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Manual is an alias or a project of a music producer Jonas Munk Jensen from Odense, Denmark.
Until Tomorrow (Morr Music, 2001)
“Until Tomorrow” is the debut of Manual.
“Nova” is a sentimental track with beautiful layers of pads and glockenspiel phrases and few tones of breakbeats.
“Velvet Sunset” is a very beautiful and sentimental track associates journey, is consist of grandiose pads and noise sequence loops.
“I’ll Be Fine” is slow Electronica with breakbeats like Hip Hop. But the composition is Folk taste and nostalgic, synthesizer lead and bell instrument play elegant melodies.
“Frequently” is Pop taste composition Electronica. There’s a nostalgic sweet also melancholic taste.
“Lunate” is unique style Electronica, there are hard breakbeats and sorrowful also very beautiful synthesizer lead melodies.
“Fortnights” is a song like Laptop Folk, with Natural acoustic guitar arpeggios with complex arrangement of pads.
“Baja Nights” is a sentimental and sorrowful composition with impressive and skilful electric guitar(s) solos and pad accompaniment.
“Tomorrow” is a melancholic is a melancholic also bright wonderful composition with bouncing keen breakbeats, and elegant electric piano backing and nostalgic and sweet folk taste melodies are played by electric guitars and bell synthesizer.
An album of humane, natural, beautiful and sentimental excellent Electronica has elegant melodies and cool sound designs.
Ascend (Morr Music, 2002)
“Midnight” is beautiful Electronica with pads, bell synthesizer and breakbeats. The former part is calm, the the later part become dynamic and bright, it expresses the time of daybreak.
“Astoria” is Electronica with sweet guitar riffs and pads accompaniment and hard breakbeats.
“Cassy” is elegant Electronica with beautiful pads layers and soft breakbeats.
“A.M.” is sentimental and silent Electronica. Acoustic guitar plays folk taste nostalgic melodies, distorted guitar and pads plays accompaniment.
The last song “Keep, Coming Back” is European contemporary mood Electronica. The former part make good use of delayed clean and distorted guitars riffs, and pads plays accompaniment. The later part become dynamic and hard breakbeats and beautiful lead synthesizer melodies acoustic guitar backing and pad accompaniment are coexist. It’s the iconic style of Manual.
This album is more sophisticated in sound making, arrangement and composition than the debut album. A good melodic Electronica has acoustic instruments plays.
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