Where and who is Manuel Mota in 2007 ? I’m not talking about finding his
email adress or website or trying to locate him on a map.
No map will do, he is his own. He is a presence, a passion, a source of
light and inteligence, an evidence. – Two discs : one says Acoustic Guitar
the other one Electric Guitar. It is probably about the maximum
information one could give. This double album is like a book but each of his
records are like that. To me his music involves all the history of music
since the word music has been found. He improvises songs, standards,
traditionals, repeated lines, landscapes, attacks, chords, gaps, suites,
links, bridges and language. He Strings them. While listening to this music
i start to see Picasso drawing on a glass in front of Clouzot’s camera
in »Le Mystere Picasso«. Mota is also a mystery, you can’tell what happens,
how does he provokes so many ideas in you and where does this come from. You
ll never be a passive listener here. He permanently confronts you to the
origins. All of them. He definetely has left any idea of Styles far behind
himself. Anyway most musical terms would only define a small part or an
isolated apect of his whole being.playing. He is someone giving you
something in the hands. Something pure, something naked and fragile, but
also timeless and nameless. The idea before the verb, before society or
aside. In the worst case you should collect all his albums and place them in
your library. Just watch them and await the time when you ll open one and
listen. His music will ask you Who are you and Where are you ?
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