Mangas

Description:

Screen Name:

Mangas

Sex:

M

Age:

47

Studio Musician:

No

Level Of Commitment:

Moderately Committed

Years Playing Music:

30

Gigs Played:

10 to 50

Tend to Practice:

1 time per week

Available to Gig:

1 time(s) per week

I'm looking to set up a collective of musical outcasts with an east meets west flavour - maybe a rock-jazz-folk-soul-blues-funk-rembetika-klezmer-asian-world-roots fusion. I'm a big fan of rembetika and klezmer, as well as blues, rock, punk and jazz. Aside from the listed instruments, I also play bouzouki (greek) and the bodhran. I love the clarinet, fiddle, accordian, flute, baglama, oud, marimba, congas and dhol drum.

Old and young, cool and uncool, committed and not so committed are most welcome... singers from the heart would be great, and if you play some exotic or just plain weird instrument, then that'd be a bonus.

About me... I've played in a few bands over the years - punk (late 70s), blues, soul, classic RnB (80s), done a bit of impromptu jamming with ceilidh and jazz musicians, and the last band I was in was around 2003-2005 (a reasonably bizarre rock band).

Influences:

Fats Waller, Frank Zappa, The Clash, The Klezmatics, Tom Waits, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, Paco Pena, Small Faces, Television, Leo Ferre, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Louis Jordan, Art Blakey, Albert King, Iggy and the Stooges, Curtis Mayfield, Chuck Berry, Satchmo, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklyn, Markos Vamvakaris, Rita Abatzi (listen to the audio clip to get your mind blown), Roza Eskenazi, Sotiria Bellou, Dionisis Savvopoulos...

Equipment List:

Bouzouki, guitars (electric and accoustic), banjelele (which I never got round to learning), keyboard, 60 watt amp, wobbly mike stand, bodhran, several jews harps and several blues harps.

Audio/Video Downloads

1. Gazeli Neva Sabah.wma