dramatis personae

davis raborn (USA) - bashes the drums

bruno capelas (portugal) - bashes additional drums

mark guertin (canada) - pounds the bass, does the mix

fred lessing (portugal) - sings bits here and there, plays differently shaped guitars, percussion and of course angklung

paulo chagas (portugal) - tortures assorted reed and woodwind instruments and plays an alien

hugo flores (portugal) - vocals

joana baptista-lessing (portugal) - backing vocals on 'ice prospector'

jeff markham (USA) - sings lead vocals

dominic shaw (UK) - sings lead vocals

tayfun (germany) - vocals on 'beyond multiplicity'

vasco patrício (portugal) - lead guitar on 'one'

hugo flores (portugal) - lead vocals on 'expansion'

concept

the concept behind the album is based in part on stephen baxter’s mind-blowing scientific/philosophical fiction and non-fiction (any speculation about the future, however ‘scientific’, is of course fiction; and when you think about it, so is the past – even our own). my  ramblings about the various religious are in part based upon histoire générale de dieu by gerald messadié for the christian part, my dear love inês for the part about ancient egypt, and a variety of sources for the islamic part.

this album stands for my secret hope that all of mankind will one day Get Together, or at least get its act together. musicians from 6 countries did so to bring this album from tiny portugal to life.

Read the confusing storyline and even more confusing explanation of the various tracks.

superfluous notes on the music, by the snooty author himself

first of all i should say that i made no attempt to create radically new music, nor to explore new paths. i simply wanted this to be music as i like it. thus, and unavoidably, you will hear a lot of influences, which I cannot deny, nor was i trying to follow isildurs bane's maxime of trying to reshape music all the time. except of course for the ethnic excusions, i didn't consciously copy anything, nor did i try to convey 'this or that sound', but as i listen to music constantly, and - like anyone else - have been doing so since i was a child, i let my subconscious do whatever it saw fit to convey what i wanted to convey. if you find anything unexpected or new, then it is either a coincidence, the work of the musicians who recorded with me, or else a result of my lousy playing. so much for wanton or unwanted originality.

as to my musical style, i have been criticised often that it is too fragmented, not coherent. well, this is the way i want music to be! i remember listening to a queen song called flick of the wrist and being blown away by the sudden and constant changes, as if this small song contained lots of different songs. i remember setting the needle back to the beginning of the track again and again, until i knew it by heart. fabric of space divine has many instances where tiny ideas are presented and dropped, to be developed in a different shape at a different place on the album. or not. but at least i hope to have achieved what i myself appreciate in music: that a) the listener has to go back to the beginning of the album to grasp it, and b) if you think a melody has not been repeated often enough, you can take advantage of technology and listen to it again, if you liked it that much...