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Mangel is a 1-man-sideproject, made by the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the Power Metal-Band Involution. The tracks of the 4-track-EP came into being in the years 2010-2014. The EP was exclusively produced in a small student room and is exclusively released digital in cause for financial reasons. Mangel should especially be interesting for listeners of bands like Wolves in the throne room, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Farsot, Woods of Desolation or Negator. Catchy guitar runs in combination with fast blasts form a rough, dark and at the same time musical unity, which is completed by desperately angry vocals....

Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005) was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics. Mangelsdorff was born in Frankfurt, Germany and had violin lessons as a child and was self-taught on guitar. His brother, alto saxophonist Emil Mangelsdorff, introduced him to jazz (which was forbidden in Germany during the Nazi time) After the war Mangelsdorff was working as a guitarist and took up trombone in 1948. In the 1950s Mangelsdorff played with the bands of Joe Klimm (1950-53), Hans Koller (1953-54) (featuring Attila...

Albert Mangelsdorff on trombone (an instrument MUCH more highly respected in Germany than anywhere else in the world), Heinz Sauer on alto and soprano sax and Gunter Kronberg on alto, Günter Lenz (bass) and Ralf R. Hübner (drums) carrying an unshakeable rhythm section. .