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At age six, Alec Mendonça stumbled across the Boston debut album along with
some old Beatles records which changed his life forever. When he turned 14 he
started playing more professionally and got a Luthier home made bass. At age
18 his grandmother bought him his first fender Jazz Bass special, even
recording an album in 1996 that had some air play in Brazil but then it all came
to a halt due to sickness in the family. After a hiatus of 14 years taking care of
family business, Alec Mendonça was finally back to the world he loved, the
music world.
N.O.W. was born then, and by joining forces with stellar Brazilian Keyboardist
Jean Barros, all the basis of the songs were done in Studio 430. After 3 months
Alec put down 12 songs! Alec had to travel to the studio so many times he lost
count of that, sometimes spending the whole day away from home for months,
but it was worth it. With the demo CD in hand, he only wanted the right vocals
to do it and although Alec can sing, his voice is more of a background voice.
Taking his chances, he decided to send the tapes to some people he knew
through the internet and caught the attention of gifted vocalist Philip Bardowell
(ex-Peter Criss, Ace Frehley from KISS, ex-Beach Boys, ex-Unruly Child) who
loved the songs so much that he decided to sing the songs for Alec.
“Force of Nature” the debut in 2010 (ESM204) is indeed a force to be
reckoned with and has so many twists and turns you will so easily get wrapped
up in its universal appeal. The reviews were astounding with magazines
praising how good the band sounded.
After 3 years in the making a new line-up was required for Alec to achieve his
so sought after sound. So Alec found what seemed to be the main ingredient for
his sophomore album; the guitar player Juno Moraes. Juno is all heart and
melody and his licks are to die for. A new drummer was also required and this
time Lars Chriss was called to mix and master the album. Lars gave the new
album the punch and life it needed so bad to sound like a real winner. During
the recordings of the second album Alec also lost a very close friend who was
the close we can get to an Angel at the tender age of 17 due to Leukaemia, these
are the times one wonders If there's a God.... and so the result was a much
darker and moodier album. Alec also found the need to transmit all the rage and
pain he went through after his friend's passing and wrote a song to exteriorize
his feelings, this song is ''No One Can Feel It's Over''.... It also has to be said
that The NOW sound has leanings towards Foreigner and Rainbow in places…
no bad thing.
If you liked the first album for all the right reasons and Foreigner, Journey. We
can guarantee a Magical Mystery Tour with this second instalment, full of
surprises, hooks, choruses and loads of layers of guitars. NOW are back with a
second album that will just set the pace again, this is a much stronger release
than the debut and is bound to impress both fans old and new.
