and recorded for Violeta De Outono and Invisible Opera Company Of Tibet with Fabio Golfetti actual Gong's guitarist. Also worked for Lanny Gordin, the most important guitarist of Brazilian tropicalia, a revolutionary musical movement held in the sixties. Noisy Paintings and Strident Pictures are tribute albums to the painters that inspired him throughout the process of making it. The cover is by Selene Alge. Here the influences varied from experimental guitar music to free improvisation (especially on the last albums). To the more figurative ones, he chose to play inside a harmonic structure closer to tonality. Tupibopp is an album inspired by Brazilian rhythms like bossa nova and chorinho with some jazzy moods. Besides showing his love for jazz, on Garupa he had the honor to play with his master, Mozart Mello, a superb guitarist that also taught Kiko Loureiro. Fotografia de um silêncio and Ácido litúrgico are 2 albuns of free experimental electronic music, made on a guitar synthetiser. Capolavoro vol. 1 was inspired by Wim Wenders and Glauber Rocha and was intended to be a soundscape album inspired by the films they made.