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ManB - Date

People speak blithely of "living in the moment". Self-help books and dayplan calendars speak of the "moment" as if it were an abstract idea and a mere policy for living.

In music, "living in the moment" can have a very literal, immediate meaning. ManB's "Date" arises from these literal moments. Date is the plural Italian word for a sequence of Month/day/year events. In ManB's music, music is literally created "in the moment". ManB performs his electronica compositions "live", without the use of overdub or delayed indulgence. "Date" instead uses a compositional device of synthesizers and faders played without one pre-ordained sequencer scheme, but instead an enlightened expression of artistic integrity.

The unpremeditated moment--the early dawn within, when the birdsong arises, the jazz-club-haze exuberance of a sound that feels so right. When the making of music moves byond the rules of instrumental pre-destination into the oneiric architecture of the city of dreams.

The "Record" button can be a kind of pinning of a butterfly--a capture of a moment, robbing it of its fundamental life. In ManB's "Date", it is instead an emergence of emotion from the cocoon of thought. ManB fills the blank pages of a moleskine with detailed maps of unknown places and sensations out of space and time. The moth-flutter flight into a void held together solely by the changeable rules of sound frequencies.

We advise you to set your dayplanner to non-existent dates, and revel in ManB's moment.

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Cover Design:
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Release Code:
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