MANA
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Sound: Electronic / Dark R&B / Grime / Beats
For Fans Of: Lee Gamble / Proc Fiskal / Kode9
Previous Work: The North Face / Full Showreel
Spotify: Check It
Bio:Mana is Daniele Mana latest project which recently found its home in the legendary London based Hyperdub,
His works are featured by unpredictable evolutions and a unique taste for melodies. He writes and produces for theatre, film and advertising alongside his artistic projects as Vaghe Stelle, One
Circle, an ensemble formed by Mana, Lorenzo Senni and Francesco Fantini, and his latest project Mana who recently debuted with a album on the iconic Hyperdub.
After his 2017’s debut EP for Hyperdub, ‘Creature’, which was a taut, evocative suite of beatless, almost neo-classical electronics, on this
new album we find his music has caught an alien virus and started hallucinating.
‘Seven Steps Behind’ is an electronic album that doesn’t always sound electronic; a great deal of the record has been created to sound lik prepared pianos, harpsichords, cellos and flutes. At other times, sampled acoustic instruments and specially recorded sessions have been processed through software and careful editing. It’s this sophisticated layering of contrasting versions of the same sources that help give this record its uncanny balance. The album also play with your sense of time in its mostly drum-free hall of mirrors, pulling from minimalism, chamber music, dark jazz, and synthesiser experiments.