Michael Manring

Michael Manring is a Bassiste, raises Jaco Pastorius, it knew to develop several techniques and to adapt them. He is also type-setter.

Biography

Initially, he especially collaborated with musicians resulting from the scene New Age like Michael Hedges (Low Duet/Guitar). In Italy, it meets the acoustic guitarist Paolo Giordano with which it will make two discs. It goes still today to Italy for series in concerts with this guitarist out-standards.

Then, he will play with musicians coming more scene metal , like Alex Skolnick (ex-guitarist of Testament), Steve Morse, Tim " Herb" Alexander (ex-beater of Primus). The meeting with these musicians enabled him to make the album Thönk which is a mixture of heavy metal and of Jazz Fusion and to take part in Skol-Patrol homage Funky Metal to the cinematographic Bands its of the Années 1970.

In company of Alex Skolnick and Tim " Herb" Alexander, they will found the Trio Jazz Fusion Attention Deficit, which for the moment made only two albums. It also takes part in the homage to Miles Davis, Yo Miles! imagined by Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith. They are compositions of Miles Davis of the Seventies.

It made two discs Jazz Fusion with Scott McGill and Steve Stevens, which is all two the very dark ones and with very heavy rates/rhythms. It is directed towards a new project, mixes Jazz and of Classique with Larry Kassin (flute) and Tom Darter (piano).

Today, Michael Manring has just left its 6th album Soliloquy devoted entirely to low, since it is a disc solo. It is under contract and is endorsé by Zon Basses, with which it takes part in the manufacture of the model " Hyperbass" model signature of Michael, with a system of instantaneous tuning.

Selective discography

  • 1986 Unusual Weather

  • 1989 Toward the Center off the Night
  • 1991 Drastic Measures
  • 1994 Thönk
  • 1998 The Book off Flame
  • 2005 Soliloquy

With Attention Deficit :

  • 1998 Attention Deficit
  • 2001 Idiotic The KIng

With Scott McGill and Steve Stevens:

  • 2001 Addition By Substraction
  • 2003 Controlled By Radar

With Yo Miles! :

With Kassin and Darter:

With David Cullen:

With Sadhappy :

  • 1998 Good Day Bad Dream
  • 2005 Outerspaces

External bonds

  • manthing.com

  • noibassisti.it
  • mkdmusic.com
  • sadhappy.com

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