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Artist:	MANUAL
Title:	Until Tomorrow
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 019CD

2001 release. After an amazing release on the Hobby Industries label, Manual brings us with his debut on Morr
       Music even further melodies and reasons for picking up the guitar from the corner (again). Indeed, Manual masters it
       amazingly well and overwhelms the listener with strong and soft melodies, soundscapish fragments and fluffy noises which
       remind us of bands like To Roccoco Rot, and the Chicago scene. The combination of classical acoustic instruments,
       his skills on the guitar/bass/piano, the droning and sweeping synth sounds and crackling electronic beats fixes broken
       pieces together and lets you drift away in memories. Manual songs are downtempo with plenty of space for the big melodies
       he presents. Listening to it, we are reminded of dewy asphodels in the spring. Sunny and dreamy, Manual draws a flowery
       picture of overwhelming color within his well-structured songs. No doubt, he has the potential to convince fans of modern
       electronica and Hoboken neo-folk and bring them all together to smell the buds of spring in the garden of Jim
       O'Rourke.

Artist:	MANUAL
Title:	Ascend
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 027CD

2002 release. Ascend, the title of Manual's second album, shows the way this music is going. At any time it
       is uplifting in a melancholic way, it directs into the inner self or into some far distant nowhere. All these emotional
       paradoxes stand in a tradition of many a great sound-sculptor starting with 4AD-acts such as Cocteau Twins, the
       swathing surrealism of My Bloody Valentine, the intense lethargy of Talk Talk up to the sheer beauty of
       Slowdive. With these traditions in mind, the music is carefully transferred into here and now while never losing a
       certain sunken quality. All those soothing, opalescent sounds may come from out of old analog synthesizers, but
       Jonas' indie-heart is still beating on the right side. One or the other subtle guitar part bears witness to that.
       Same goes for Limp, Jensen's other project in which he shares his vision with three friends to follow a similar
       path with different measures. Their debut album Orion is the perfect companion to Manual's body of work.

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