DAMANEK - ON TRACK (2017 GUY MANNING BAND PROJECT)

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Genre-defying, sophisticated tracks combining impressive technical proficiency with catchy hooks and vast soundscapes … and it features NICK MAGNUS!

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Following an impressive debut show at 2016’s Summer’s End festival DAMANEK (Guy Manning – vocals / keyboards / guitars) Dan Mash (MASCHINE – bass), Marek Arnold: (TOXIC SMILE/SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR - saxes / clarinet) and Sean Timms (SOUTHERN EMPIRE/UNITOPIA - keyboards / backing vocals) release their first album: ‘On Track’ in May 2017!

After 14 years, Guy Manning disbanded his own MANNING band and went on the lookout for other more collaborative projects. He was contacted in 2013 by Mark Trueack (ex UNITOPIA) to join the debut line up of a project to be called the UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY (UPF). Guy also helped to enhance the UPF line up by contacting and recruiting his friends Marek Arnold and Dan Mash.
Guy contributed, keyboards, acoustic instruments and arrangements to the debut album: ‘Fall In Love With The World’ alongside Marek (keyboards / saxes) and Dan (bass).
UPF toured Europe after their debut performance at Summers End X in 2014 and the album was released shortly after. The plan was to go on to record another UPF album, and so Guy settled into a prolific writing period of music/lyrics with UPF in mind. However, this did not in fact happen as the tour had sadly proven that it was quite difficult to keep this very international and geographically challenged line up together and to write/record/perform as an ensemble.
At this point, Guy decided that he should use some of his accrued material on a project of his own, but he still desired to have partners involved. He contacted Marek and Dan to form a brand new entity to be called: DAMANEK (after DAn, MANning and MarEK) and then, subsequently, good friend Sean Timms was also invited in to complete the group.
The newly formed DAMANEK then settled into recording eight of Guy’s pieces for the debut album.

To record ‘On Track’, the quartet needed additional musicians and so a stellar cast list of people they knew or had worked with before was assembled to help out and colour/finish the tracks – These are…
Brody Thomas Green (SOUTHERN EMPIRE – drums)
Tim Irrgang (UPF – percussion)
Antonio Vittozzi (SOUL SECRET – guitars)
Luke Machin (MASCHINE / KIAMA / TANGENT – guitars)
Stephen Dundon (MOLLY BLOOM – flute)
Nick Magnus (ex STEVE HACKETT band – keyboards)
Phideaux (vocals)
Ulf Reinhardt (SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR – drums)

The ‘On Track’ selection, dealing with some quite big Socio-Economic issues and employing Guy’s natural narrative/story telling style of composition had now been assembled.
Sean Timms’ sleek production adds to the overall sense of quality and class on this impressive debut.

‘On Track’ was released on 25th May 2017.

Also available by DAMANEK …
IN FLIGHT (2018 2nd album from Guy Manning project) CD – Stock # 2097530

DAMANEK: ON TRACK Track List:

01. Nanabohzo & The Rainbow
02. Long Time Shadow Falls
03. The Cosmic Store
04. Believer-Redeemer
05. Oil Over Arabia
06. Big Parade
07. Madison Blue
08. Dark Sun