Mat Maneri

DIGIPACK EDITION

"For Sounding Tears", his first release under his own name (not as co-leader or collaborator) in 12 years, Maneri has enlisted legendary British saxophonist Evan Parker, one of European avant-garde’s leading voices for the past four decades, alongside his long-standing collaborator, Romanian expat, pianist Lucian Ban.

The improvisations conjured by these improvisers bespeak a music of the new millennium – tender and lyrical while also angular, gritty and suspenseful. Reflecting on "Sounding Tears" Maneri says: “Music begins before music. As an improviser the first note I play sets in motion the whole world. As a trio, where does musical intimacy come from? Is it improvisation, is it chamber music? Is it jazz? The music on this album, the experience, empathy and the shared history that Evan and Lucian bring to "Sounding Tears", is our answer to those questions.”

PERSONNEL:

MAT MANERI, viola
EVAN PARKER, soprano and tenor sax
LUCIAN BAN, piano

Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey, September 21st, 2014.

TRACKS:

01. Blue Light
02. Da Da Da
03. The rule Of twelves
04. Blessed
05. This!
06. Sounding
07. Polaris
08. Scilence
09. Paralex
10. Hymn.