Michael Banabila

BIOGRAPHY
Musician / producer, best known for his VoizNoiz 1.
His work shows a special interest in electronic manipulations of the human voice, and in composing / re-arranging musical Elements with the use of sampled textual fragments.
Besides acoustic instruments , Banabila uses found objects, electronics, field recordings, shortwave /tv/ film recordings, vocoder-plugs, and self made instruments.
His recordings can often be discribed as cinematic and atmospheric.
Banabila has composed musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, video art, theatre plays and choreographies.
In 2000, Banabila produced Arhil , the critically acclaimed debut album from Moroccan singer Ali Bahia El Idrissi (Boudisque recordings).
On the same label Banabila released his 2 electronic dark-ambient works ; Spherics, part 1 & 2. (Boudisque recordings)
In 2001 Banabila joined Holger Czukay's internet collabs for the track 10 Steps to heaven on the cd Linear city (InsideOut Music).
In 2003 Banabila received the prestigious Dutch Edison Jazz Award for the cd VoizNoiz 3, with trumpet-player Eric Vloeimans (Challenge).

The abums Voiznoiz 1 & 2 and Spherics 1 were also released on Tonecasualties (L.A.) and Pork recordings (Hull/London).

The tracks Plein, Ramgana, & E.T. , originally composed for the theatre play Eiland by Orkater, were previously self-released on Hilarious expedition, a limited edition of a 2cdr soundscape-album (Tapu Records).


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