Alter Ego (Peruvian Band) - The Album

The Album

By January 1997, the band got into the studio to record its debut album called Utopia, produced and engineered by Juan Carlos Oganes and was released in late August of the same year. It contained many songs recorded in early years together with some recent ones. As they explained, it was to be taken as a "history album" as it showed the progress of the band from its dawn up to that point in their career. The album took some time to start gaining momentum. The band played pubs and concerts and toured frequently to support the album with many appearances on TV and guest interviews. They also released some music videoclips in 1999 which from the start began to call attention as it happened with their first single "What's The Fire" that reached No. 2 on TV music charts competing with other known bands of those years. In May of that year they released their second single called "Sirenia" which reached No. 1 and stayed on that position for two weeks on TV Music charts. Concerts came plenty together with more TV appearances. Later that year they released their third single called "Escúchame" which reached No. 3 on TV charts.

Despite their many TV appearances and concerts they never had radio support as the music was considered non-commercial (although some critics recognized the catchy single Sirenia as radio-friendly). Only one radio station aired a song which was never released as a single called "Cazador Furtivo" in February 1998, but it wasn't enough for support.

By the end of 1999 they went back to Emporium Digital Studios to begin recording what was to be their second album called Cinema.

In early 2000, Oganes made contact with a Chilean entrepreneur to take the band to Chile to support the album. They also played one of the biggest festivals in Ica to thousands of attendees and fans.

Disagreements in band members together with personal problems forced Oganes to split the band and put it on stand-by. Regardless of member intents to get together, Oganes kept out of the picture and the band never really reunited again as he holds the copyrights for the name and songs. He never declared the band officially terminated and the question of a new comeback was held in suspense for some time until recently when he declared the intention to form a new line-up for Alter Ego.