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Manel is a four-piece band from Barcelona, Catalonia. Formed in 2007 by school friends Guillem Gisbert, Roger Padilla, Martí Maymó and Arnau Vallvé, they began simply by recording a demo and entering the Sona9 competition, in which they finished in 2nd place. With the prize money, they decided to take the opportunity to record their first full-length album, Els Millors Professors Europeus, which they released in 2008. Little by little, they came to the attention of the Catalan and Spanish public, through their fresh style, word of mouth and a little bit of social networking. What followed was a year...

Acoustic guitarist Maneli Jamal has lived in five different countries (Iran, Belarus, Germany, USA, Canada) and moved twenty times by the time he was 18. The young artist gained a sense of musical maturity rarely seen among his peers especially when he transforms his nomadic life experiences into musical movements using extended guitar techniques. There aren't many players in his style that have Jamal's balance of power and sensitivity, nor his breadth of ideas. His rhythmic concepts can be alternately short and dense, or explored carefully through several movements and real life stories. This becomes evident with having won countless...

Singer and multi-instrumentalist, Zé Manel is the most famous and influential contemporary musician to emerge from the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. By the age of seven, Zé, playing drums and acoustic guitar, had become the main attraction of Super Mama Djombo band. During the 1970's, this seminal orchestra played a major role in the liberation struggle of this former Portuguese colony. In 1982, Zé released his first solo album "Tustumunhos di Aonti" (Yesterday's Testimony), which sounded the alarm over the formation of a new repressive ruling class in Guinea-Bissau. The album was a national event (people in Guinea-Bissau today...

-Members- Masakubi Nakamura: woodbass, vocals Ukkalin: guitar, chorus Joy Neck Robo: drums, chorus Formed in Tokyo, 2004, by Masakubi and originally named Ashigaru. Changed name into Ane-Kubi Manelai in 2008, and currently the band is taking a non-limited break since 2009. They are singing and speaking in the language of their own Kubi-go. They hate to conform to the history or government and reject to sing in somebody's language=Japanese just because they want to create their original world of Psychobilly music by their own language -Discography- [Ashigaru - Ei Ane-Kubi Manelai Kawalay-Yai!!] 2008 as Ashigaru Website: http://www.myspace.com/anekubi .