Jazz Articles about Michy Mano

About Michy Mano

Album Review

Michy Mano: The Cool Side of the Pillow

Read "The Cool Side of the Pillow" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
September 12, 2006

World music reminds us that every corner of the globe has its own particular sound. Instruments differ, languages differ, elements such as harmony and rhythm differ, but it's all music. The power of our universal language cannot be understated.

Michy Mano sings about sociology and politics, personality and emotion, good fortune and bad. He delivers an upbeat vocal performance that includes English and well as French lyrics. Mano's method combines traditional Gypsy music with contemporary rap antics.

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Album Review

Michy Mano: The Cool Side of the Pillow

Read "The Cool Side of the Pillow" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 6, 2006

The Cool Side of the Pillow brings together singer and sentir player Michy Mano and Oslo DJ Bugge Wesseltoft to create a work of musical fusion that is accomplished, hip, witty, but ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Those parts--Moroccan popular styles and Norwegian electronica--do not mix as readily as you might suppose.

Start with electronica. Worldly approaches like Wesseltoft's derive texture, variety, even irony from sampling previously recorded performances. The effect is to smooth out differences between, ...