This trans-Atlantic trio brings together the extraordinary violin and viola playing of New Yorker Mat Maneri with the expansive piano of Liam Noble and the sensitive percussion of Mark Sanders.

Violin and viola player Mat Maneri is one of the most creative and original players in New York's downtown scene, combining a classicist attention to the details of bowing and tone, an awareness of the microtonal possibilities beyond conventional notation and the spontaneous verve and creativity of a true improviser. Over the years, he's recorded with many of the leading figures in jazz and improvised music, including Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Joelle Leandre, Craig Taborn, Joe Morris, William Parker and his father, microtonal pioneer Joe Maneri.

Liam Noble is one of Britain's most open-minded and imaginative jazz performers and composers, a consummate pianist whose work ranges from reinterpretations of Dave Brubeck to electronic song-cycles based on Japanese death poetry and inspired by Arto Lindsay and Aphex Twin to the free improvisation of Sleepthief (with Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey).

Mark Sanders has been acclaimed as “the most exciting, original and overwhelmingly powerful drummer alive” (Steve Reynolds, Jazz Corner) and his precise and propulsive drumming has graced projects with, to name but a few, Evan Parker, Jah Wobble, Broadcast, Agusti Fernandez, John Butcher, Roswell Rudd, and Otomo Yoshihide.

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