Edu Falaschi - Moonlight

Published May 05 2016

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Genre	Acoustic/Ballad	Edu Falaschi	Vocals
Tracks	9	-	Guitar
Running time	39 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Pride & Joy Music	-	Bass
Release	May 20, 2016	-	Drums
Country	Brazil	-	Keyboard
Producer	---
Similar artists	---

Edu Falaschi's inaugural solo record is a thing on which he has chosen to make kind of acoustic rearrangements of selected material that he once recorded with Angra and Almah.

7 out of 9 songs originate from the Angra efforts Rebirth and Temple Of Shadows, which in fact is quite unsurprisingly since he probably did have his most famous moments with the band during those 2 records in particular. Most of the songs are credited to him in the first place, either as sole composer or as co-writer, which isn't always the case when a singer decides to lay down new vocals for already existing songs, so kudos to that.

The Brazilian native is on Moonlight mainly accompanied by acoustic guitar, piano and different string instruments and naturally he uses his voice in a way that's suitable for these versions. Quite a few of the featured songs are actually good or at least satisfactory in their original versions as, for the most part, progressive power metal songs, but the adaptation to lower tempo and less kick-ass emotions definitely makes them come out unexciting and deflated and I think that they become kind of boring without the original speed and effect.

I believe that this is an album which people will very likely only listen to once, and probably just out of curiosity, and if someone hasn't heard the songs prior to listening to these versions, I reckon that they will find this one to be pretty pointless and bland. Personally I have of course listened to this stuff quite a few times, but exclusively just to get a better idea of its content and to be fair to the actual creation, because in all honesty, otherwise I would have only given it one single spin too.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	6	5	7	3

Summary
3 chalices of 10 - Tobbe