There's a sound that lives in your head for decades. You hear it in other people's records, chase it through bands you form and disband, get close sometimes but never quite reach it. Life happens, you get on with other things, and that sound stays there, waiting.

A Luz Vermelha is what happens when you finally stop putting it off.

Luiz Alberto Moura has carried noise in his body for over thirty years. Since he bought his first Fugazi record. He's been through bands, projects, cities, countries. Accumulated enough mileage to know the difference between the sound you make for other people and the sound you make because you can't hold it in any longer. This is the second kind.

The debut record was made at home, alone, without an audience or witnesses. Guitar, bass, drums, vocals — all filtered through a single mind and a single pair of hands. The isolation here isn't loneliness, it's clarity. No negotiation, no compromise. Just the sound as it was always imagined.

The result is heavy, abrasive, alive. It speaks to the records that shaped a certain idea of rock across the 1990s like Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, Afghan Whigs, Sonic Youth, Unwound, but doesn't try to revive anything. It's too present to be nostalgia.

At 49, some things get simpler. You simply don't ask permission to do what you need to do.