Alex Saba Progressive Music

1. Overdose	is a song to a lovely friend who is a little "over" to my taste, but a great friend at all.
2. Dick Tracy	was played through modem with my brother Beto Frega on keyboards at Curitiba.
3. Amanhecer	Day after day, night after night, this is life... Is this "our" life? (I would like to thank Mr.Peter Gabriel for the idea of recording the first version of this song before dinner).
4. 702	This song was written to a little girl who lives in the house in front of mine and stays all day at the window, on the phone speaking with her boyfriend.
5. Vincent - O Abutre	was written for Mr.Vincent Price and the comedian Jerry Lewis. This was a first-and-only-one take.
6. Parkiño	a song to my little angel, the first idea was to make a happy song, but the boy went sick and my happiness went away. I played this song many times trying to understand why children get sick.
7. Harlekin (Malagueña de Lecuona)	is a fresh and free interpretation of Malagueña. I wrote this song as a tribute to some latin musicians and my own origins. You can hear a citation of Chick Corea's LaFiesta; "tango strings" in memorian to the great Astor Piazzola; the "Santana's percussion" during the the guitar solo. The Arabian organ (There is an Arabian Organ?...) solo is a recollection of my grandfather Darcy.
8. Estudo # 1	has a sort of a classical structure mixed with electric guitar that was fun to play.
9. Suite - The Cicada and the Ant	is a ballet based on the children´s story, but with a different and tragic end: the death of the Cicada and its funeral. Intense use of the synth guitar playing all melodies here.
10. Curitiba	is a beautiful city in the state of Paraná in southern Brazil. This song is dedicated to my brother Beto, to Mr.Orlando, Mr.Mario and all my friends who live there.
11. Martini Seco	is one of my oldest songs. It was written for Mr.Paul Desmond, who says: "I hope my sax do the same effect of a Dry Martini". I agree.
12. Xuxu - The Clown	a song about what is inside the heart of a clown and it's dedicated to a very special one who taught me an important lesson.
13. Angels Can´t Sleep (But can Fly)	a three part song that tells the story of an angel falling to Earth and all the hard work he (or she) has with mankind.
14. Paranoia’s Blues	for those moments when we have to climb a mountain but our thoughts stay in another place (a honkytonk bar with a beer in one hand and looking to some pretty girls).
15. Minueto - Part I & II	is dedicated to my teacher Sergio de Pinna. The first part is an original from the classical composer Roberto de Viséo and the other, some variations of my own. This song was entirely recorded as a guitar solo with no sequencers, only the synth guitar.
16. The Untold Story of Arthur, The King	tells the story of King Arthur (the man from Camelot...) and his hate for Lancelot. It is dedicated to a bad guy.
17. Mr.Davis	a song dedicated to three musical genius: Mr.Miles Davis, Mr.Jaco Pastorius and Mr.Tom Jobim.

29 July 03 August 1997	Angel's Dream at Rio ExpoCD!!!! We are on 3 stands: "On Stage", "Sonhos & Sons" (Marcus Viana) and "Central dos Independentes".
July 16-17 1997	The CDs are on the STORES!!!! Look also at the Rio CD Expo 97. Good job MCK!! Congratulations for all the people who contribute!!!
July 15 1997	The phone rings. I pick up the handler and a voice says: "The CDs are here!!!" The CDs are in my father's house. I will see then tomorrow morning. Another journey begin!
July 14 1997	Good news from Mr.Taciano: the CDs were shipped from SONOPRES and will be here in Rio in 16/july or something near that. I hope everything runs without problem. I will tell these news to Mr.Pasquale (from PennyLane).
July 08 1997	Things are not too well! No news from the actual factory (called SONOPRES)! I will EMail Mr.Taciano tomorrow to ask him about any news. The guys at MCK have no idea about what things are going at SONOPRES but they could ask them!
June 20 1997	Surprise!! I receive a CDR from MCK. When I phone to Mr.Taciano he told me that a completely new copy of the master was send to the factory. The great news we are waiting: 10 to 15 days for the new re-mastered CD Angels Dream come out. Let's begin the count down.
June 10 1997	I receive the new cover's proofs!! Now we have a "Cover Art" Mr.Taciano and Mr.Nataniel did a great job. I sent an EMail to them and I hope they phone me tomorrow. Mr.Pasquale (from "Penny Lane") is working the CD to make the international release. Soon I will have more news about this.
June 02-05 1997	The MCK's director (Mr.Taciano) is doing everything to do a good job. We spoke by phone many times these days. The proofs they send me, were poor because we use diferent monitors and printers. Seeing my own printing copys of the cover's art revealed that. They did a exactly copy of my work. The pictures (you can see here) not display in the same way in their monitors. They use "balanced" professional monitors (I don't know if this term are correct in English) and I use a commom one (Samsung SyncMaster 3Ne). So I am waiting for the new proofs based on my colors. (Next time I will send a print copy with the disks.)
June 03 1997	Today is our first aniversary (look June/03/96)
May 30 1997	I received a poor proof copy of the Cover. I decided to send MCK my owm copy, printed at home (with a Canon BJC600) with the colors that I think are the correct. I sent one copy to PROCON too. Now they will see what I saw.
May 19 1997	The guys at MCK phone me again. They are getting some trouble with the photos (This is not my problem). The work will be done today and they will send me a copy to aprove (or not). Let's wait a little more. I did some contacts througt the Web for shops who could sell the CD, but I'm not happy with the results, better get some people from Brazil.
May 14 1997	Second step: (nothing). Surprise!! The MCK director phone me. He apologized for the mistakes and asked me to send the CDR (reference CD) and the disks with the art, they will redo all the work (good news) I told him that all material were with them, so he will search inside MCK for that. Early afternoom they send me a fax with the excuses. I need to phone to PROCON to thanks Mara, the woman from PROCON.
May 12 1997	First step: I went to PROCON (Consumers Protection) and told what hapenned with the CD's. The woman there pick up the phone and imediatly dial to MCK, spoke with them and send the paper with my complaint. She told me to wait a week. So I will do that.
April 27 1997	An advise for you: NEVER send your work to MCK!! It fails with the contract and the promisses. I will soon begining a judicial proccess against MCK if the guys there don't give me the actual position about the new version of "Angel's Dream".
April 1-19 1997	I was declaring "war" to MCK, when a guy there quickly got a white flag and told me to wait for some news on april/7. We need to wait again (and again and again)!
March 21 1997	A limited version of the CD are in the STORES, only 5 copys in each one. Another version will soon be released. (Everybody is waiting for this, nobody more than myself!!)
March 19 1997	I am waiting the guys from MCK to pick up the wrongs CD's and correct the errors. We need to wait again (and again)!
Some months passed and ...	Everything is wrong (track 14 have an error and the colors' cover too) and we need to do it again. Me and MCK begin a little war because the CD could not be release before christmas - my child (insides me) would like to cry.
August/13/1996	I phone MCK and send back the CDR with the DAT! We need to wait again!
August 10 1996	MCK send me the CDR (a demo of the master CD)! I listen careful and find an error! The Paranoia's Blues (track 14) beginnig is wrong! Meanwhile at All the Best we listen to the CDR. Many people in the store like the music and (good news) want to buy the CD! We are now preparing the press cocktail! You are invited!
July 16 1996	MCK send me the cover's art to the last review. Two mistakes were found. Nothing to worry about, but my telephone line was out and I had some problems to contact MCK.
July 2 1996	Ricardo Calafate help me again inserting the first song without disturbing the others songs in the tape (Great job man!!). We also reviwed all songs. Everything ok. I send the tape back to MCK.
July 1 1996	First Problem: MCK send me back the DAT Tape. There was a error (a Drop Out) in the 1st.song. I need to re-compile this song from the master tape.
June 26 1996	MCK (the factory) phone me. They received the material (DAT Tape and Disk). Now we begin to count the days: 12 days for the test copy and 45 days for the complete work.
June 20 1996	Box send to the factory in São Paulo. Now we have to wait.
June 19 1996	I did all the changes suggest by Augusto (the guy at Detroit) and copied the files to disk. Dat tape and disk packed together. Everything all right to mail tomorrow.
June 18 1996	Good news! The text arrived at my EMail box.
June 14 1996	I'm nervous because the guy in Detroit dont' send me back the text and the factory is still waiting for the cover's art (with text) and the master tape.
June 05 1996	I write an EMail with the cover text to a friend in Detroit to do the grammatic revision.
June 03 1996	I send the the payment's first part to the factory.

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	My songs tell stories about people, life and feelings and I hope you enjoy this work, since this record is for you.