The band NXZero released a special edition of the album last Friday (15th). Now with the songs remixed and remastered, including the modern and immersive spatial audio experience, 15 years after its release debut original. If 2023 had started full of emotions for fans of NXZero with the celebratory tour Sooner or laterthe end of this year still held big surprises.
“After a few years of separation, NX Zero reunite for a successful tour in Brazil. Nothing more fitting than the release of the album ‘Agora’, one of his best known and most acclaimed albums by fans, in a new mix and Dolby Atmos version, to celebrate this meeting“, He says Paolo Limapresident of Universal Music Brasil.
Now it was the album that consolidated the success of NXZero at a national level. The original recording has been carefully remixed by Marcelinho Ferraz in the Head Media studios, in São Paulo, taking into account the current consumption of music through digital channels. Mastering was the responsibility of the award winner Carlos Freitasfrom the Classic Master studio, in Florida (USA).
“It was incredible to do this work with an album from a band that represents so much for Brazil. Revisit the songs, listen to them younger, make the timbres more modern and, as special processes, create new mixes also for spatial audio/Dolby Atmos and vinyl masters. For me, saving this classic album was an extremely important job“, says Marcelinho Ferraz.
Going back in time a little, it was July 2008 and the NXZero He had already attracted attention in the São Paulo rock scene since mid-2002, with an ever-growing program of shows and fans that multiplied with each performance. After the independent album Dialogue? (2004), the band released its first album in 2016, NXZerowhich was produced by Rick Bonadio AND Rodrigo Castanho and distributed on the Arsenal/Universal Music label.
The album confirmed what the young rock scene already indicated: the songs Reasons and emotions, For the last time AND next to me broke into the radio and invaded the headphones of thousands of teenagers throughout Brazil, anchored to the then growing Internet communication and the full support of music channels, such as MTV and Multishow. In 2007, the band won the New Artist category, at the Multishow Awards, and the Artist of the Year and Hit of the Year trophies, from the VMB.
With this “read” ready, the album Now came to a market eager for the band and with a NXZero completely in line with his audience and his personal and social issues, deeply understanding a generation. Musically refined by the weight of rock and hardcore and supported by existential and romantic lyrics, the boys from Sao Paulo passed like a tractor, opening up all possible and imaginable spaces in the music market in the first decade of the 2000s.
Radio, TV programs, music channels, festivals and concertgoers from all over Brazil wanted the NX Zero. And the record Now exploded nationwide, bringing hits like Sooner or later, From now on, Letters to you AND Good or badalso winning the Latin Grammy as best Brazilian rock album, together with Titãs. The work, considered the most commercial of the group, further consolidated the band’s career in Brazil, which once again won the main categories of the VMB (Artist, Clip and Hit of the Year) and the Multishow Award (Best Group and Best Singer, for Di Ferrero).
“This was one of the best albums I made with the band. The repertoire is very good, it has the best rock of the time and very interesting lyrics. On this album the band played a lot and we achieved excellent results sonically too. The Latin GRAMMY® was the award for this work“, Remember Rick Bonadio. The new edition of Now in spatial audio and remastered, features the 15 original tracks, including special appearances from the rapper Tulio Dek in songs Good or bad AND Between the linesand former members of the band Rouge, Aline Wirley AND Karin Hilsin the choir of Letters to you. Other highlights of the album include the participation, for the first time, of a orchestra (In the song Sooner or later), the reinterpretation of success Just another loveIn Lulu Santosand the recording of the song Silencemade up of band members Fresno.
After the release of the album, the singer’s career NXZero continued to take off, especially the singer’s popularity By Ferrero. The music From now on it became the opening theme of the series Training (Rede Globo) e Letters to you it was also included in the soundtrack of the same season, followed by the song Good or badthe following year, 2009, also on the occasion of the inauguration.
With the success of the tour Sooner or later After a six-year hiatus, the NXZero acquires more vigor and strength for 2024, the year in which By Ferrero (vocal), Cabbage Rocha (guitar and acoustic guitar), Fi Ricardo (guitar), Caco Grandino (low) e Daniel Weksler (drums) will complete 20 years of recording career. The album Now will also receive a previously unreleased vinyl edition, with a release date to be announced soon.
Source: Terra
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