Description
Michael Manring, Sándor Szabó Duo – Inner Smile / Acoustic Music Records Audio CD 2009 / 319.1425.2
UPC 4013429114254
Guitarist Sándor Szabó studied at the Budapest Conservatory, bassist Michael Manring went to the Boston Berklee College of Music.
Szabó earned respect and recognition thanks to his collaborations with guitarists like Gilbert Isbin, Véronique Gillet and Andreas Georgious, Manring’s star began shining during his work with the acoustic guitar visionary Michael Hedges. Since 2005, the Californian and Hungarian have entertained a convivial creative partnership that has now engendered “Inner Smile”, Manring’s highly expressive performance on the fretless bass forms the perfect backdrop and harmonic complement to the composed chord sequences of Szabó’s baritone guitar. At the same time, the two virtuosos leave enough space for each other to go off on some outstanding solo excursions. With their perfectly individual stylistic mix of atmospheric New Age music, contemporary jazz and experimental music, their complex performance is always in the service of an album that will keep drawing a smile from the listener over and over again.
| Label: | Acoustic Music Records – 319.1425.2 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Germany |
| Released: |
2009 |
| Genre: | Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Ballad For Lance | 3:04 | |
| 2 | Wizard's Dance | 4:12 | |
| 3 | Terrazzo | 4:26 | |
| 4 | Dark Birds On The Grey Sky |
3:12 | |
| 5 | Maqam From Ordos | 5:53 | |
| 6 | Swingy | 3:54 | |
| 7 | A Tale From Somewhere | 6:05 | |
| 8 | Fugue | 3:54 | |
| 9 | Maqam From Ataisz | 4:12 | |
| 10 | Terrazzo II | 5:51 | |
| 11 | Waltz | 2:49 | |
| 12 | Snapshot | 1:36 | |
| 13 | Adria | 4:32 | |
| 14 | East European Landscape | 5:47 |
- Baritone Guitar [6-String Baritone Guitar], Baritone Guitar [12-String Baritone Guitar], Twelve-String Guitar [12-String Baritone Guitar], Acoustic Guitar [6-String Nylon Guitar], Cobza [24-String Double Neck Koboz], Mixed By, Mastered By, Composed By – Sándor Szabó
- Fretless Bass [Fretless Bass Guitar], Bass Guitar [Fretless Bass Guitar], Composed By – Michael Manring
6-string nylon string guitar
24-string double neck oud
Michael Manring……fretless bass guitar
credits
Producer: Peter Finger
Recorded in the Tandem Records Studio in Vác/Hungary on 4th December 2008.
Mixed and mastered by Sándor Szabó
The mix was done with the Bricasti M7 Space Simulator
Michael Manring endorses ZON basses and MarkBass amps, D’Addario strings, and the E-Bow.
Sándor Szabó endorses John Pearse strings, George Ziatas nylon string guitars
Special thanks: Sándor would like to thank Tihamér Romanek for the 24-string double neck oud, Mary Faith for the John Pearse Strings, the Bricasti Design for the fantastic M7, George Ziatas for the Ziata nylon string guitar, Albert and Mueller and Lance McCollum(†) for the 12 string baritone guitars, and Katalin Németh for the editing.
