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Part of the Indian Influenced collection. Customers who bought Jesse Manno also bought: DAC Crowell, Ruben van Rompaey, The Headroom Project, Voices of Music, Mediva, DJ Cary, Dr Kuch.
"Opium" by Jesse Manno is the 10th best selling Middle-Eastern album of all time.
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Jesse Manno and Beth Quist regularly
collaborate, and Beth can be heard on both "Opium" and "Sea Spirits".
Ty Burhoe, of the group Magnatune artist Curandero, is a guest
artist on Manno's album "Sea Spirits".
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Manno was born into a
performing arts family in New York City in 1966 and grew up in New York
and Colorado. He received his first commission in 1982 and has since
created over eighty original scores for dance, theatre, film and
multimedia productions, including twenty evening length pieces. His
work has been supported by Meet The Composer, Inc. (a division of the
NEA), KRMA Denver PBS TV, The National Guild of Organists, Montgomery
Watson Inc., Bates Dance Festival, and the Colorado Shakespeare
Festival, among others, and has been presented all across the USA, as
well as in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, the U.K.,Taiwan, Hong Kong,
and Saudi Arabia.
Jesse
received a B.A. in Asian Studies from The University of Colorado at
Boulder, where he has been music director of the C.U. dance department
since 1991. In 2002 he became a part time instructor, teaching one
music course per semester. He loves working with many instruments and
genres of music, and often incorporates interesting sound environments
he has recorded during his travels into his work. He also composes and
performs with The Buzz Band (new music on ancient instruments with a
characteristic buzzing sound), and more often with 'Sherefe' Balkan/Middle
Eastern Ensemble, performing regularly in Colorado, California, and New
Mexico.
Recent
projects include a stint at BAM Next Wave Festival in New York with
David Dorfman Dance and composer Amy Denio, a percussive score created
on a tower of used car parts for choreographer Gabriel Masson at the
Bates Dance Festival, and a contemporary ballet soundtrack based on
five of Colorado's native birds with Ballet Nouveau Colorado. He also
recently created a new "underwater" section for David Taylor Dance
Theatre's touring production "Rainforest". Several Cds of his work are
available; Sea Spirits, Music from Theater of the Vampires, Lazer
Vaudeville, Rainforest, and others.
