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Manysheva - Cat's Town

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Channel: Kwaidanrecords · 2017 · Music

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Faith is first EP of Manysheva, will release the 20th October - Kwaidan.lnk.to/Faith

An exotic-sounding name is about to become intimately familiar as the 28-year-old Russian, real name Valentina, releases her first album under the Manysheva guise. The project marks a new beginning for the young woman, who left everything (including her former band Tinavie) behind over three years ago to join her sweetheart in France. Luckily for us, her first love, music, came along with her.
Right after landing in France in 2013, Valentina set out on a new musical path, to accompany this new chapter of her life. Without her Tinavie bandmates around (although she longs for an eventual reunion,) the young backing musician-turned-singer was ready for her new project. With a new identity, Manysheva, and producer, Marc Collin, she got to work writing a great number of songs, which now form her first LP, Alataou. 
The title is a reference to the Kazakh mountain where she spent a great deal of her childhood. Regardless of language, a striking feature of her voice is its resemblance to a certain icon, the timeless Kate Bush. It turns out however, that Manysheva professes a greater love for another British act – the darker, more ethereal Cocteau Twins, and lead singer Elizabeth Fraser’s voice. Their influence – as well as yet another great Brit’s – was a major foundation of the melodies on Alataou.
Despite its resolutely electronic shell, Manysheva’s music is inhabited by an acoustic soul that carries her purest and most celestial of voices. Dive in and discover its myriad of secrets.

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