"things are happening at the same time" is now out of print, but Yann at dragonseye records has put it up on itunes.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=281780194&s=143441

just as good as the real thing minus the book of drawings and neat packaging that came with the original cdr.
thanks.

here are some videos of my show last summer in santa monica
http://www.youtube.com/user/dragu74


these are some random new reviews.
here is a new review of
"parings"
http://www. tokafi. com/newsitems/cd-feature-marc-manning-yann-novak-pairings/

here is a quick review and interview of skeletons!
http://www. loop. cl/index. php?option=com_content&task=view&id=436&Itemid=26

re posted from other pages...
Some of you may know i have been in the hospital for the past 2 and a half weeks. im finally home as of yesterday. i had surgery on my pancreas and was asleep for 2 days in there somewhere. i Really want to thank every one for all your help, flowers, well wishes, and thoughts. i still have a long way to go to recover but the hard part is almost over. so thanks everyone. ill try to be online more to answer emails and messages.

been meaning to post this great review.

Mike Olliver
Smallfish

WEBSITE

Oh, this is just a beauty of a release. Simple, lush, beautifully played guitar pieces with a lightly ambient touch which emphasises the nature of the room it was recorded in. Earthy, warm and fragile sounding there’s an honesty here that will please your ears no end. I can’t fault it really and have been enjoying it for some time. It’s one of those things I keep going back to as it has a timeless quality which suits many different moods. Truly gorgeous and another outstanding release from Dragon’s Eye.

from loop.cl.
its a translation that is a little spotty in places. but you will get the drift.

Marc Manning San Francisco native artist is a Portland based musician who explores the possibilities of the guitar. He has a discography of 5 releases on Tract Records, Dragons Eye Recordings, hinah and Not on Label and collaborates in a bunch of albums, EP’s and singles. One of his latest collaborations is with Dragons Eye label director Yann Novak on ’Pairings’ (2007).
Manning verges in Ambient music and craft six gorgeous pieces ranging from delicate guitar chord to hidden guitar discrete distortion. He evolves in subtle finger picking creating spirals of soft string sections.
An endless guitar soundscape runs the whole album which is very melodic, melancholic and moreover with captivating atmospheres.
www.dragonseyerecordings.com, www.myspace.com/everythingisfine and www.virb.com/marcmanning

Guillermo Escudero
April 2008

im posting this from my hotel in durham nc where im bored out of my mind....
its raining here tonight and aparently thats a good thing because they were like almost totally out of water... its really no wonder cause the water pressure in my hotel shower is like a tropical monsoon!! its so crazy! and in a hotel even. i thought that hotels put those low flow shower heads on so you could not use too much water and run up their water bill... not durham i guess... and after spending a day dodging barbeque i finally found a nice vietnamese place that had wierd bubble tea... they seemed kinda shocked to actually get a customer which added to my worry. but im ok now really
now im way off point...
i wanted to let people know about my new cd....
im more proud of this one than anything i have ever done.
so i hope some people get to hear it.
there are some audio files getting ready to get posted on here but till then you can hear stuff at dragons eye link below.

new cd entitled " a skeleton soon and then forever"
is all finished and ready for you to own it. if you get it from the dragons eye website you can choose the color of the hand made booklet of drawings that ships with it!
here is the link!
http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com/catalog/de5015.html
its all about where i feel i am on the body / skeleton / dust scale... it changes from instance to instance. tonight for instance im feeling kinda fleshy.
where do you think you are on that scale either mental or physical?
hope you enjoy it. it s a great record to play loud in the dark on a rainy night.
let me know what you think.
thanks
marc

here are some samples of songs from my new album comming out soon on dragons eye recordings.


http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com/catalog/de5015.html
hope you enjoy them!

Manning & Novak - Pairings - CD - Dragon's Eye



www.dragonseyerecordings.com

Dragon's Eye is a label with ever increasing scope and ambition, and this new series of works entitled Pairings explores an established formula, by combining traditional instrumentation with laptop, and digital processing. The Seattle-based label has settled into a comfortable niche, releasing material by close friends and associates whose work shares similar spirit, if not methodology.

The hybrid Pairings that emerge from Novak's laptop and Manning's guitar assemblages are delicate scrolls of ambience, that effortlessly unfurl, bearing the listener on warm, soporific waves, slender tendrils of tone that shimmer and cascade. This is auditory anaesthetic, a tonal balm that cleanses the spirit, and activates the mind of a receptive listener. After the initial washes of the first two tracks, the third piece (Pairing 2 , part 1) is quietly epic, almost filmic in quality, as wave after wave of glistening guitar, crashes over a tonal backdrop, it resembles Fennesz, or Herve Boghossian with its filigree textures, and understated charm. Throughout, I am reminded of Durutti Column, circa "LC", as the reverb-drenched guitar illicits powerful and evocative emotional sequences, gently building emotional intensity, and tension, which explodes into finely wrought glissandi, that gradually erode and fizzle into overdriven digital noughts and ones. At first impression, this is not an overtly ground-breaking collection of works, but as the album approaches its finale, the luscious ambience is subtly overwritten with more exploratory techniques, and at the "sweet spot", the interface of chaos and equilibrium, we are treated to some very special moments, that most likely blossomed free of human intervention..once again lapsing into Fennesz - tinted territory, but all the more interesting for that. More of the same please. I look forward to the next installment. BGN

hi
ive been meaning to post something here lately but kept getting side tracked. last weekend i spent recording in seattle! enough stuff for 2 new releases in the comming months, one a collaboration with yann novak. he processed my guitar and voice and turned them into cool and still ambient landscapes.

i also recorded a new full lenght with kamran of son of rose as enginer its all dark and moody guitar drones

not sure when these will be released but just letting you know there is a lot of stuff on the way !
thanks
marc

new review of "things are happening..." and "long distance" which is almost all out of print! .. in sonomu.com!


Heavy Lids, Things Are Happening at the Same Time (CDR Dragon´s Eye Recordings)
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Dragon´s Eye Recordings is a label that seems to put as much thought and care into the packaging of its music as into the music itself. And why not? While you cannot tell the proverbial book from its cover, it is in fact the cover that the music will be spending most of its life in, either on your shelf or in your hand. Why shouldn´t it be as attractive as possible? Each release, regardless of size, is a appealingly austere masterpiece.

The label is run out of Seattle by Yann Novak and has previously showcased two tiny, perfect pieces of collaborative experimental ambient on three-inch CDRs (a third volume has yet to be released since the right packaging still has to be decided upon) under the collective rubrik "Long Distance". The first is reputed to be a collaboration between Novak and Eno On (whom I presume is from the land of Erewhon). This is an eminently minimal, spacey investigation of, well, space, with pulsars of analogue-sounding synth resonating into deep emptiness, like signals being sent out there at random and sometimes, improbably, being answered.

The second (or first actual) collaboration involved the talents of Marc Manning (aka Heavy Lids) from nearby Portland. This short work is similarly minimal, a slow, remorseless trek across nearly featureless geography. An absolutely gorgeous whisper and hum flecked with small incidents in sound, stretched out over exactly twenty minutes.

Very recently, Dragon´s Eye celebrated the release of Heavy Lids´ first solo recording for the label, a 36-minute drone that explores "scale, change and relativity". Things are Happening at the Same Time opens tentatively with monotonal notes being struck on electric guitar, gradually becoming overlaid and eventually evolving into a soundscape reminiscent of a summer meadow shimmering and juddering with life. Slowly a background rumble also becomes discernable, providing the higher-pitched focal point of the music with more heft as it continues to evolve.

Eventually, this all congeals into an armada of quivering, reedy sounds rising monolithically while shooting off odds riffs from the mass on irregular occasions, until the piece finally subsides. Really, really very nice.
http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com

Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:17, 19 Mar 2007