''No Gravity'' is the first solo album of

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian heavy metal guitarist

Kiko Loureiro Pedro Henrique "Kiko" Loureiro (born 16 June 1972) is a Brazilian guitarist. He has been a member of several heavy metal bands, including Angra and Megadeth. Career Loureiro began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 11. He stud ...

. Kiko recorded with

Mike Terrana Mike Terrana (born January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer. His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, Canada, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing m ...

in drums. It had a worldwide release in 2005. Both a "No Gravity" songbook and a playback CD were also issued and are highly sought-after by musicians and fans alike. The title, "No Gravity" comes from the feeling that musicians feels while playing. ''"The further we know and dominate the rational and mathematical part of the music, the intuitive parts take control of us and really take us to 'travel' with the music we're playing. It's this point that the musician wanna hit the people, but he must achieve with himself first. For this feeling I have chosen this term: 'No Gravity'"''

Track listing

# "Enfermo" - 04:02 # "Endangered Species" - 05:10 # "Escaping" - 05:34 # "No Gravity" - 04:23 # "Pau-de-Arara" - 07:00 # "La Force de L'âme" - 04:32 # "Tapping Into My Dark Tranquility" - 02:12 # "Moment of Truth" - 04:29 # "Beautiful Language" - 02:00 # "In a Gentle Way" - 05:33 # "Dilemma" - 04:12 # "Feliz Desilusão" - 03:39 # "Choro de Criança" - 01:10

Personnel

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, classical guitar,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, keyboards,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

and bass *

– drums

References

{{Authority control Kiko Loureiro albums 2005 albums