''Fora da Grei'' ( Portuguese for ''Outside the Flock'') is the debut album by the

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ian musician Rogério Skylab; self-released in 1992, it is the musician's only album to come out in vinyl formatRogério Skylab – Biografia
as well as his only main studio release not to be part of a series. Its title is intended to be a pun on the Portuguese-language term "fora da lei" ("

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"). The track "Naquela Noite" would be re-recorded for his next release, ''

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''. "Blues do Para-Choque" was re-recorded for '' Skylab III'', "Casas da Banha" for '' Skylab VIII'' and "Palavras São Voláteis" for '' Melancolia e Carnaval''. The album can be downloaded for free on Skylab's official website.

Background

Prior to the album's release, Rogério Skylab (stage name of Rogério Tolomei Teixeira), a graduate in

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from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, worked as a bank officer at a Banco do Brasil agency; even though he had performed with a short-lived punk rock group, Setembro Negro, during the mid- to late 1980s,Entrevista / Skylab
Skylab once claimed that he originally never thought about pursuing a career as a musician, instead wanting to dedicate himself to literature or becoming a teacher. In 1991, "just for fun", Skylab travelled to

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, to partake at a well-known

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which used to be held there. His entry, "Samba do

" (from which he subsequently took his stage name), won the festival's first-place cash prize. He then used the money to finance the production of ''Fora da Grei''. Despite the album's "dismal production quality", since "at the time independent records in Brazil were like

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" in Skylab's words, ''Fora da Grei'' was critically acclaimed to the point of even being considered one of the best releases of the year by the ''

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'', and the musician was invited many times by

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to promote it on his

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s, ''Jô Soares Onze e Meia'' and later the ''

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'', what would effectively launch his musical career. However, Skylab wouldn't work on a follow-up until 1999, when he released his first of ten eponymous albums.

Legacy

In 2023, "Naquela Noite" was chosen by music news website Esquina Musical as one of "MPB's scariest songs".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rogério Skylab.

Personnel

* Rogério Skylab – vocals * Alexandre Guichard –

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* Raimundo Nicioli – keyboards * João Ataíde – bass guitar, production * Edson Cortes, Don Fla – percussion * Ayrton Seixas Jr. – cover art * Adriano Raimundo – photography * Tita Albuquerque – mixing * Ricardo Misutani – mastering * Marcos Petrilo – executive production

References

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