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manuel mota

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About Me

guitarist born in Lisbon, with public activity since 1989. From that to 1997 he studies and experiments with prepared guitar, mainly acoustic. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a personal language for fingerstyle electric guitar and started working in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia. Also, a lot of acoustic guitar has been played at home in the last years. Collaborated closely with Sei Miguel from 1997 to 2005. Founds the record label Headlights in 1998.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/14/2006
Sounds Like: about "OUTUBRO": Double disc set that features one solo acoustic disc and one solo electric disc from this great Portugese improvising guitarist that Derek Bailey named as one of the few interesting musicians currently orbiting the planet of free sound. And while it's true that Bailey must've heard a little of himself in aspects of Mota's angular, percussive style and his fondness for dead-stop harmonics there's much more to his playing than mere 'improv' form. Indeed, the overall late-night quietly thought-out atmosphere reminds me most of Keiji Haino's Change The Shape/Remove The Colour series of vaguely jazz-inflected home recordings along with aspects of Masayuki Takayanagi's pointillist work circa Lonely Woman and even some of the lonesome string grunt of Guitar Roberts. This is free, hermetically profound six-string alchemy rendered with a delicate, calligraphic ear for awkward personal detail. VOLCANIC TONGUE
Record Label: www.geocities.com/headlightsrecordings
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

"outubro" review

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2007/03mar _text.html#5  ...
Posted by manuel mota on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:58:00 PST

NEW CD: OUTUBRO- solo guitar playing

"OUTUBRO- solo guitar playing" is my new record on Headlights. A double CD set. One has electric guitar playing, the other has acoustic guitar playing. The recordings were made at home. DonĀ“t expect h...
Posted by manuel mota on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:43:00 PST