1) A German Black Met… Read Full Bio ↴Gram is a name shared by more than one artist:
1) A German Black Metal band. Released "May I Never Hear Your Voices Again" full-length in 2009.
2) A Dutch indieband around Marg van Eenbergen (Gram is her first name, spelled backwards). Van Eenbergen gained prominence in the Dutch indie scene as the front woman of Amsterdam-based indie band Seedling. After Seedling's split in 2004, Van Eenbergen worked with Dutch band About and started working on her début album as Gram. Four-Letter Word (2008) was released to critical acclaim. The second (poppier!) Gram album, Play Me is set for release in October 2011.
3) A British electronic musician. Graham Love had been using Impulse Tracker to compose hip-hop and drum'n'bass influenced electronica for several years before German independent label Underscan put out his debut EP in 2002 as a limited vinyl release. He has since toured Switzerland with Underscan, appeared on a compilation for Underscan, and appeared on another compilation for Kraked. Lately he hasn't had enough time for music and has pretty much stopped producing.
Gram stands for a Good Reason to Ask for More. Not to be confused with Gramm (aka Farben, Jan Jelinek).
4) A Brazilian band that existed between 2002 and 2007.
Brazilian band who met a relatively big success when the hit "Você Pode Ir Na Janela", from their eponymous first album, got good airplay on radio stations around the country. The video for the song, an animation featuring the love delusions of a cat, was partly responsible for that.
In 2005, they released a MTV Live DVD special, featuring all the songs from the first album, a Beatles cover ("Across The Universe"), an Ira! cover ("Dias de Luta") and a new song called "Melhor Assim".
Gram's first album was heavily influenced by britpop bands like Beatles and Coldplay. Most of the songs are guitar-based, with two or three guitars but unlike many bands, there are lots of keyboards, some songs were composed in the piano ("Sonho Bom", for example), some time signature shifts ("Você Pode Ir Na Janela" has a 4/4 beat but its guitars follow a waltz-like 3/4 figure; "Quase Ilusão" doubles its tempo at the end; "Faça Alguma Coisa" is a fast 3/4 song).
Some similarities between singer Sergio Filho's voice and lyrics with Los Hermanos raised some comparison between these bands (even though the sound and compositional style of the two bands are quite different). With the intention to distance themselves from this comparison, their sophomore effort, "Seu Minuto, Meu Segundo", expanded Gram's sound. The songs are less guitar-heavy and the keyboards made them a little more layered. The Beatles (in "Você Tem") and Radiohead/Coldplay ("Vivo de Novo") influences are still there, but there are more acoustic guitars ("Em Nome do Filho", the outro in "Parte de Mim") and even a New Order-ish dance-beat song (the title track). Marcello Pagotto's McCartnesque bass is more upfront in some songs ("Vale A Pena" and the title track), being the lead more than the counterpoint.
5) One of the names DJ Genki goes by occasionally. Refer to DJ Genki for further info.
Quase Ilusão
Gram Lyrics
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Quando acreditei que você me traria
Vida ou talvez calor
Que tê-la junto a mim
Faria o tempo passar logo
Percebi que não
Pra vê-la em minha mão cantei
E o prêmio foi notar
Que fui cego e iludido
Você partiu em meio à multidão
Fiquei parado sentindo a sensação
De alívio que me deu depois
These lyrics are telling the story of a man who believed that a woman he was seeing would bring him life and warmth, and even though he sang his heart out to win her over, he ultimately learns that he was blind and deluded. The song opens with him reflecting on how he nearly lost everything when he believed this woman would bring him what he was missing in life. He thought that being with her would make time pass quickly, but eventually realized that it wasn't the case after all.
Despite the realization that she wasn't what he thought she was, the man still holds on to hope. He sings to her, trying to win her over with his "best song" in the hope that she will stay with him. However, he comes to realize that he was foolish to ever believe that she would be his salvation. The final lines of the song reveal that the woman left him, but he felt a sense of relief once she was gone.
Overall, this song is a powerful reflection on the ways in which we can deceive ourselves when we are longing for something or someone. It shows how easy it is to be caught up in romantic illusions, and how hard it can be to let go of them once we realize the truth.
Line by Line Meaning
Quase pus tudo a perder
I almost lost everything
Quando acreditei que você me traria Vida ou talvez calor
When I believed that you would bring me life or warmth
Que tê-la junto a mim Faria o tempo passar logo
That having you with me would make time go by quickly
Percebi que não
I realized it wasn't true
Pra vê-la em minha mão cantei Minha melhor canção
I sang my best song to have you in my hands
E o prêmio foi notar Que fui cego e iludido
And the prize was realizing that I was blind and delusional
Você partiu em meio à multidão
You left amidst the crowd
Fiquei parado sentindo a sensação De alívio que me deu depois
I stood still feeling the relief it gave me afterwards
Contributed by Savannah S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Natan Costa
Gram - Quase ilusão
Quase pus tudo a perder
Quando acreditei que você me traria
Vida ou talvez calor
Que tê-la junto a mim
Faria o tempo passar logo
Percebi que não
Pra vê-la em minha mão cantei
Minha melhor canção
E o prêmio foi notar
Que fui cego e iludido
Você partiu em meio à multidão
Fiquei parado sentindo a sensação
De alívio que me deu depois
Giovanna Paranhos
Minha banda favorita! Uma pena ter acabado...
Vander Luiz
depois do cbjr eu amo eles,saudades infinitas das duas bandas!!!
Natan Costa
Gram - Quase ilusão
Quase pus tudo a perder
Quando acreditei que você me traria
Vida ou talvez calor
Que tê-la junto a mim
Faria o tempo passar logo
Percebi que não
Pra vê-la em minha mão cantei
Minha melhor canção
E o prêmio foi notar
Que fui cego e iludido
Você partiu em meio à multidão
Fiquei parado sentindo a sensação
De alívio que me deu depois
Rodrigo Santos
Uma das bandas das quais mais sinto falta no cenário BR. Tive o prazer de assistir ao vivo e me encantar, muito mais do que as gravações.
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E que me desculpem os membros novos, GRAM tem que ter o Sérgio. <3
Junior Marinho
Sérgio tá na ativa de novo com Banda Lá De Casa
Rodrigo Santos
@Cleiton Drake Sim, nem tenho cacife pra julgar. Apenas sinto muito enquanto mero fã de que outros caminhos tenham sido impostos à banda.
Cleiton Drake
Mas ao que parece Sergio não quer seguir a carreira. Fazer o que? O jeito é continuarem como dá
Vander Luiz
que sorte você teve irmão é um contemplado em ter visto pessoalmente!
Jose Ferreira
banda foda
João Victor
muito bom