The story of the band begins in 2006 with Daniele Crisci on guitar, Marcello Costa on electric piano and synth, Fabio Cristadoro on bass and Riccardo Pavone on drums. Manomanca's approach to the music is a mix of each component's experience, it's sound is based on istinct and improvisation, where the analogic noise it's joined up with digital-electronic good vibes. It's an approach which find in the jamsession a moment where any component listens and dialogs each other, suggesting his own ideas.
This formula receives an immediate consense by the public, so on july 2006 one of the first live performance of the band it's been transmitted by a local radio.
On 2007 arrives the first self-producted EP (5/10) composed of four inedited tracks and a personal arrangement of Children song's, composition of piano solo by Chick Corea.
thanks to the EP 5/10 the band is selected for the Italia Wave Festival, arriving within the first twenty bands of the local artistic groups.In winter 2008 the repertory of the band has found it's own street and Manomanca begins the production of Handmade, the first LP, based on twelve tracks of inedited instrumental music, which walk through different styles such as post-rock, funk and fusion.
Listening to the album you can find many different music styles and many ifluences suggested by the own taste of the involved musicians. Within this atmosphere you can listen to some bands that for most have influenced Manomanca's sound, bands like Cinematic Orchesta, Tortoise, or Radiohead.
In order to create the LP, Manomanca devolves upon Nino Label the recording and mixing of the tracks and refers to Massive Arts in Milan for the mastering. The aim is to develop a tale-sound which brings all the tracks to the end. The final product is a concept album that moves inside enviroment recordings to tell about a story about a night trip in a metropolis.
Handmade it's been presented in May 2009 and immediatly made available on the net thanks to distributors like CD Baby, Amazon and ITune Store. Handmade's settings bring Manomanca to compare with other kind of artistic experiences and new kind of exhibitions.
2009-2010 it's the beginning of a new collaboration, which finds in "La compagnia dei focolieri" a new way of live performances and music entertainment proposed around the Sicily.
A brand new show is now on working thanks to the dancer Emilia Guarino which has found in Manomanca the best soundtrack for her live shows. This last collaboration has introduced a new component to the band, Dario Nicchitta, a jazz saxophonist. Its sound drags Manomanca to a new artistic research, bringing them to new ideas and new compositions.