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Discography
Members featured in the album
CLAUDIO MOMBERG - Keyboards, bass, guitar and vocals
Guest musicians:
JAIME SCALPELLO - Vocals
EDUARDO CUESTA - Drums
JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS - Bass
PABLO COLLARTE - Guitars
LEONARDO BASSO - Guitars
ÁLVARO GRAVES - Guitars
JORGE SÁNCHEZ - Guitars
Members featured in the album
CLAUDIO MOMBERG - Keyboards, bass, guitar and vocals
Guest musicians:
JAIME SCALPELLO - Vocals and chorus
JAVIER SEPÚLVEDA - Electric and rhythm guitars
EDUARDO CUESTA - Drums
DAMIAN WILSON - Vocals
ALY ROMERO - Guitar
JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS - Bass
PABLO COLLARTE - Electric and rhythm guitars
LEONARDO BASSO - Guitars
ÁLVARO GRAVES - Electric & FX guitar
Members featured in the album
CLAUDIO MOMBERG - Keyboards and vocals
JAIME SCALPELLO - Vocals
CHRISTIAN CLAVERÍA - Guitars
JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS - Bass, pedals and vocals
EDUARDO CUESTA - Drums
Integrantes en el álbum
CLAUDIO MOMBERG - Keyboards, bass, guitar and vocals
JAIME SCALPELLO - Vocals and chorus
GABRIEL HIDALGO - Lead and rhythm guitar
JUAN RICARDO WEILER - Drums
JOSÉ LUIS RAMOS - Bass
PAULA VILCHES - Vocals and chorus
Guest musicians:
CLIVE NOLAN - Keyboards
DAMIAN WILSON - Vocals
STEVE ROTHERY - Guitars
Biography
The whole idea of a solo album started back in early 2001, when Subterra played a gig in a city called Concepción, around 7 hours south from Santiago. It was then when Mylodon Records' head Juan Barrenechea approached me saying "why don't you make a solo album? perhaps you could also invite some other musicians as well". My first reaction was "who on earth would be interested in hear such a thing??" but after thinking about it, i thought "why not?" in the first place, I'd be doing it for me, just for the pleasure to see an album where all decisions were taken by myself, and all music and lyrics written by myself as well. I think it's a similar feeling like to have a baby, a part of you in a new being.
I started writing songs for it, and also chosen two of the very old ones that I had presented to Subterra when I joined the band in early 2000, that weren't used by the band. I also started to think about possible collaborations. I remember being in an Entrance gig (featuring singer Jaime Scalpello) and asking him if he would like to add his vocals. We clicked immediatly, mainly because of our mutual admiration to the ASIA band (all eras), something that you don't find very often here in Chile. The natural choice for the drums was Eduardo Cuesta, who did a great job, although he was very nervous about the lack of time to rehearse and prepare the recording sessions. Since I always considered myself a bass player who could also play keyboards on ocasion, I decided to play all bass myself. and several great guitarists helped with their input, like the main one Pablo Collarte, plus Subterra's Leonardo basso, with whom we reorded his parts in a quick visit he did (he was living in Canada at that time), also Alvaro Graves, Jorge Sánchez and myself... I ended playing more guitar parts than any of them, but hey, the disc HAD to be finished at some time! at that time Subterra was also working on the second album, and the guys pushed me very badly to give them one of the SETI songs, that was a piano solo. After I got tired of they begging, I donated the song, that evolved to what is "Duelo Ciego" on the Subterra album, so I had to replace it with a brand new song, that was "Dangerous Paths". I wanted a different feeling on the rhythm section so I invited my good friend José Luis Ramos (aka. Mr.Mellon) on the bass, who also did a great job on it. In the early stages I emailed a couple of guitar stars like Guthrie Govan and Steve Hackett asking them if they'd want to participate, but unfortunately they were not available. I intended the project to use the name "SEVEN" since I feel very close to that number and have a few coincidences with it, but since my major influence, keyboardist Tony Banks released his 2004 album called "SEVEN - A Suite for orchestra, I thought it would be better to change the name, so after my great interest for astronomy and extra-terrestrial issues, I thought SETI would be a perfect name for it, honoring the wonderful institute for search for extra terrestrial Intelligence.
The album was ready by December 2005, and I ended up using all of the ideas discarded by Subterra, so it was a pretty "light" album, at least compared to the Subterra one. There was never an intention of doing another album or playing live, but since the great reviews and the pleasure that was for me to make that album, I decided to start writing another one after Subterra's final early-2006 gig. When i realized there was going to be another SETI album, I realized that I could also consider the chance to play live.
More mails were sent and phone calls were made, and I could get back some familiar names as Jaime Scalpello, Eduardo Cuesta, Pablo Collarte, Leonardo Basso, José Luis Ramos and Alvaro Graves, as well as some new friends that got on board on what i like to call "my second solo album". Great talents as the amazing singer Damian Wilson and guitarists Javier Sepúlveda and Alonso Romero, from the mexican band "Toccata".
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