Felipe Andreoli has been Angra's bassist since 2001, and his arrival coincides with the moment the band had to rebuild from scratch. Born in São Paulo in 1980, he came in very young, right after the simultaneous departure of Andre Matos, Luis Mariutti and Ricardo Confessori, to record Rebirth (2001) — the album that proved Angra still existed without its most visible founders. His bass playing comes from fusion, not metal. Andreoli plays with his fingers, uses chords, harmonics and slap with ease, and treats the bass line as an independent voice rather than a reinforcement of the guitar — an approach that converses directly with the Brazilian instrumental tradition and became part of the band's sound in the post-2001 phase. On tracks like "Rebirth" and "The Course of Nature" the instrument comes to the foreground without sounding like showing off. Between 2007 and 2012 he was also a member of Almah, Edu Falaschi's project, and he maintains constant activity as a teacher: a columnist for specialist magazines, an instructor and the author of teaching material for bass, he is one of the instrument's reference points in Brazil. With more than two decades in Angra, he is today the band's second longest-serving member, behind only Rafael Bittencourt.
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