mel mann is the solo project of musician Nicolás Melmann. With one record released, the second on its way, and producing music for theatre, mel mann uses purely electronic resources with sounds of organic instruments. The result: " nocturnal and introspective music" in song form. In live shows selected images from artists such as Nan Goldin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, acompany his permormative adventure, cementing his audiovisual aesthetics and recontextualising both sound, image and the sensations that lie in the boundary between both.
His most apparent influences include Low, Coil, Four Tet, while the visual and audio explorations that go on behind these nourish both the visceral and the intellectual sensations of mel mann's music.
To hear his music: www.myspace.com/melmanns

Born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and raised in the coastal town of Miramar, Nicolás Melmann, or mel mann, undertakes an extensive musical search under the influence of post-rock and indietronic, among the broader spectrums of "thinking music". Mel mann combines the ethereal and introspective with electronic elements whose organic textures contrast the synthesised sounds. In his live shows, always thematic, he places great importance in his borrowed images, taken from artists such as Nan Goldin, William Klein, Nobuyoshi Araki and Francis Bacon. Combining the force of the visual with the almost placid sensation of his music the result is unquieting.

After many years of playing with ambient/noise bands, mel mann reached the conclusion that working alone is more effective in realising his personal musical ideas. In the spring of 2005 Kyoko, mel mann's first record was released independently and had a limited distribution. Inspired by The Box, Takashi Miike's short film from the Three Extremes trilogy, his music makes connections with Tindersticks, Julee Cruise, Four Tet, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Tortoise, and the soundtracks of Angelo Badalamente. Mel mann is currently working on his second album.