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Mat Maneri Trio

Mat Maneri Trio: Fifty-one Sorrows

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 2000

Fifty-one Sorrows is quite aptly named, for it features Mat Maneri at his most morose. The title track is a long, searching piece that has something to do, according to the liner notes, with “the extreme sorrow within joy." Maneri's playing expresses this profundity well, for even at its most sorrowful on this disc there is ...

So What?

By Mat Maneri Trio

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 1999

Mat Maneri Trio: So What?

by Robert Spencer
September 1, 1999

Mat Maneri, the world's challenging microtonal electric violinist, explains that he once studied Baroque violin, in which the bowing style creates an “almost horn like sound." He goes on to explain that “I'm not trying to get a horn sound now, but I am trying to get horn phrasing." Certainly there are moments on So What? ...