mana3
Mana3 (Chris Prenter/Moala Withey/Daryl Withey), part of the ‘new breed’ of internet savvy artist that has been selling its music online for the past two years. They have been their Turmic Records top download artist for the past year, with a respectable 1,000 downloads per month average. They are receiving on average 200 hit’s a day on their myspace page (www.myspace.com/mana3nz) which has been achieved without promotional advertising. Their last report showed 14000 downloads and streams.
Mana3 have released two self-produced albums (Resonater - September 2004, START AT THE END September 2006) which they are currently promoting. To date, they have played gigs alongside of Scribe, Fur Patrol, Dave Dobbyn and Fat Freddy’s Drop having played at the likes of The Jackson Street Fiesta - Petone, The Summer Hummer Festival - Masterton and most recently The Parihaka International Peace Festival on 6 January 2007 featuring Che Fu, Kora, Katchafire, Cornerstone Roots and many other top acts.
These are all big festivals in NZ with more than 10000 attending each event.
Mana3 have recently entered into a remix project with New York based Turmic Records artist “Cee-Rock, The Fury”. The Fury has worked alongside Hip Hop artist’s NAS & PDiddy, and has recently released his album “Bringin the Howza” in South Africa. There are negotiations currently taking place for The Fury’s music to be released in New Zealand. Mana3 and The Fury are looking forward to being able to work together further in the future, with The Fury recording remix versions of two songs from Mana3’s latest album START AT THE END.
The remix Little Things is now being featured on the Dominos Pizza website right across America.
Mana3 will soon have videos for their two current singles Killafornia and Bodysway available online and on selected music shows.
This band believes in doing it themselves and taking their music as far as they can by taking advantage of opportunities that they come across and by taking their high energy live show to as many people as they can.