Manlio Maresca — guitar

Manlio Maresca, born in 1977 near Rome, founded the band Neo in 2001 and later Squartet, touring throughout Europe with both. In 2010 he toured the United States with Neo, recording the album "Neoclassico" at Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago with sound engineer Steve Albini (Shellac, Pixies, Nirvana). He collaborated with Steve Piccolo in 2006, and with Joe Lally from 2008 to 2015. In 2012 he founded the trio Andymusic, which first accompanied poet and actor Remo Remotti and in 2016 performed at the Torino Jazz Fringe Festival, Fano Jazz by the Sea, and Urbino Jazz Festival, among others. In 2013 he joined Massimo Nunzi's Orchestra Operaia, collaborating with guests including Gabriele Coen, Fabrizio Bosso, Javier Girotto, Niccolò Fabi, Paolo Fresu, and Greg Hutchinson. A glorification of error sits at the heart of his album "Hardcore Chamber Music" (2016, Auand Records) with the quintet Manual For Errors. In 2017/18 Manlio moved to Berlin and began collaborating with musicians from the local scene, including Igor Spallati, Ugo Alunni, Eldar Tsalikov, and Mikaele Pellegrino, developing his solo project "Manual for Errors Panic Solo." In 2019 he performed with James Chance and the Contortions and toured Europe.

Eldar Tsalikov — alto sax

Eldar Tsalikov (b. 1993 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia) grew up in a musical family and began learning saxophone at age eight at the Kim Nazaretov Children's Jazz School. In 2011 he moved to Berlin, beginning his studies at the Jazz Institut Berlin under Peter Weniger, Greg Cohen, and John Hollenbeck, adding clarinet as a second instrument; he graduated with a master's in arranging and composition in 2018. Tsalikov has won several international competitions, including the 4th International Jazz Competition in St. Petersburg, the International Jazz Festival of Ukraine in Kyiv, and the 8th International Jazz Competition in Odesa, as well as the JIB Jazz Prize in 2014. He has worked with musicians including Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Laurie Anderson, Elias Stemeseder, and Anna Webber, and also leads his own gypsy swing group, "Eldar Tsalikov FO'tet."

Igor Spallati — double bass

Igor Spallati (b. 16 August 1985) grew up in Perugia and began his musical education on the clarinet, before discovering electric bass and eventually the double bass. At 19 he deepened his classical double bass studies under Silvio Bruni (2005–2009) and completed his classical training as a private student at the Istituto Musicale "Briccialdi" in Terni, before leaving a program at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona under Franco Petracchi to be accepted at the Jazz Institut Berlin in 2010. There he studied with Greg Cohen, John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and David Friedman, graduating in 2014. In 2011 he became the first-ever winner of the Savoy Award of Excellence. He has worked with major figures including Joe Chambers, Billy Hart, Nasheet Waits, Jorge Rossy, Fred Hersch, Ambrose Akinmusire, Pietro Tonolo, Gabriele Mirabassi, Dado Moroni, and Joe Hisaishi, and is a member of the Rosen Quintett.

Ugo Alunni — drums

Ugo Alunni is a drummer from Perugia, Italy. He attended the Conservatorio di Musica "Francesco Morlacchi" in Perugia (2000–2004), after which he moved to New York for further studies at the Collective School of Music (2005–2006). He has been living in Berlin since 2010, where he studied at the Jazz Institut Berlin under John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Greg Cohen, and David Friedman, graduating in 2016. He has played with musicians including Rossano Emili, the Perugia Jazz Orchestra, Pietro Tonolo, Joe Chambers, Dan Kinzelman, Alessandro Lanzoni, Elias Stemeseder, Phil Donkin, Uli Kempendorff, and Julia Hülsmann.