Progressive Rock > FramePictures
FramePictures are a five-piece group from Oporto, Portugal.
They've formed in 2004 as "session musicians" at the expense of a solo Portuguese "artist" that intended to blow up the charts with his music, fame and charisma. After six months of rehearsal sessions (every single one without the presence of the paying "big star"), Artur Jorge (Drummer & Producer) came to the idea of using the opportunity to start up an instrumental band, in the likes of "Planet X meets Joe Satriani".
The band took off following diverse directions musically, with various moods and style choices from song to song, which obviously pointed to having fewer songs but longer and meshed up pieces altogether instead. With the main structural backbone or "frame" figured out, then the band tried out with old progressive - rock references, such as Rush's masterpiece "Moving Pictures", to add tiny bits of flavoring musical expertise, hence the "pictures".
Then came the evident need to transform FramePictures from an instrumental and somewhat boring ensemble into the dazzling and conceptual musical challenge that it is today, so enter Tiago Delgado (Vocals), arriving from the heavy-metal community and a master of the hard tasks that involve power-metal singing. Tiago soon adapted to FramePictures non-catalogue approach to music and changed all the "metal clichés" into a modern and more interpretative style of singing.
FramePictures entered the studio in 2009 with sound engineer Ivo Magalhaes and produced the "Remember It" album. The work is a landmark in Portugal, being the first since 1978's "Jose Cid – 10 Mil Anos Entre Venus e Marte" progressive-rock epic. "Remember It" is a 78 minute display of youth with experience, of experimental post-metal with progressive rock and of artistic irreverence with classic wisdom.