ACIENTE RELEASES "ROCK" IN 2011 - 1978 / 2011

Acidente 2011 - Zeca Pereira, Scubi Jenné, Guto Rolim e Paulo Malária

Acidente 2011: Zeca Pereira, Scubi Jenné, Guto Rolim and Paulo Malária

There was a time when things seemed they were going to happen. This applies to almost everything, in this case the subject is Brazilian garage rock. Acidente, "that band that nobody knows but everyone has heard of," was founded in 1978 in Rio by journalism students and came to stand out in the underground musical scene of Rio de Janeiro, but later, as they launched their independent albums, has been meticulously disinvented by the media, along with many other bands in the same situation, so that half a dozen or twenty minions could occupy exclusively all available space and, therefore, without competitors enjoy all the fame and fortune that brief affair between the Brazilian audience and rock had to offer.

There were two bands with the same name Acidente, both different in time and style, with nothing in common except the name and the producer / keyboardist. The second Acidente, created in 1989, had a proposal of being primarily instrumental, with progressive influences, and his work is well documented on CD, such as fusion followed from 2003, with old and new members keep alive the flame through sporadic releases. However, the original Acidente, the first and only "Old ACA", remained restricted to old vinyl - until now, when we celebrate 30 years of the group's first LP, "Guerra Civil (Civil War)".

Two garage bands ("groups" as it was called then) gave rise to Acidente. In One Night Only Band, formed in 1974, played Guto Rolim, Zeca Pereira and Paulo Malária, doing a mixture of basic rock, ballads and difficult subjects to label. Meanwhile, Helio "Scubi" Jenné and Raul Branco were making their seventies rock operas (which were never made public) under the name Leviathan. The meeting of Scubi with Raul and Mala in the Communication School at UFRJ, in 1977, came the ephemeral The Merry Compadres of Windsor and the following year, the Acidente finally nobly debuted in a troubled university festival grounds, where there were all the ingredients: cries, turmoil, insults, vomiting. The Acidente was officially launched, with the proposal, which has changed substantially over the years, just as its members.

ticket of the first Acidente concert, in 9-15-1979

ticket of the first Acidente concert, in 9-15-1979

The times that followed were of intense creativity and Aça presence became easy in university hostels and night dives, where his concerts attracted a small crowd of rockers eager for something different and authentic, which raise your spirits to travel hallucinating and abstracted by some hours of the fact that they live a miserable Third World dictatorship. Acidente used to make the head of his musicians and his fans also.

Guerra Civil, was the first indie rock album of Rio de Janeiro

Everything was going well and a record seemed to be a natural consequence, however, as no label was interested (for several years, the national catalog of rock came down to three or four well known names), the band's keyboardist pissed off and decided to produce and the result of inexperience was the first LP of an independent rock band from Rio de Janeiro: "Guerra Civil (Civil War)", which came out in June 1981. In the photo, the formation of the time: Mala (keyboards, vocals), Guto (Bass), Scubi (guitar, vocals), Zeca (drums) and guitarist Fernando Sá (Samuca), who left the band shortly after to start his own group. Because then the public's demand for Brazilian rock was becoming unstoppable for the meager investments that were previously major labels in the industry, and new bands began to appear by the dozens every day.

Acidente plays at Theatre Lemos Cunha in 1981

Acidente plays at Theatre Lemos Cunha in 1981

Acidente plays at Theatre Cunha Lemos - 1981

With their album in hand, members of Acidente invested the extra function of publishers have discovered the reality: the doors of the media, print and sound, were closed to independents. Almost every second or millimeters was priceless, and all was allotted (or would pay ...). "Civil War" faced and almost complete ignorance in the public square was burned in protest, until a program ("Dust and Country") of a large audience of Rio radio (98 FM) became fascinated by the band "The Cowboy and the Debutante" and began to run it every day, including placing it several times in the 1st place. This was the summer of 1981 to 1982.

Immediatly thereafter, came online in its experimental phase, Fluminense FM, "The Damned" and just played the record in its radio programming several tracks incessantly. By the time of Carnival "the Damned" was the great novelty among the rocker youth in Rio and Acidente had his chance at gold.

Like something had to have gone terribly wrong (or you would not now be reading the liner notes of a modest independent disk), at that very moment, while neophytes trocentos espoucavam, ACA was disbanded and it was so precious for months. To paraphrase a then-candidate for governor, has saddled the horse only once and the accident did not set up.

Photo collage of Acidente

Acidente photo collage

In this new home of Rock, Acidente was restructured and returned to stages with a modified line up but to find a time even harder for independents. The Brazilian pop-rock had become a very profitable business for some few feudal lords. When in mid-1983 the band re-entered the studio to record its 2nd vinyl, "Fim do Mundo" (End of the World) (which would be called "Armed Struggle") and ended up inadvertently eponym of another group), the lineup was already the usual basic Mala, Zeca, Guto, Scubi. The effect was as expected: a stone thrown into a dry lake.

Now, even those who gave rise to indie fame had already entered the big dance. Do what? Life goes on. The CD (at the time, single with four songs) "Louse", 1985, confirmed that Acidente had really been a great idea - but for others to get along. A few more musicians passed through the band, which in a climate of growing discouragement still made some gigs here and there, until that in 1987 the hammer was hit: the time of the Acidente - that Acidente - "had run its course". At this point, the "Brazilian Rock" was already a landscape dramatically different from the one that motivated young musicians to form their bands, and no one could imagine that one day the rescue of those insolent recordings would awaken interest, as is evidenced by the fact you are with this CD in hands.