Man man
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 Man Man at the Coachella Festival 2008 |
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| Genre (s) | Experimental rock |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | http://www.manmanbandband.com/ |
| Founding members | |
| Honus Honus (Ryan Kattner) Sergei Sogay Pow Pow (Christoper Powell) Critter Crat Chang Wang (Billy Dufala) |
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| Current occupation | |
| Honus Honus (Ryan Kattner) Pow Pow (Christoper Powell) Turkey Moth (Jamey Robinson) Chang Wang (Billy Dufala) Jefferson |
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Man Man is an American experimental rock band from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Man Man is known for their exuberant concerts. During the performance, the members are usually dressed in uniform white and painted with war paint.
The band uses pseudonyms - the front man is Honus Honus and the other members are Pow Pow, Chang Wang, Turkey Moth and Jefferson.
You use many instruments, but mostly the focus is on the piano by the singer and songwriter Honus Honus. He is accompanied by a large selection of instruments that the other members play. Honus usually uses a normal piano during studio recordings, but plays a Fender Rhodes or Nord Electro 3 during concerts . Other instruments in the band include the clavinet , Moog Little Phatty , sousaphone , saxophone , trumpet , French horn , flute , bass clarinet , drums , euphonium , Fender Jazz Bass , Danelectro baritone guitar , xylophone , marimba , melodica and various percussion instruments, including pots, pans, children's toys, Chinese funeral horns, spoons, broken dishes and fireworks.
history
Man Man released their debut album The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face in the winter of 2004 on Ace Fu Records. Their first full tour followed with the successor Six Demon Bag from 2006, which received good reviews.
In 2007 they were the opening act for Modest Mouse on several appearances during the US tour and thus received further attention. Shortly thereafter, Nike began showing a series of promotional videos with Rainn Wilson while Man Man's 10 lb Mustache was playing as background music. This song, as well as Feathers and Engwish Bwudd , was played in the eighth episode of the third season of Weeds . Man Man also recorded a cover version of Little Boxes for the intro of the episode.
The third studio album Rabbit Habits was released on ANTI Records in April 2008, accompanied by a North American tour in March with Yeasayer and Tim Fite . The band performed at various festivals including Voodoo Experience , Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , All Tomorrow's Parties in Camber Sands ( East Sussex ), San Miguel Primavera Sound in Barcelona and the Meredith Music Festival in Australia in the same year.
They recorded their fourth album, Life Fantastic , with producer Mike Mogis (of Bright Eyes and Monsters of Folk ) in Omaha , Nebraska . It was released on May 10, 2011. In advance, the album was sold during the accompanying tour and released for free listening on SoundCloud .
Trivia
The title of the album Six Demon Bag is a reference to the movie Big Trouble in Little China .
Before the band agreed on the name Man Man, they were called Gamelon and, for a short time, Magic Blood.
Honus Honus recorded an album with Nicholas Thorburn ( Islands , The Unicorns ) and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, The Shins ) under the name Mister Heavenly .
Discography
Studio albums
- The Man in a Blue Turban with a Face (2004)
- Six Demon Bag (2006)
- Rabbit Habits (2008)
- Life Fantastic (2011)
- On Oni Pond (2013)
- Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between (2020)
EPs
- Man Man EP (2004)
- Little Torments 7 " (2008)
swell
- ↑ US chart history
- ↑ David Marek: Catching Up With ... Man Man. Paste, accessed May 6, 2011 .
- ↑ The Shins, Man Man Do Weeds. Stereogum, July 9, 2007, accessed May 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Matthew Fiander: Man Man: Life Fantastic (New Album). (No longer available online.) Prefix, archived from the original on April 4, 2011 ; accessed on May 6, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tom Breihan: Man Man Announce New Album. Pitchfork , March 8, 2011, accessed May 6, 2011 .
- ↑ Man Man - Life Fantastic. SoundCloud , April 29, 2001, accessed May 6, 2011 .
Web links
- Official website (English)