*Translated from german

“The five band members, who come from all corners of the world with their intense, creative music. At times a grandiose fusion of vocals and trumpet, a stupendous combination of ambient and jazz with fully composed passages and and a lot of brilliant improvisation. This characterises their special, beautiful and spherical musical universe. The sound is audibly in flowing development and spreads a spirit of optimism, while the instruments are liberated from their usual roles. A fascinating experience!”

Steff Rohrbach

Mantocliff experiments with many aspects of pop, searches for alternatives and intricacy, creates a strong attraction and draws the audience right along into the middle of the spiral to the music’s core where the audience feels most comfortable. Nives Onori’s exceptionally expressive voice and the endless creativity of the five instrumentalists make Mantocliff what it is: music similar to a magical velvet carpet full of sound, sometimes energetic and rhythmic, sometimes soft and whispering and danceable and always vibrant; music like an electrified field of flowers on Super 8.

Kugelförmigkeit fuses eleven instruments from Renaissance, Baroque, jazz and modernity into a coherent genre-defiant musical language. The unusual configuration of instruments is tailored into an imaginary spherical ball of time where present, past and future are interchangeable. Composer and singer Francesca Gaza invites the listener to set himself up in the unstable sensation of fluidity within the world created by the ensemble, which showcases a brotherly relationship between apparently distant principles, reflecting a sort of counterpoint between a modernist distrust due to the realization of the passing of time and a romantic comfort-seeking wish for unity.