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It all started in 2012 to the music of Pat Metheny. Cousins Daniel Leite
(guitar) and Thiago Albuquerque (synthesizer / piano) listened to the album
Secret Story when the guitarist suggested assembling a band to play
Thiago’s compositions. Fond of rock and its roots in bands like Genesis,
Yes and King Crimson, Daniel went further: he suggested incorporating
Thiago’s melodies, themes and tracks a new version inspired by progressive
rock, and together they began play only those compositions with guitar and
synthesizer / piano, accompanied by drums and electronic bass.
After giving to the compositions an atmosphere of progressive rock, they
thought it was time to incorporate two new members to the band so that the
mixture would be complete, then the quartet was finally formed by Henrique
Penna (drums) and Príamo Brandao (bass), who replaced the bassist Mario
Neto from the first recordings.
From that point on the compositions together absorbed a sound of rock in
its most progressive aspect, and the quartet ended up highlighting the
originality from the fusion of musical influences from each of its members.
The result is instrumental music with a futuristic / space atmosphere,
hence the name UltraNova.
Live performances of the band still have the participation of a fifth
member - a VJ who works together with the projection of high definition
images based on the ambiance created by each specific composition. From
this mix, the videos end up becoming movies, and UltraNova’ songs its own
soundtrack played live, bringing even more to the modern progressive rock
band, where each performance becomes a big show of art involving
performance, video and music altogether on the same stage.