The Manual and The Machine

tMatM is a 2-piece melodic noise band. We live in San Rafael, CA. We hear peacocks on the road sometimes.

Paul Gaffney plays guitar, bass, keys and electronics, and loops them; Dan Gudgel loops drums, harmonica and electronics, and shouts.

We listen to things. Skinny Puppy, Steely Dan. God Speed You Black Emperor!, Godspell. Tortoise, Fugazi, Mogwai, Phillip Glass, Bruce Springsteen, John Cage, The Mountain Goats, Steve Reich, Ministry, Negativland, Loudon Wainwright III, Robin Williams on Fire, Megadeth, Ministry, John McLaughlin, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman, Brokeback, Savath+Savalas, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Directions in Groove, Directions in Music, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Loftus, Lamb, Bjork.

Contact: vinylpuma+tmatm@gmail.com

I bought a dollar-and-a-half pint of blackberries in Hannibal and crossed the Missouri River into Kansas. Spent a day driving…
by St. Joe, the blackberries had fermented and I was throwing as many out as I was eating, seeding blackberry bushes all along Highway 36.