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Taiga Blues began as a side project for guitarist Carsten Mandt to explore musical interests in post rock, electronica and jazz. Over time the side project grew, leading to releases on a number of netlabels such as Legoego. In the second half of 2006, Carsten was eventually joined by guitarist/trumpet player Michael Gallagher and bassist Tim Craig and together they released their debut album Intricacies early in 2008 on the My Formica Table netlabel, showcasing the band's knack for seamlessly blending electronic and live instrumentation, composed and improvised elements, resulting in deceptively simple yet multi-layered, evocative music.

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Member Since: 05/04/2006
Band Website: http://www.taiga-blues.co.uk/
Band Members: Carsten Mandt - guitar, programming; Michael Gallagher - guitar, trumpet; Tim Craig - bass
Influences: in alphabetical order: Air, Battles, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, Kenny Burrell, Fantomas, Fly Pan Am, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Herbie Hancock, Helmet, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Kruder& Dorfmeister, Lamb, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Melvins, Pan American, Portishead, Soundgarden/Chris Cornell, Sting/The Police, To Rococo Rot, Tortoise, and many, many more
Sounds Like: We would hope it sounds something like this: relaxed, organic, tuneful, interesting, inspiring, more-ish
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New release "Ausklang" out now!

A new Taiga Blues EP called "Ausklang" is out now! It's been released on the Wise Owl Records netlabel. You can download the 6 song EP here.
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:05:00 GMT

New album "Intricacies" out now

It's been a long time in the making but we're pleased to now announce the release of our new album "Intricacies".It's available for free download courtesy of the My Formica Table netlabel at http://ww...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:12:00 GMT

New Track on FSOR 007

The new FSOR 007 compilation, featuring the new taiga blues track "What Is We" is now out. You can download it here: http://www.archive.org/details/future_state_of_rhythm_-_fsor _007_vaIf you want to k...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:21:00 GMT

Early Bird

We've been very busy writing and recording new material over the last few months and here's at long last a taster... The song's called "Early Bird" and it shows quite nicely what Taiga Blues sounds li...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:10:00 GMT

Happy New Year

2007 is getting close now... First of all, a big thank you to everyone for their support over this year and all the best for you for 2007. And fingers crossed there'll be some taiga blues live shows f...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:58:00 GMT

taiga blues on FSOR compilation

A new taiga blues track, "John Carpenter", has just been released as part of the new Future State of Rhythm netlabel compilation. FSOR is a sub-label of Postunder Records and have just put out their v...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:17:00 GMT

Sandmaennchen

Nope, not my favourite German kids TV cartoon when I was a 5 year old, I am referring to the fabulous taiga blues cover of Enter Sandman, recorded exclusively for the BBC 1 Live Lounge competition her...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:19:00 GMT

Sorted

Well, it looks like after the hacker attack on Legoego things are back to normal... 
Posted by on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:00 GMT

Done

The wait is over. The guys at Legoego have now taken all the last hurdles in their efforts to completely revamp their site. As the first release on Legoego 2.0, the new taiga blues EP is now online fo...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:07:00 GMT

Delay

Due to Legoego, the netlabel that are releasing the new taiga blues material, revamping their entire operations the release of "Im kleinen Kreis" (yep, that's what the EP is called) has been postponed...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:49:00 GMT