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MAN
-- music lives in a no man's land between the genres, somewhere between
rock, electronica, jazz and modern composition. As with all their
recordings and live performances, everything here is improvised. Often
being labelled jazz because of the improvising aspect of the music, MAN
-- is just as likely to attract followers of bands such as Tortoise,
Keith Jarrett, Robert Wyatt, Goodspeed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Ros,
Pierre Bastien, (late) Talk Talk or Messian.
«Every
thing here is matter of breath, appearances, disappearing, privacy
...dense cloud of shades drinking light. » MAN
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Bio MAN --
MAN -- is solo's project by Rasim Biyikli
MAN -- produces a rare and elegant form of electro acoustic
music
that touches base with unchartered territories where anything is
possible and that baffles all definition : it is unusual and smart,
luxurious and special. MAN -- shapes climatic variations, invites jazz,
repetitive music, pop music. For the band, it is enough to deem its
music to be stamped with freedom.
3 albums, a great number of tours through Europe, first productions,
contributions with designer Pierrick Sorin's, directors
(Sébastien Betbeder, Bruno Podalydes, Marc Ponette, Pivanh,
Martin Moimem and Gilles Peltier) for fictional short or long films and
cartoon soundtracks, painters (Cyril Marie Borgner), choreographers
(Cie Ecart Danse), Ys theatre, other musicians or bands (Clogs, Sylvain
Chauveau, Lena, Orange Blossom, Chevreuil, Le Coq, Floating Roots
Orchestra…), multimedia performances and cinema scores
punctuated the trio's life since the beginning. Such a
perpetual
process of creation gives MAN -- the opportunity to use their skill in
the most diverse fields of expression and establishes their concern for
realm of images.
MAN -- appeared with Tortoise, A Silver Mount Zion, Matmos, David
Grubbs, Tarwater, Perry Blake, Clogs, Dominique A, Red, Laurent
Garnier, Tindersticks, Noël Akchoté, Brigitte
Fontaine,
Plaid, Kronos Quartet, Merz, Emilie Simon, Goldmund, The Boats, Piano
Magic, Daniel Darc, The Earlies etc......
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MAN -- reviews
& airplays
::. BELGIUM +
NETHERLANDS .::
MATAMORE
"Pour se détendre, c'est un remède
idéal.
Pour s'endormir, c'est un calvaire. Dense et
intéressante, belle et séduisante, la musique de
Man ne
laissera pas s'assoupir les esprits fatigués."
NAMELESS "Les plages de cet opus s'ouvrent comme une
fleur au
printemps et l'inspiration élégante de M.A.N
semble
constamment intarissable. Et lorsque la voix apparaît, on se
demande si personne ne vient de rentrer dans la pièce, si
aucune
bouche imaginaire ne nous susurre des poèmes longs de notes.
Ces
mêmes notes que touche le piano, par instant, et qui
libèrent instantanément une atmosphère
nébuleuse où il fait bon se lover. Et c'est une
atmosphère éthérée qui
vaporise mes
pensées."
DE SUBJECTIVISTEN
"Er zijn wel elementen te herkennen van Philip Glass, Pierre Bastien,
Sylvain Chauveau, Matmos, Clogs, Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, Keith
Jarrett en Tape, maar meer dan flarden zijn het niet bij dit
kameleonachtige duo. Man levert een intrigerende, prachtige soundtrack
af voor alles wat duister en
droefgeestig is."
::.
FRANCE
.::
INROCKUPTIBLES
"an ageless album that carries the traces of time going by with
grace… the time taken that you know is needed so that the
music,
liberated of the weight of habit and the constraints of fashion, can
allow itself to sound as on the first day, all new, and happy in its
loneliness."
VIBRATIONS
"MAN deepens a very personal approach with a strong capacity of
attraction. Its calming beauty surprises as much as it enchants."
TELERAMA
"Only one scenic qualification: a rare acoustic phenomenon!"
LE
MONDE
"A restrained, but generous. To such an extent that one could imagine a
new relationship to the music: a purified approach, as clear as
mountain water, clearly approaching limpidity."
::. GERMANY + AUSTRIA .::
DE:BUG
"MAN bleiben also erfreulich
seltsam. Manchmal wirken MAN wie eine neue Version diverser belgischer
Art Rock-Acts der Achtziger. Ein beeindruckendes halb-akustisches
Monsterchen." 5/6
INTRO "Mit lockeren, improvisiert erscheinenden
Miniaturen,
instrumentiert mit Rhodes, Piano, Bass, Gitarren sowie diversen
elektronischen Sounds und Fieldrecordings, schwankt das Album zwischen
ambitionierter Ernsthaftigkeit und augenzwinkernder Verspieltheit."
GROOVE
"Einer idiosynkratischen Vorstellung von filmischer,
atmosphärischer, improvisierter Musik gehen Man auf dem Album
"Helping Hand" (Sub Rosa/Alive) nach. Mit allerlei Instrumenten stellt
das M.AN eine Umgebung aus Sorgfalt und Ungewissheit, der Ruhe
romantischer Piano-Motive und knorrigen, ganz
selbstverständlich
in den Fluss geratenden Irritationen her."
TRUST "Eine Menge guter Musik da draussen, und wer
ein wenig an den Rändern sucht, kann selten Schätze
heben. Wie Diesen !"
HAYFEVER "Sub Rosa schenkt uns einen Score zu einem
nicht
vorhandenen Film. Mit konventionellen Instrumenten und leichten
elektronischen Nuancen lassen zwei Franzosen Regentropfen vor dem
inneren Auge fallen. Hier wird Atmosphäre wieder
groß
geschrieben."
MONOCHROM
"MAN despite of an overall decline to aim at any special place,
nevertheless aim high and wide. And good music needs good arc.
That's more important than anything else, most of the times.
Reach out, touch, feel."
SKUG "Die meisten Musiker wären
höchstwahrscheinlich
schon an der Diskrepanz der beiden essentiellen Umgebungsvariablen
»Wollen« und »Können«
gescheitert. Rasim
Biyikli , die gemeinsam das M.AN. Große Gesten und
ein
verschmitztes Augenzwinkern. Und wunderschöne Musik."
::. ITALY .::
KATHODIK
"Noi ci rendiamo conto di
essere inermi e di non poter far altro che continuare ad ascoltare e
aspettare lo sviluppo della storia. Che si fa interessante, si, e
intensa, avventurosa, finisce con…Compratelo e lo saprete."
UNMUTE "Un magnifico disco per crogiolarsi al sole
della malinconia."
IL MANIFESTO "Interessante album, questo terzo
del
francese Man. Un album, si potrebbe dire, onirico, ma non
perché
noioso, tutt'altro; se ci si lascia trasportare si può
viaggiare
in un mondo parallelo, visionario. Brani per niente semplici e banali,
in cui l'anima elettronica si fonde con l'acustica, a tratti
magistralmente, come nella traccia che dà il titolo
all'intero
lavoro, con strumenti giocattolo che fanno da contraltare all'atmosfera
sintetizzata."
::. SPAIN .::
RNE
"Después de dos albumes
editados en Les Disques Du Soleil, Man reinventan su historia
trabajando ahora con el sello Sub Rosa en su tercer álbum,
el
disco titulado Helping Hand, en el que muestran su lado más
sombrio y complejo, que dan una dimensión suplementaria."
::. SWITZERLAND .::
NAMSKEIO
"Somewhere between
contemporary music, post-rock and ambient. Imagine a meeting between
YANN TIERSEN, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR and MORTON FELDMAN."
LE TEMPS «Cauchemard à la David
Lynch ou chagrin
consommé, rien n'est jamais simplement
désespéré chez MAN. Parcourue de
programmations
insolites, traversée de courant contraires, cette musique
réserve des trésors à qui ose
s'y abandonner
sans idée préconçue. MAN a
conservé cette
manière insidieuse de tendre jusqu'à la
rupture de
ses amarres émotionnelles.»
MUSIQUE CHRONIQUES - DISQUE DU MOIS "En six ans, Man
a acquis ce
talent rare de concevoir un patchwork sonore à partir de
petits
bouts de rien, qui se révèle être au
final
évocateur en diable et d'une totale harmonie."
::. UK .::
THE WIRE
"Their vast palette
utilises piano, guitar, bass, accordion, melodica and electronics. The
slow-spooling, filmic feel of their instant compositions are
underscored by the invisible choreography of Ennio Morricone or Nino
Rota."
::. USA + CANADA .::
POPMATTERS
"Listening to Helping
Hand is like your mind on the edge of sleep, when you're not
sure
if the elements of your dreams have carried over into the waking world,
or if it's the other way around. This is the somnambulant
journey
you take with Man. It is beautiful, shadowy, and illusory. It will
leave you hazy-headed and wishing to return. And this is okay; this is
good. Allow your mind to follow the water's downhill path.
Let
yourself go. Return."
BRAINWASHED "Man have really impressed me which is a
shame
because now I'm going to have to spend money on picking up
their
other releases. I'm hoping that they live up to my
expectations
and that Helping Hand isn't a fluke work of brilliance."
CYCLIC DEFROST
"French
multi-instrumentalists Rasim Biyikli make these twittering sonic
flares, industrial machine loops, and wistful piano melodies hang in a
delicate balance with one another such that a certain light sweep and
guileless spontaneity is upheld."
ALL
MUSIC GUIDE
"The music¹s melodic qualities express a naivete close to
Pascal
Comelade, but Man's ties with post-rock make it sound more
like
Godspeed or Landing on a sunny day."
FOXY DIGITALIS "MAN master their instruments and
have a decent feeling for sound."
Ron
Shepper“Helping
Hand” captures the contrasting tendencies within Man's sound,
with someone bemusedly rolling furniture across the stage while a
chamber ensemble rehearses a pretty glockenspiel and piano piece. Never
rushing the material, Rasim Biyikli leave ample space between the notes
on the acoustic jazz-influenced; the slowly curdling rhythms even sound
like they're putting the two to sleep at times.
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RADIO PLAYLISTS .::
AUSRALIA
: Radio 2Ser, TRIPLE RRR, Eastside
Radio...
BELGIUM : FM
Brussels, Radio Centraal, Electrons Libres...
CANADA : CFRC
FM, CHUO FM, LU Radio, CFUV, CO-OP Tadio, CHLY
FRANCE : Radio
France, France Inter, FIP, France Culture, Radios Ferarock...
GERMANY : Radio
Dreyeckland, Radio Z
Nürnberg, Radio Lotte Weimar, Radio Blau Leipzig,
Deutschlandfunk,
Radar Radio Darmstadt, 603qm, Bayerischer Rundfunk
NETHERLANDS : VPRO,
Radio 4 FM 89.1 FM
SPAIN : RNE
USA : WPKN,
WFMU, WNYU, WXDU, WEFT, KBOO,
Chicago Public Radio, WWUH, WRCT, 808 Noise, Death Valley Radio, Soma
FM, KVRX, M50 Chicago…
MAN -- Discography
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