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    <description><![CDATA[Sheer guitar player, doubtful instrument modder, odd cacophony flamer, low tuning lover, right-handed visual artist. Likes conceptual art, likes to draw whales, likes to chew gum.

"Manuel Gião is a portuguese guitar player and gear modifier who has released in 2007 his first full-length on Searching Records. His exploratory work is led by a strong sense of tension, accumulation, and discharge, which sums up easily distinct aesthetic manifestations. As an example of these, we can point out the claustrophobia associated with the origin of the most extreme industrial music of the 80's, Tony Conrad's bright and revealing drone, the free-form exploration found in the work of Fred Frith or Henry Kaiser, the most abstract electronic reviewed through a past of rock influences, with some approaches to Black Dice's most recent stage."

"Guitarrista e modificador de instrumentos da margem sul, que prepara o seu registo de estreia, a sair pela Searching Records no ano que decorre. O trabalho explorador de Manuel Gião é guiado por um apurado sentido de tensão, de acumulação e descarga, que sintetiza com aparente facilidade manifestações estéticas à partida tidas como díspares, como sejam a claustrofobia associada à génese da mais extrema musica industrial da década de oitenta, o drone quase solar e revelador de Tony Conrad, a exploração free-form de um Fred Frith ou um Henry Kaiser, e a electrónica mais abstracta revista à luz de um passado de influências declaradamente mais rock, com aproximações pontuais à fase mais recente dos nova-iorquinos Black Dice." 

by Rui Dâmaso, for Out.Fest 2007 press release.

<a href="http://www.bodyspace.net/entrevistas.php?ent_id=190"> BODYSPACE webzine's interview (June '07)</a>
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