Born in December 2002, the ensemble won the official selection to represent Italy at the "XI Biennial of the Young Artists of the Europe and Mediterranean", which took place in Athens, June 2003, obtaining an immediate international recognition. They are deeply involved with their intense concert activity and they are often invited both to Italian and European jazz meetings and to contemporary and ethnic music festivals, as well.
The main trait of this band, even though it is basically marked by a jazz matrix, is represented by the coexistence of Indian traditional instruments (tablas, Tibetan bells, overtone singing), of the European (piano, bass clarinet, tenor sax and soprano, flutes), and Mediterranean ones (Greek bouzouki, the Calabrian hand-drum), together with synthesizers, loop stations and hi-tech instruments, as well. In Mahanada's we also find a variety in composition: from entirely written compositions to the use of collective improvisation, as well as other art forms (collaborations with video-makers, directors, writers, painters).

New CD

Mannahatta
Splasc(H) Records (2008)

They composed the music for the multimedia project of Orione Antonello Morgana (with David Coco), directed by Giovanni Boncoddo and commissioned by the University of Messina.  They, also, collaborate with the Lithuanian Chorus, Auksodis, for the interaction of the old baltic songs, sponsored by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Klaipeda.
In 2004 Mahanada published for Ethnoworld London-Milan label a cd named [uno] .
At the end of 2005 has published “Taranta’s Circles” for Splasc(H) Records jazz label.
Taranta’s Circles is a new project about dances of South Italy like “tarantella”or “pizzica”, contemporary jazz and collective improvisations.
Mahanada has been invited in New York, in April 2006, to present this project at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (New York University).