new record in planning stages
Current mood: warm
Category: Music

hi!
im letting you know that im in the planning stages of a new record. it will be recorded in the fall and winter and hopefully be released in the spring of 09 buy ultra hard gel records.
it will pick up where "air in the trees" left off but will sound a lot better. (recorded in a studio not on a laptop in a basement)
the working title at this moment is "into the walls and into the floors"
there will be as usual a booklet of drawings and maybe lyrics.
thats all i know for now...

Currently listening : The Devil, You + Me By The Notwist Release date: 2008-06-17

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home home home.!
Current mood: touched
Category: Life

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.

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mp3’s of back catalog !!! (better quality than itunes)
Current mood: angsty
Category: Music

you can get mp3's of most of my stuff for way cheaper than before!
its a better deal than itunes!
here are the links to all the downloads.

EVERYTHING IS FINE: The Telephone Is Breathing
http://cdbaby.com/cd/eif

EVERYTHING IS FINE: vents
http://cdbaby.com/cd/eif2

EVERYTHING IS FINE: Ghosts are knocking on walls
http://cdbaby.com/cd/eif3

MARC MANNING: Air In The Trees
http://cdbaby.com/cd/marcmanning

the quality is better than itunes as well!
thanks for checking it out!
marc

Currently listening : Summer Make Good By Múm Release date: 04 May, 2004

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live videos on youtube
Category: Music

live videos on you tube from the february 14th show at the san francisco eagle
5 of them to be exact
thanks to everyone who came. thanks to brad for taking the video.
here is the link.
http://www.youtube.com/user/nottherealbrad
thank you thank you thank you.
marc

Currently listening : Liferz By Blood on the Wall Release date: 22 January, 2008

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"everything is fine" is a full band again
Current mood: groggy
Category: Music

finally after 4 years "everything is fine" is a full band again. we will be posting some shows on here in february for san francisco. dragons eye recordings is releasing a solo instrumental guitar album by marc manning, look for it in the coming months. im going to put most of my solo music and news on the heavy lids page. and keep this page for just everything is fine stuff. hope to see you out at some shows.
marc

Currently listening : Pornography [Deluxe Edition] By The Cure Release date: 26 April, 2005

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"parings" reviewed!
Current mood: calm
Category: Music

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

Currently listening : Boss By Magik Markers Release date: 25 September, 2007

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new cd out in december!! MARC MANNING / YANN NOVAK | Pairings
Current mood: awake
Category: Music

out in december!
till then you can hear samples of the new cd here! http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com/catalog/der004.html


MARC MANNING / YANN NOVAK | Pairings
Dragon's Eye Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Pairings, the first full length collaboration between Marc Manning (Heavy Lids) and Yann Novak. Pairings is an exploration into a now standard formula, a traditional instrument processed by laptop. Novak and Manning choose to use the formula to explore their often similar emotional states resulting in six improvisations divided into pairs by instrument. The album moves gently through melancholic drones and ambient washes, ending in a soft flurry of fractured melodies. Pairings showcases the tender relationships between songs, instruments and musicians.

also a free download of a live performance is available as a "teaser" to the release of the cd.

http://www.dragonseyerecordings.com/catalog/de6002.html

MANNING / NOVAK | Live @ Chapel Performance Space
Dragon's Eye is pleased to announce an exciting modification to our catalog. The de6000 series will no longer be a CD-R series; rather it will continue as a Free Mp3 Download series. This second installment documents the live performance by Marc Manning and Yann Novak at the Dragon's Eye Second Anniversary showcase at The Chapel Performance Space. This release will also act as a teaser for the forthcoming CD by Marc Manning and Yann Novak, Pairings.

1. Cotton Live 8.25.2007

Mastered by Kamran Sadeghi
Copyright © 2007 Marc Manning & Yann Novak
Cover Photo by Robert Kirkpatrick

woah you read the whole thing! look at you! such a reader.

Currently listening : In Our Nature By José González Release date: 25 September, 2007

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everything is fine dvd!
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Music

here is the link to the new everything is fine dvd
http://www.tractrecords.com/tract_dvd.htm
its from 2001 at the ethical society in philadelphia
with bill moriarty on drums and geof matis on bass
with projections by ben woodward.
it was a great show with some unreleased songs.
thanks
marc

Currently listening : Destroyer’s Rubies By Destroyer Release date: 21 February, 2006

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new song on virb
Current mood: sleepy
Category: Music

i posted a new song "locks" on virb
http://www.virb.com/marcmanning
recorded in san francisco by brad dermanoelian last weekend
hope you enjoy it
let me know what you think
marc

Currently listening : Liars By Liars Release date: 28 August, 2007

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organika ii live recording posted on virb
Current mood: exhausted
Category: Music

http://www.virb.com/marcmanning/music/albums/35831
more than a couple never released songs in there. its all one track so you have to listen to the whole thing. its about 20 mins long,,, short and sweet!

Currently listening : Never Better By Moth Wranglers Release date: 07 December, 2004

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