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Hardcore Chamber Music

by Manlio Maresca

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Craving Rag 03:50
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Domosinth 05:04
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Authing Out 02:46
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Speedball 04:46
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Nodo in Gola 08:05
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Isc 06:12
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Glorification of errors is the basis for Manlio Maresca’s new album. Hardcore Chamber Music, out October 7 on Auand Records, acclaims refined music wrongness. The Italian guitar player leads Manual for Errors, a project featuring Francesco Lento (trumpet), Daniele Tittarelli (alto sax), Roberto Tarenzi (piano), Matteo Bortone (double bass), and Enrico Morello (drums). The composition area he works in lets the margin of error be the foundation of a revolutionary creative discovery. Extemporary music inspirations rule an accurate research of a “sound mistake” within a well-defined jazz structure.

Maresca’s album comes from a preconceived dimension, which is then altered by an element of randomness. Right in the middle is composition: a series of rules and conventions – as Maresca says – that however doesn’t prevent unpredictable chances to happen in such “forbidden” areas. The compositional picture tends to change when new, immaculate sound spaces open up in an unusual and extreme music fabric. Having experienced the 90s as a teenager, he was highly influenced by Primus, Shellac, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Kraftwerk. Such bands, among others, revolutionized the music scene at that time. Their music is mainly made up of what is generally considered as waste: dissonance emancipates, feedbacks and ground noise become part of the arrangement, which connects them to the likes of Monk, Jaki Byard and the 60s-Miles Davis.

The chromatic underlayer in Hardcore Chamber Music is “waste”: dissonances have their raison d'être while chamber music foul play, along with music stains and ground noises, become parts of the original arrangement. The title is inspired by the nature of these compositions. When the tracks unfold, an invisible and nonsensical plot takes us to sounds with no resolution. As in an apparently disharmonic path, Maresca’s “dirty” music balance finds its spot in atonality and polyrhythms.

Nevertheless, when the band members play the leader’s original compositions, none of them forgets the jazz tradition embedded in their own sensibility. ‘Cravin Rag’ recalls the primordial jazz of the 20s, thus taking the music research to the extreme.. On the other hand, ‘Esercizi di memoria’ makes room for the artist’s ability to memorize a not-so-comfortable rhythmic and harmonic ground.

Maresca’s synthesis is defined within an aesthetic and musical consciousness made up of elements in motion: their collisions cause bewilderment at first, immediately followed by curiosity.

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released November 9, 2016

Francesco Lento - trumpet
Daniele Tittarelli - alto sax
Manlio Maresca - guitar
Roberto Tarenzi - piano
Matteo Bortone - double bass
Enrico Morello - drums

All compositions by Manlio Maresca, published by Jazz Engine

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