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Anand Mahangoe is a potent, vibrant guitarist from Budapest (Hungary) who describes his style as instrumental, melodic hard rock, as demonstrated on his latest release, "Joy 4 Ever".  His guitars of choice include a Yamaha RGX 1212A (his own model) and a Carvin. Mahangoe has played guitar since 1982, and openly affirms his career goal, "Well, as I am working at a record company, I am working on getting and making connections with other partners everywhere in the world to get my CD to the buyers. So I am working on getting a record company for my music, and this is going quite well so far."
When prompted to reveal his favorite effect for the guitar, Mahangoe replied, "Only reverb will do," and offered his musicial goals, "Put the CD in the CD player, close your eyes and dream away from the red bananaworld till being far away the ones you love." He would love to someday study with Steve Vai ("Concerning harmony, scales, chords and more"), and is currently listening to Joe Satriani's new CD, Queen ("Freddy was such gifted singer, he knew how to express feelings!") and the Backstreet Boys ("Great songs"). His greatest satisfaction? "Eating chocolate ice cream in the hot summer! Sex," he states unambiguously.
 Mahangoe notes ongoing and upcoming projects thusly, "Working on second CD for the next year. I practice 1-2 hours a day becaue I have an 8 hour a day job. Before that I practiced 5 hours a day. Writing songs on the computer. Keeping my fingers loose."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Anand Mahangoe to guitarists such as Tony MacAlpine, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Pascal Allaigre, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, John Petrucci and others.
Mahangoe's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes several recording projects (Anand "A Man's Mind", Anand "Joy 4 Ever", Book Of Reflections "Chapter II: Unfold The Future", Sphere Of Souls "From The Ashes...").
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
