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SUMMARY:MANAS w/ Touchdown Jesus
LOCATION:Manny’s
DESCRIPTION:MANAS\n\nTashi Dorji: guitar\n\nThom Nguyen: drums\n\nChe Chen:
  guitar\, percussion\, homemade instruments\n\nMANAS is guitarist Tashi Do
 rji\, drummer Thom Nguyen and Che Chen (of 75 Dollar Bill) on guitar\, per
 cussion and homemade instruments. Steeped in years of friendship and a coo
 perative\, mutual-aid ethos\, the group has gained a reputation for intens
 e\, cathartic live shows characterized by Dorji and Chen’s guitars\, hyp
 notic one moment and ecstatically abrasive the next\, and Nguyen’s multi
 -limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel. Chen’s battery of aux
 iliary percussion and homemade instruments can refract Nguyen's multi-dire
 ctional rhythms or create ritualistic settings for the trio’s synchronis
 tic interplay. Their post-hardcore take on free improvisation draws on the
 ir collective loves of punk\, grindcore\, black metal\, free jazz\, noise 
 and other extreme sonics\, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temple tradition
 s of Asia and the Himalayas.\n\nDorji and Nguyen originally formed MANAS a
 s a duo in 2012 in Asheville\, NC and immediately caught the ears of the m
 any undergrounds they traversed via near relentless touring throughout the
  2010s. Originally from Bhutan\, where he absorbed US/UK rock and heavy me
 tal via bootleg cassettes while surrounded by a family full of folk musici
 ans\, Dorji arrived stateside for college and immersed himself in Ashevill
 e’s DIY punk scene where he met Nguyen\, a Vietnamese-Mississippian tran
 splant who had been playing in local free rock outfits Nest Egg and Mendoc
 ino. The two met Chen as 75 Dollar Bill (Chen’s trance rock band with dr
 ummer Rick Brown) and MANAS’ tour routes crisscrossed the US\, and the t
 rio became fast friends. After many collaborations over the years\, Chen o
 fficially joined the group in 2025 for a US tour and produced the recordin
 g sessions for their forthcoming album Where? (Amish Records\, Spring 2027
 ). A powerful statement ushering in a new phase in the band’s evolution
 \, Where? also features guest appearances from extended family members Ale
 x Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches) and drummer Lesley Mok.\n\nBoletos: https:
 //dice.fm/event/xegkg3-manas-w-touchdown-jesus-6th-dec-mannys-state-colleg
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