Dan Mangan

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Dan Mangan (born April 28, 1983) is a Vancouver-based Canadian musician.

He has also been a contributing writer for The Guardian's Arts section, Montecristo Magazine and Huffington Post Canada, and has won two Juno Awards.

Personal life

Mangan's family moved often, residing in both the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, but primarily in his current residence of Vancouver. He was influenced by his parents' record collection, especially the music of Nick Drake and The Beatles. At sixteen, Mangan started a band called Basement Suite with some classmates and played gigs at local community centres. Though his family had returned to Vancouver by age two, he was born in Smithers, British Columbia.

Mangan studied at the University of British Columbia, earning a BA in English Literature.

He lives in Vancouver with his wife Kirsten Slenning and two children.

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Career

Mangan's first collection of recordings came in 2003: All At Once, a collection of simply recorded acoustic songs. Throughout the Vancouver area, five hundred copies were printed and sold or given away. Mangan produced Postcards & Daydreaming in the summer of 2005 with producer Daniel Elmes and a close buddy Simon Kelly, who had a bank loan and a select group of musicians who would provide cheap or free sessions. Mangan unveiled the album at first, both online and at live shows. File Under: Music, a Vancouver-based independent record label, picked up the LP and re-released the album with new artwork and an extra track, "Ash Babe," the label was released in July 2007. ABC/Warner announced the record in Australia in March 2011.

Mangan's album Nice, Nice, Very Nice, March 2009 was released in Toronto by producer John Critchley, alongside collaborator John Critchley, and featured a number of other Canadian artists, including Veda Hille, Justin Rutledge, Mark Berube, Hannah Georgas, and Elliott Brood. The album name was inspired by a line from American novelist Kurt Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle, however musically Nice, Nice, Nice, Nice, Very Nice has been compared to Chad VanGaalen and Bon Iver. "Robots" and "Road Regrets," David Burke's second full-length song, as well as satellite radio stations like The Verge and CBC Radio 3, earned airplay on local Vancouver radio stations, as well as on satellite radio stations such as The Verge and CBC Radio 3.

Mangan was named "Artist of the Year" at the Verge Music Awards in September 2009. Arts & Crafts, a Toronto-based independent record label, was licensed and released in Nice, Nice, Very Nice, Very Nice in 2010 (via City Slang). The album was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Nice, Nice, Very Nice received three Western Canadian Music Awards for "Independence Album Of The Year," "Roots/Solo Album Of The Year," and "Songwriter Of The Year." The CBC Radio 3 BUCKY Awards voted "Robots" as the best song on the CBC Radio 3.

The 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Nice, Nice, Very Nice, was published by Dan Mangan and Arts & Crafts on November 15, 2019. The 2-LP vinyl set includes previously unreleased demos and b-sides. Mangan's essay about the album's making and its commercial success is included in the box.

Mangan began collaborating with musicians from Vancouver's experimental music scene in 2010 and 2011. Kenton Loewen (Mother Mother, Submission Hold, Gord Grdina Trio), bassist John Walsh (Brasstronaut), and guitarist Gord Grdina (Gord Grina) formed friendships with other members of the city's avant-garde free-jazz community. As the band started working on their third album, they began working and touring with a diverse group of musicians (Fond of Tigers, Destroyer), violinist Jesse Zubot (Fond of Tigers, Tanya Tagaq), pianist Jesse Zabot (Fond of Tigers, Jethro Lee, and cellist Peggy Lee) (Mary Margaret O'Hara, Wayne Horvitz, Veda Hille). Mangan commissioned Eyvind Kang (Bill Frisell, Beck, Laurie Anderson) in Seattle to write orchestral plans for the forthcoming recordings.

Producer Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Yukon Blonde), the band's short spurts at The Hive Creative Labs on tours and at Mangan's own home, "National Park Studios," was recorded over six months during the 2010-11 winter. Arts & Crafts first published it in North America in September, 2011; it was also released in Australia in the upcoming months by City Slang and ABC. The album received brisk critical acclaim around the world, and it marked the start of a new, more experimental period in Mangan's musical career.

Mangan was the subject of CBC documentary What Happens Next?, directed and produced by Brent Hodge and Jon Siddall in November 2011. Mangan appeared in the lead up to his sold-out appearance at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver.

Mangan was also nominated for Best Artist of the Year and Alternate Album of the Year for Oh Fortune's "Rows of Houses" directed by Jon Busby at the 2012 Juno Awards, and was also named for Best Artist of the Year and Video of the Year for the music video.

Oh Fortune was also a long-listed for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, as well as three Western Canadian Music Awards for "Rock Album of the Year," "Independence Album of the Year," and "Songwriter of the Year." The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards named "Rows of Houses" as the best song on record. Mangan has won six bucks to date, making him the first artist to win "Best Song" more than once.

Mangan and his band's debut in late 2013 in what would be his fourth LP, Club Meds, less focusing on recruited orchestral performances and more on core band contributions, was released in January 2015. (Arts & Crafts / Create/Control). The ensemble decided to publish the album under the moniker Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, emphasizing and finally identifying Grdina, Loewen, Walsh, Naylor, Carter, and Zubot's contributions throughout the process.

Club Meds was welcomed with a overwhelmingly positive feedback but not so popular one than Oh Fortune. The album received 4 stars from The Guardian, The Observer & Q, and 8/10 from Drowned In Sound & Uncut, resulting in a Metacritic score of 79. "Just 13 days into 2015, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith delivered a compelling early salvo in the year stakes," Alexis Petridis described the album as a must-hear record and guitarist." "Club Meds is singlehandedly proving that the LP style is not only alive but also worth fighting for," a Canadian blogger writes. It is evidence that a well-crafted record is more than just a collection of well-crafted songs. Club Meds is a unified whole, addressing some of the most important issues in our collective lives. It is not only the best album of 2015, but it is also one of the most emotionally moving albums of the last decade."

Unmake, which was released digitally on June 17, 2016, was a collection of four simple home recordings and the single "Race To The Bottom" starring drummer Loel Campbell (Wintersleep, Holy Fuck), which was produced by John Raham and released in Vancouver, BC. The five song EP features a recreation of Robyn's "Hang With Me" and "Forte" from Club Meds, as well as Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara, who appeared on "Kitsch" and "Forterruption," a B-side's classic.

Mangan published More or Less, his fifth full length book on Arts & Crafts and City Slang in the fall of 2018. Drew Brown (Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Blonde Redhead), with producer Simone Felice (Lumineers, Vance Joy, Jade Bird), were mixed and engineered by Ryan Hewitt (Lumineers, Vance Joy, Vance Joy).

Adam Feibel wrote for Exclaim!

More or Less is so intentionally soft, warm, cozy, and minimal that even Nice, Nice, Very Nice, "In stark contrast to Mangan's intricate, full-bodied arrangements, it makes even More or Less so pleasant, cozy, and minimal." "The sleeper hit here is "Lay Low," a song about taking time for yourself that, surprisingly enough, features little more than Mangan's own voice, though it's no more than a whisper. If it wasn't so soothing, it might have been chilling. And although "Troubled Mind" is undoubtable, it is also the outlier." Mangan's "Troubled Mind" Mangan said, "It's funny." It's pretty upbeat, but the lyrical content isn't exactly sunny, shiny, or lovey-dovey, so first, you never know how it will be received...it's really cool to see people gravitate towards it."

"witnessing birth" and, in some ways, rebirth, Mangan describes the album as a whole. It's about being alienated from a common identity and being acclimated to a new one. It's about raising children in a turbulent world. It's about unanswerable questions, kindness, and fear.

Mangan, "the man known as the nicest guy on the Vancouver music scene," performed two songs ("Troubled Mind" and "Just Fear") from the album on Jimmy Kimmel Live in April 2019.

In April 2022, he released "In Your Corner (for Scott Hutchison), a tribute to Frightened Rabbit bandleader Scott Hutchison who died in 2018. He continued to make "Fire Escape" a film in which actor Steven Ogg portrays a self-critical inner voice taunting and shaming Mangan.

Both songs were eventually released as part of his seventh studio album, Being Somewhere.

The band took a short break after finishing the tour cycle for Oh Fortune. During this period, Dan became a father and produced a soundtrack for Hector and the Search for Happiness starring Jesse Zubot (Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgrd, Jean Reno). Mangan and Zubot were nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in the category of Best Original Score. Dan was also nominated for Best Original Song for Wants in the same year, a song he performed on the film The Valley Below.

Mangan scored the songs for the Netflix animated film Hilda, as well as the CBC/AMC mini-series Unspeakable, between the Club Meds and More or Less album cycles.

Madic Records, an Arts & Crafts Productions imprint, has released LPs from Walrus and Astral Swans. Mangan has also recorded and produced works for Astral Swans, including two tracks on 2015's Good People Rock and 2018's Strange Prison.

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