Manas, Nik Rayne
Alone We Are Alone As Far Down As the Sediment (LP)
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2025 stock Originally released February 12, 2022. MANAS -- otherwise known as the duo of iconoclastic guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer extraordinaire Thom Nguyen -- have made tsunami-sized waves in the free jazz and improv scene with their numerous tape and LP releases (drawing praise and support from such luminaries and fellow-travelers as Bill Nace and Ben Chasny) and their face-melting live shows, including high profile touring with Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Back in the summer of 2019 they invited Naujawanan Baidar's N.R. Safi to sit in with them at a show organized at Fleetwoods, a self-proclaimed "rock and roll wedding chapel" in Dorji and Nguyen's current home of Asheville, North Carolina. Captured on tape was roughly thirty minutes of raw and pummeling improvisation, guitar-become-drum-become-guitar, building and collapsing over and over again like a collective howl from the depths of a necrotic capitalist empire in decay. Personnel: Tashi Dorji - electric guitar; N.R. Safi - electric guitar; Thom Nguyen - drums, percussion. Recorded live at Fleetwoods in 2019 by Thom Nguyen. Dedicated to the memory of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish from whom we borrowed the title for this piece.
Format
Recorded live at Fleetwoods in Asheville, North Carolina on August 4th, 2019. Limited to 300 copies.
In November 2023 a small quantity were put up for sale on the Radio Khiyaban bandcamp page to raise funds to support victims of the Herat earthquakes and the beseiged residents of Gaza. These copies were signed by N.R.Safi and had a typed message of thanks (see images)
Release notes
Recorded live at Fleetwoods in Asheville, North Carolina on August 4th, 2019. Limited to 300 copies. In November 2023 a small quantity were put up for sale on the Radio Khiyaban bandcamp page to raise funds to support victims of the Herat earthquakes and the beseiged residents of Gaza. These copies were signed by N.R.Safi and had a typed message of thanks (see images)
| A | Alone We Are Alone As Far Down As the Sediment, Pt. 1 | ||
| B | Alone We Are Alone As Far Down As the Sediment, Pt. 2 |
- Studio Khiyaban
- Artwork, Design
- Nik Rayne
- Composed By, Electric Guitar, Restoration
- Tashi Dorji
- Composed By, Electric Guitar
- Thom Nguyen
- Composed By, Drums, Recorded By
- Chris Hardman
- Mastered By
