Manuel Mota

"Experimental jazz and blues guitarist born in Lisbon, Portugal in October 22nd. Started playing guitar in his teens, soloing over records. In the late 80's his discovery of experimental music, jazz and all the underground activity of that period inspired him to turn his work public, which happened in 1989. From that to 1997 he studies and experiments with prepared guitar, mainly acoustic, and focused his work on drone music, influenced by Phill Niblock and La Monte Young. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a personal language for fingerstyle guitar and started working in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia. Collaborated closely with Sei Miguel from 1997 to 2005. Founds the record label Headlights in 1998. Has played and / or recorded with Noel Akchoté,---Tetuzi Akiyama,---Angelina Baldoz,---Tim Barnes,---Alexandre Bellenger,---Gust Burns,---Jessica Catron,---Chris Corsano,---Ernesto Diaz-Infante,---Ferran Fages,---Jaime Fennely,---Chris Forsyth,---Margarida Garcia,---Carlos Giffoni,---Anthony Guerra---Toshio Kajiwara,---David Kendall,---Hans W. Koch---Toshihiro Koike,---Okkyung Lee,---Lukas Ligeti---Fred Lomberg-Holm,---David Maranha,--- Mattin,---Sei Miguel---Donald Miller,---Alfredo Costa Monteiro,---Phill Niblock,---Takehiro Nishide,---Masahiko Okura,---Gabriel Paiuk,---Gino Robair,---Michael Rodgers---Ernesto Rodrigues,---Michael J. Schumacher,---Jonathan Siellaf,---Blaise Siwula,---Michael Thieke,--- Rafael Toral,--- Taku Unami,--- Dan Warburton,---Barry Weisblat-Pedro Gomes--Afonso Simões"