Assemble presents Manu Delago Handmade
Assemble at The Barrel House Ballroom, Totnes
Manu Delago Handmade
Support - Chartwell Dutiro
Friday 27 Sep 2013
Doors 8pm. Music from 8.30pm.
Tickets £8 advance from wegottickets.com. £10 on the door.
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Manu Delago Handmade
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Manu Delago has just returned from touring around the world as drummer and Hang player with Björk. The “masterful and sensitive musician“ (The Telegraph) has also performed and recorded as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and collaborated with various artists such as Anoushka Shankar, Shpongle, Bugge Wesseltoft or The Cinematic Orchestra.
His solo career began in 2007 when he uploaded a video onto Youtube in which he plays the Hang, a UFO-like hand-played sound sculpture. Now that video is the most popular Hang video on the internet and has been viewed more than 4 million times. Soon after, the “virtuoso on the Hang“ (The Times) formed his own band which has since played concerts on five continents.
For the new album the band, Manu Delago Handmade, has teamed up with producer Matt Robertson (Björk, The Prodigy). The new material explores a vast array of sounds, ranging from sweet and delicate vocal lines with colourful Hang accompaniment, all the way through to chunky, electronic beats. The sound of the band is mature and well balanced, they have a real understanding of orchestration, moulding and continually changing the texture to create a different sound world with each piece.
The live show of Manu Delago Handmade is a definite must-see. The performance is delicate and sophisticated, moving with ease between heavily rhythmic and free-fowing spherical sections.
Line up:
Isa Kurz – vocals, piano & violin
Philipp Moll – bass, synth & vocals
Manu Delago – hang & drums
”amazing percussionist and Hang player” - Björk
“There was party time: drummer Manu Delago's orgiastic blast of percussion” - David Fricke, Rolling Stone
“What a non-stop affair of creativity, surprise, beauty, harmony, wit, art, invention, energy, entertainment” – Amanda Yensa Manor, Author & Journalist
Chartwell Dutiro
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Chartwell grew up in Zimbabwe playing mbira for all night ritual ceremonies and public performances, and is now regarded as a World-Class soloist and ensemble member. Chartwell toured the world and recorded multiple albums with the legendary Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited, before forming his own multi-national acoustic ensemble Spirit Talk Mbira, a high-energy dance band, which tours regularly.
Chartwell is a Womad Foundation recommended artist, and often collaborates and performs with the Serona String Quartet. In January 2012, he founded Mhararano, the UK’s first ever Mbira Academy at The Space: Dartington Arts Trust. Chartwell is recently performed mbira in the RSC’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar that transferred to the USA following its UK tour.
