by Sean Westergaard
After his short-lived Mourning Widows project, Nuno Bettencourt formed the recording entity Population 1. Playing all the instruments himself (as he had done on the Schizophonic album), Population 1 was released in 2002 on Universal Japan. Wanting to support the album with a tour, he created Population 1, the band, with Steve Ferlazzo on keyboards, Joe Pessia on bass, and Kevi…