Latest track from my Australian adventures
                            Feat: Barefoot Biscuit on Tank Drums
                                                    written at dawn in the Daintree Rainforest

Spaces Inbetween

Du bois d'arbres qui poussent dans la forêt !

Using original recordings from the mountains of Nepal, the deserts of India and the jungles of Australia and Central America,  Nango Manchay  has learned and incorporated instruments from all corners of the earth to create an original sound the spans borders and traditional genres.

The result is the expansive album  Under Our Sun which was released on  Desert Trax  on  April 5th 2019. From the opening hit of Varanasi Flame to the closing notes of Diambura the Nango Manchay sound envelops and hypnotizes. The guitarist and sitar player also features on the seminal album  Grouch in Dub and his lush string sound has found a home on  Desert Dwellers label. Nango Manchay’s music is filled with gorgeous melody at each stop along the cosmic journey. Rich, pulsing midtempo breaks and more intricate downtempo and bass-centric musings are held together by the connective thread of real bowed, plucked and strummed strings. 

“Under Our Sun  is a tribute to the unification of humanity and the common goals of peace and understanding that is an underlying part of what makes us all human,” he notes “We are all under the same sun, we share this planet together and this album represents many cultures uniting to create music of beauty that reflects the awe and grandeur of nature, our shared home and the depths of our own consciousness.”

Nango Manchay has collaborated with many artists and has releases planned with Desert Dwellers and Nanosphere over the next year as well as a new Nango Manchay EP.

Festivals recently played or upcoming
Triplicity (UK) 
Ozora (Hungary - With Grouch in Dub)
Anthropos (UK) 
For The Love of Music (UK)
Suti Festival (Portugal - 29th August / 2nd September 2019)

More winter festival dates to be announced soon in Thailand and India

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In the next month or so I'll be relaunching the Utopian Cartography podcast with an interview with Benji Hannus aka Secret Recipe, the genius producer & DJ & co-curator of Wormhole Entertainment & Wormhole Music Group. Then we've got an awesome slate of guests after that, including the futuristic 4D visual artist & VJ Matthew Childers aka Digital Introspect, the surrealist provocateur go-go clown Kris Kaufeldt aka White Tiger, & the woke psy-rap poet Cosmo from the group Hippy Trap. Subscribe on YouTube or your favorite podcast platform; links are all on UtopianCartography.com ▲

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Terence McKenna once said, "If we continue going where we're headed, we'll end up living in a toxic waste dump ruled over by Nazis." 30 years later, we are still driving down that same road. How do we escape this fate? Is there another path? 

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PsyFi DnB + Psy Bass

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