Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth

About Me

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Rosli Mansor's initial encounter with the guitar was when he laid hands on his brother's acoustic guitar as a 10-year-old boy. Coupled with him listening to the likes of the Carpenters, the Beatles, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep, he embarked on his musical journey since.
Juggling studies, part-time work, mastering the guitar and learning music in his early years, Rosli managed to overcome the initial difficulties and found several opportunities playing in various gigs at popular watering holes. He has worked with other talented musicians such as Ramli Sarip, Kick!, Flower Child, Trisno Ishak, Tanya Chua, Evelyn Tan, BojaVibe etc.
Rock music aside, Rosli is also proficient in jazz and pop music due to his extensive playing experience in the local circuit. He played alongside Danny Koh's Big Band and performed with the Swing Out Sisters at Harry's on weekends.
Rosli is an accomplished music composer and arranger and wrote tracks for local short films by Wee Li Lin (Norman On The Air, Autograph Book, Lunchtime), theatre works and recently. for websites and commercials, the latest being written for Nickelodeon and Nick Junior channels under Turntable Music.
Outside the performing world, Rosli teaches music at the mother of all music schools in Singapore, Yamaha Music School, and also as a private tutor.
Despite the performances and teaching, within him burns the unwavering and deep passion to produce his own instrumental rock album. Counting the likes of Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson as influences, Rosli embarked on a 2-year journey of creating this album, Dragged, from scratch.
January 2007 marked the fruit of his labour. His album launch, held at Earshot Cafe (The Arts House) on 27 January 2007, was met with overwhelming responses.
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Music:

Member Since: 12/20/2006
Band Website: roslimansor.com
Band Members: Rosli Mansor

Influences: Jeff Beck, Shah Tahir, Allan Holdsworth, Farid Ali, Scott Henderson, Wayne Krantz, Mick Goodrick, Simone Massaron, Erkan Ogur, Cenk Erdogan, Neal Schon, Farid Ali, Joe Satriani, David Torn, Brett Garsed, TJ Helmerich, Michael Landau, Steve Lukather, Carl Verheyen, Al Dimeola, Bill Frisell, Robben Ford and Haji Letterman
Sounds Like:

Rosli Mansor featuring Addy Rasidi playing 'Pakoo Boomi' during the second Fretboard Frenzy: Rise of the Stringers on 3 May 08.

Rosli Mansor playing 'Ego or Truth (New Born) on his fretless guitar during Fretboard Frenzy: Rise of the Stringers on 1 Mar 08.

Valley Arts Custom Pro Guitar premiering in 'Rescuing Rukia' MTV!

Dragged is now on sale! You can obtain a copy of the CD from these places: (click on it to display the location map)

Stores / studios:
1. Earshot Cafe (Singapore Arts Museum and Esplanade)
2. Luther Musicworks (B1-22)
3. Yamaha Contempo Music School Counter
4. Velvet Joint Rehearsal Studio
5. Muzika Records (01-1031)
6. Gold Disc (01-26)
7. Four Tones Music
8. Ignite Production
9. The Music Lab (B1-11)
10. Roxy Records (02-15)

Online stores:
1. mrmisse
2. Audioreload
3. S.O.F.T.
4. CDBaby
5. iTunes
6. Buy.com
7. Music is Here
8. GroupieTunes
9. Tradebit
10. Napster NEW!

Alternatively, you can email [email protected] . Check out Rosli's website at www.roslimansor.com .

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Record Label: Snoots Music Group
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Fretless Frenzy

Shiny and smooth. Fingers going over the surface, moving effortlessly as if skating on ice. The strings are like the lines on a running track, guiding one through the run. An ice skater or a runner ma...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:45:00 PST

Thank you, Purple Friends

It started in the beginning of 2005, from recording to album launch on 27th Jan 2007, to performances and gigs. It's been a pretty exhausting journey, made just a little tougher by the nature of the m...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:58:00 PST

Dragged review by headspin

When I first heard that Rosli was working on his debut album, I was very excited and was highly anticipating the completion and release of his CD. I did not know what to expect as he appreciates many ...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

A short story of a great friend, the Guitar Virtuoso

His head lowered as he executed the last note of his song. Beads of sweat rolled down his face. DXO was filled with a thundered growl of applause. Screams and chants of his name grew louder and even l...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

ME WITH GIBSON, VALLEY ARTS AND STEINBERGER

I am happy to say that I have once again met my old flame, the Valley Arts Custom Pro guitar. We go a long way back from 1990-95 and all thanks to Gibson who has been so willing to help, I now h...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:20:00 PST

Dragged review by clasSY

One word: awesome. It was breathtaking to see and hear Rosli play live during his album launch. The tracks he played were excellent. So much so that I wanted to rush home to listen to the rest of the...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

Review of Dragged by q4u2die4

::Reviewed by q4u2die4:: The good thing about this album is that, overall it is very refreshing. It doesn't sound like what are currently available out there (i.e. tunes from Steve Vai, Joe S...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:35:00 PST

BLOGGING ROSLI MANSOR'S ALBUM REVIEWS

For all of Rosli Mansor's friends and supporters, others as well, this blog will be used as a showcase of reviews on Rosli's debut album, Dragged. To contribute your comments / feedback / reviews on ...
Posted by Rosli Mansor - Ego or Truth on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:40:00 PST