Manuel Mota

Manuel Mota
With public activity since 1990, he studied and experimented with prepared guitar and created drone-related pieces. Since aproximately 1997 he shifted his interests to the development of his fingerstyle guitar work. That is still his main focus of activity. At the same time he started working in a regular basis with bassist and visual artist Margarida Garcia with whom he has been performing live and recording. Also member of groups Curia, Dru and Osso Exótico . Founded the record label "Headlights" in 1998 and, almost exclusively, released his work there. He also found time to graduate in Architecture in 1996 and has been producing visual art work - drawings and videos- but rarely showed them publicly. His artistic activity has been mostly underground and that is an important cause for aspects that are inner part of his work- unadorned directness, simplicity of means and lo-fi home-recording are notable examples on that.