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Between 1989 and 1997 he studied and experimented with prepared guitar, mainly acoustic, and focused his work on drone music, influenced by Phill Niblock and Louisiana Monte Young.
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Manuel Mota
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Mota started playing guitar at 15. In the late 1980s his discovery of experimental music, jazz and all the underground activity of that period inspired him to turn his work public, which happened in 1989. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a personal language for fingerstyle guitar and started working in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia.
He collaborated closely with Sei Miguel from 1997 to 2005.
In 1998 he founded Headlights, a record label. Artists whom Mota has played and recorded with include Tetuzi Akiyama, Chris Corsano, Lukas Ligeti, Mattin, Donald Miller (of Borbetomagus), Phill Niblock, Gino Robair, and Ernesto Rodrigues.
Dorsal, w/ Ernesto Rodrigues and Gabriel PaiukCD, Creative Sources CS012, Lisbon 2004 Small Damage Under Appearance, w/ Margarida Garcia and Alfredo Costa MonteiroCDr, Thin Ice, Lisbon 2003 Ra Clock, Sei MiguelCD, Headlights h06, Lisbon 2002 Assemblage, Ernesto RodriguesCD, Creative Sources CS007, Lisbon 2002 Noe’s Lullaby, David MaranhaCD, Rossbin, Italy 2002 Still Alive in Bairro Alto, Sei MiguelCD, Headlights h05, Lisbon 2001 Circunscrita, David Maranha, Civil Defense, Namskeio, Lausanne, 2000 Token, Sei Miguel, Civil Defense, AnAnAnA, Lisbon 1999 Chasing Sonic Booms, Rafael ToralCD, Ecstatic Peace!, New York 1998.
