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MANU ENGLISH BIO Manu (aka Emmanuelle Monet) was the singer of the french cult rock band Dolly, between 1995 and 2005 (about 400 000 albums sold). The band stopped in 2005 with the death of its bass player Micka in 2005. In 2008, she released her first solo-album "Rendez-vous" on her own record company Tekini Records, followed by a live CDVD in 2010 and a second intimist album "La dernière étoile" in 2013. In 2014, Manu released "Tenki Ame - The Japanese EP", an 8-tracks mini-album only in japanese language. At the end of 2015, Manu is back with a new album, "La vérité". A pure power pop album with grunge and heavy rock influences (Pixies, Undertones, Sonic Youth). She is now playing in France with a new powerful band. Manu also collaborated in her carreer with different french or international artists like Apocalyptica, Kelly Jones (Stereophonics), Mass Hysteria or the japanese 'Silent Hill" composer Akira Yamaoka. Manu, souvenez-vous, c’est la voix douce de DOLLY... 4 albums et quelques 350 000 exemplaires écoulés, un disque d’or pour le premier album éponyme et le titre "Je n’veux pas rester sage". Manu fait depuis route seule, avec un premier album « Rendez-vous » en 2008, un live à l’Élysée Montmartre l’année suivante et « La dernière étoile » en 2013. Des albums apaisés par le temps et l’expérience, où la blonde égérie devenue rousse semble avoir retrouvé peu à peu ce pour quoi elle a toujours fait de la musique, la recherche du plaisir à l’état pur, dans l’écriture et les compositions. De redoutables collections de chansons où l’énergie du rock restait malgré tout toujours latente et le timbre de voix d’Emmanuelle un indéniable signe distinctif. Un an après une parenthèse des plus inattendues avec un EP « Tenki Ame » entièrement chanté en japonais, voici le grand retour de Manu. Un retour aux sources. Au triple galop ! Car à l’évidence, avec ce quatrième disque en solo, réalisé, joué et produit par Manu pour son propre label Tekini Records, elle renoue avec ses premières influences (Pixies, News Order, Grandaddy, Sonic Youth,…) et un son original, saturé et électrique. "Chaque titre ici est un véritable hymne power pop en puissance" Crinière auburn au vent, Manu retrouve ici pour notre plus grand bonheur la puissance de ses années Dolly, celle du rock brut, dépouillé et spontané. Cet album va donc combler les fans impatients de Manu mais aussi, et ils sont nombreux, les nostalgiques du quator nantais.
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'Phases' The New Album Of Manu Codjia, Giuseppe Millaci & Lieven Venken on Hypnote Records
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Nina Feri
Giuseppe Millaci, an industrious bassist and the founder of Hypnote Records, who has become a driving force in the belgian jazz scene, gets to showcase his proficiency as both a delicately pertinent accompanist and a singing soloist. On the drums, colourfully expressive and unrelenting, Lieven Venken buoyantly spurs on electrifying riffs and fiery solos from the very versatile but instantly recognisable Manu Codjia, now a household name of European jazz. Three exceptional musicians, from different backgrounds meeting at the crossroads ...
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Drummer, Composer, Bandleader Manu Katché Releases "Live In Concert", His Debut For ACT Music
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ACTmusic
“Anyone who heard the quartet play last year will want this chronicle of a rapturously received night’s work.” —John Fordham, The Guardian (review of Live in Concert) “Manu Katché is a drummer of watchful effervescence, attuned to the tiniest particulars of rhythm and timbre but intent on a feeling of unthinking ease” —Nate Chinen, The New York Times “Live, Manu Katché group must be positively nuclear.” —John Kelman, AllAboutJazz.com Manu Katché, one of the world’s most renowned drummers & bandleaders, ...
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Manu Katche - Neighbourhood (2006)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski Ever stumble into one of those snotty Internet arguments tugging back & forth about the capabilities of musicians? Specifically, the old “Is it possible for player X (an expert in genre A) to cross over to the land of genre B?" “Well, of course he can." “He's a master!" “No he can't." “This music has nothing to do with that music." “You're an idiot." “Besides, that music is just plain lame." “Did I mention that you're an ...
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Manu Dibango "Africadelic"
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Sound Insights by Doug Payne
It's hard to believe there is a musician anywhere on this earth that could mix great jazz chops with a soulful outlook and a worldly attitude and still make it so fun and funky that it doesn't matter what allegiance you address. This stuff rocks. And, amazingly, it's just as timely now as it was back then. The following tunes come from Manu Dibango's Africadelic album, the tremendous 1973 French-only follow-up of sorts to the worldwide smash that was “Soul ...
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Enter the ECM "Manu Katche - Third Round" Giveaway
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ECM “Manu Katche—Third Round“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 29th.Click here to enter the contest (Following Manu Katche at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at ECM Records About Third Round Following on from Neighbourhood and Playground, the latest installment of the music of Manu Katche on ECM. Recorded in the South of France in ...
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Manu Katche - Third Round (2010)
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Something Else!
By PicoWorld class drummer Manu Katché continues to pursue a second musical career as a bandleader with his third ECM release (and fourth overall) on Third Round. His second ECM Playground was warmly greeted here when it first appeared three years ago, and his label debut was quite good, too, so we were eager to see if Katché could make it three for three. Third Round isn't an abrupt departure from the spacious, subtle European jazz ...
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Tuesday Morning Listen: Manu Katche, Third Round
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
In Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Times critic Ben Ratliff writes, “the sound of so many jazz gigs I've heard in the past fifteen years...is usually the sound of albums like Coltrane's Sound or Coltrane Plays the Blues, the quartet just before or in the first stages of a modal-jazz style, just tightening, still before A Love Supreme and that later music that is so personal that to borrow from it would be obvious." I hadn't heard either album ...
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Drummer Manu Katche Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
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All About Jazz
Manu Katche is one of the most original drummers anywhere, defying categorization and straddling musical genres with ease and flair. A French national of Ivorian background, he has turned his hand to pop, rock, fusion and jazz, and his exposure to all these elements, plus his classical training, is indelibly stamped in a playing style all his own.
For over 20 years, Katche has toured and recorded with such iconic figures as Sting and Peter Gabriel, bringing his highly distinctive ...
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Abdullah Ibrahim, Manu Dibango & Others Highlight Brecon Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
International jazz stars from around the world will be appearing at the 2009 Brecon Jazz Festival in Wales on Friday 7th through Sunday 9th August.
Held in locations across the town of Brecon, the festival will feature South African piano legend Adbullah Ibrahim, Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango and the Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem. UK Jazz's biggest star, Courtney Pine, will also return to perform his new Sidney Bechet-inspired album, Tradition in Transition.
There will be over 50 talks and ...
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