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manuel mengis

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i was born in wallis, mountain region of switzerland. started playing tp when i was 12. later i started univerity for geology for two years and did the trainig to become a mountain guide. finally i decided to become a musican when i was 23. so i did music studies in luzern, at the same time i also started for the first time to play in bands.after that i worked as musican and mountain guide, starded to raise a family, trying to lead a live as musican, playing with different people and at the same time working for my own band gruppe 6. in between i was in visual art school in zuerich, so all in all not really a straight musican bio. After that i continued to play with different groups, mainly in the avant garde context. Currently i play a lot with “le pot”, working on a cd trilogy she-hera-zade.

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