The Offspring Project Manteca

• 1 DRAGONS CURVE IN THE SKY 03:58
• 2 ALMAGOGO 03:19
• 3 ENDLESS FOLLIES 03:22
• 4 ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE 05:07
• 5 HIT RECORD 01:08
• 6 FUTURE CALLING 04:36
• 7 BLUE SHADOW 05:35
• 8 LOOK TO THE SUN 04:34
• 9 GENTLE GIANT 05:30
• 10 PIONEERS 04:35
• 11 A DRESS YOU CAN DANCE IN 04:31
• 12 ON A LARK 06:14
• Total Runtime 52:29

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Over the past four decades this nine-piece global-jazz artists collective has become a family, one of profound respect and enduring friendships. The offspring of Manteca’s musicians have grown up in this musical family... backstage, proudly wearing their “All Access” passes, raiding candy at the craft table, sound asleep on the studio couch while a mix played back at ear-blistering levels, or starry-eyed when the tour bus came to fetch Mom or Dad. In some cases, their parents had left the band long before they were born and they had only heard tales of Manteca’s exploits on the road, and likely not as bedtime stories!

Eleven offspring of current or former members have followed in their parent’s footsteps, becoming professional musicians and composers who have achieved remarkable success in their own right. Surely, the elders have influenced the youngers, and now, with The Offspring Project, the youngers make their mark, writing six of the twelve compositions on this disc, in addition to playing on the entire recording.

This instinctive, intergenerational musicality is unique, perceptible and marks an exuberant exchange between the generations.

In the past forty-three years of performing, recording and touring, the nine-member global/jazz artists collective Juno Award winners Manteca, founded in Toronto in 1979, has become a family, one of enduring respect and friendships. Bonds forged in the joy of playing together and the collective spirit of determination that brings voice to the often-marginalized dialect of jazz and global music. Manteca’s children have grown up in this musical family... backstage raiding candy bars at the craft table, sound asleep on the studio couch while a mix played back on 10… starry eyed when the tour bus came to collect or deposit mom or dad. Nine of the offspring of current or former members have become professional musicians and have achieved remarkable creative success and recognition in their own right. Surely, the elders have influenced the youngers, and now, the youngers make their mark. This instinctive, intergenerational musicality is unique, audible and sparked a creative two-way exchange between the generations.

“…a deliciously uncategorizable blend of cinematic instrumental jamband rock, with tinges of Balkan and Middle Eastern music

…one of the most intriguingly unique records to come over the transom here …” (New York Music Daily)

Manteca
The Offspring
Special guests:
James Ervin, trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
Lyne Tremblay, vocals (track 12)

Manteca
The Jazz World Orchestra Manteca has sold over 100,000 records around the world and shared stages with Miles Davis, Ella, Van Morrison and many others, from the Hollywood Bowl to the North Sea Jazz Festival. Manteca is one of Canada's best-known and original instrumental artists. The band's 11th recording Monday Night at the Mensa Disco will be released on September 17th.

Melodic, powerful and fresh, this 7-song studio recording written by band leaders Doug Wilde and Matt Zimbel is at once joyous and muscular. With melodies often helmed by instruments considered off the beaten path of jazz such as bass clarinet and alto flute, the tracks are under pinned by deep skin on skin grooves of hand drums and grounded by kit, acoustic piano and bass.

Recorded at Toronto's remarkable Revolution Recordings by 4-time Juno award winning engineer Jeff Wolpert the album sonics are larger than life.

The Mensa Disco is where the intellectuals gather to dance, it's where the time signatures are odd and so are the clients. It's where the doorman, (himself a PhD in the Advanced Behavioural Theory of Drunks) says, 'yeah, I can let you in but I'm going to have to see some IQ.'

In 34 years of playing and recording they've been called an institution. the legendary.jazz royalty.The reality is Manteca is new world jazz for the new world .a nine member artist collective based in Toronto that has created a unique and enduring highly original sound with building blocks from jazz, world, funk, folk and contemporary orchestral music.

"We are driven," says leader Matt Zimbel, "by an intense desire to see the thrill in our audience's eyes. With nine players on stage when we play an ensemble figure together there is a power and this kind of joyous impact surrounded by the silence between the notes that exhilarates us and in turn the audience. Show after show, it's the look in their eyes and the fact that we keep hearing people say the same thing after the show, 'wow, I wasn't expecting that!' Now that is remarkably motivating."

Manteca has been a finalist for the Juno Award for Best Original Jazz Album three times and won the Juno for best instrumental once. The band's extensive archives have been collected by the National Library of Canada and their recordings have been released around the world, with numerous releases in the Unites States, Germany, South Africa and Asia. Critics have consistently praised their appearances and recordings as "innovative, unique and exhilarating".

In 2007 after a hiatus, the band returned with their 9th album "Onward" which was nominated for two Juno Awards, one for original Jazz recording and one for engineering for the band's long time engineer, Jeff Wolpert. "Onward" marked a shift in direction as the band created a fresh voice by introducing bass clarinet, alto flute, trombone, string bass and a rhythmic direction based less in Latin percussion and more on what the three drummers call "the sonic bubble".

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