Reason (Shaman album)

Reason
Studio album by Shaaman
Released	August 23, 2005
Recorded	Creative Studios, Nossoestudio and Fasm Auditorium, São Paulo, Sonhos e Sons, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Gate Studio, Wolfsburg, Germany
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal
Length	49:20
Label	Deckdisk (Brazil) AFM (Europe and US) Victor (Japan)
Producer	Sascha Paeth, Philip Colodetti, Shaaman
Shaaman chronology
RituAlive (2003) Reason (2005) Immortal (2007)

Reason is the second studio album by the Brazilian heavy metal band Shaaman, first released in 2005. "Innocence" was released as the band's first single.^[1]

Track listing

All songs by Shaman, all lyrics by Andre Matos, except "More" (written by Andrew Eldritch and composed by Eldritch, Jim Steinman)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Turn Away"	4:21
2.	"Reason"	4:40
3.	"More" (The Sisters of Mercy cover)	4:02
4.	"Innocence"	4:37
5.	"Scarred Forever"	5:20
6.	"In the Night"	5:54
7.	"Rough Stone"	5:56
8.	"Iron Soul"	5:24
9.	"Trail of Tears"	3:47
10.	"Born to Be"	6:00

Personnel

Band members

• Andre Matos - vocals, piano, keyboards
• Hugo Mariutti - guitars
• Luís Mariutti - bass
• Ricardo Confessori - drums

Additional musicians

• Miro - keyboard arrangements and programming, sound effects
• Junior Rossetti - keyboards, sound effects
• Fabio Ribeiro - organ
• Marcus Viana - violin, cello, Indian dioruba, rabbab
• Helder Araujo - sitar, tablas
• Amanda Somerville - backing vocals, narration, vocal coaching
• The São Paulo State Symphony Ensamble:
  • Svetlana Terechkova, Andrea Campos Misiuk, Soraya Landim, Matthew Thomas Thorpe, Camila Tamae Yasuca, Cesar Augusto Miranda - violins
  • Svetlana Bogatyreva, Tania Campos Kier - violas
  • Douglas Kier, Wilson Sampaio - cellos

Production

• Sascha Paeth - producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Philip Colodetti - co-producer, engineer, mastering
• Glenn Zolotar, Ricardo Nagata, Luizinho Mazzei, Eduardo Avellar, Evandro Lopez - engineers

References

1. "Shaman - Reason". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2012-10-13.