{Black screen- and slowly red light on the horizon.
The Detroit River is burning. Sparks and embers reel
and fly from the blaze and scatter out of the urban
inferno. One by one they plummet into the soft dark
surrounding the city. Green green blue the ashes are
reflections from tv screens, lcd displays, unblinking
eyes, streetlights. In a small corner the diffused
light rejoins.
Enter Steve Saputo- all five o'clock shadow and
bottle green eyes
Enter an idea
a polychromatic landscape of emotion, strange chords
and sublime melodies
Enter Matt Walsh Enter Gjon Gegaj coral eyelids and lashes- bass
building a foundation for castles in the sky
Awash in the embryonic pulse of the hearbeat emerges
Adam Davis essential, innocent
Together these streams of molten consciousness begin
flowing back, back to the ruined volcano of a fallen
metropolis. A blazing stream of sound winding towards
the source of motion. The past and future of
Detroit. Manna and Quail together.
Just over a year ago from the imagination of Steve
Saputo a musical aesthetic emerged blending ethereal
harmonies with a gritty pop rhthym. He formed Manna
and Quail with a handful of talented musicians playing
around Detroit. Each one of the band members brings a
unique musical perspective that complements and completes
Saputo's distinct sound.
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