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Mantler is a pop project with shadings of R&B, melodrama, mix tapes, shopping malls, experimental films, Herman Melville, and eternal hope in the face of everyday despair. It’s about trying to scale the heights of your heroes.”

Mantler (aka Chris A. Cummings) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1969. As a young child he wrote pop songs on the piano, which were thoughtfully preserved by his parents on cassette. He subsequently studied classical piano for 14 years but changed his creative focus from music to film writing and production.

During and after film school he became an avid record collector and DJ specializing in Rare Groove and Soul Jazz. In 1994 he realized a lifelong dream to play a vintage electric piano, when a chance meeting with a fellow record collector resulted in his rehearsing with an instrumental groove-oriented band in Mississauga, Ontario. Following its break-up in 1995, he resolved to keep going by himself, and started writing and recording songs as Mantler, a name he felt reflected both the seriousness and the humour of what he was recording.

I n 1997 two Mantler songs were included on the first compilation by Toronto dance label Play Records. in 2000, Mantler’s first full-length CD DOIN’ IT ALL was released on independent US jazz label Le Systeme. SADISFACTION has been Mantler’s first release on Tomlab and has helped to introduce him to a wider audience: a very ambitious album that combines the seventies soul of Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Willie Mitchell with the sixties pop of Love, The Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield, and an attempt to leave behind the ‘retro’ tag in favour of a forward-looking vision.
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  • SimonePerrota

    oh so underappreciated indeed...

    28 Jul 2012 Reply

  • thrillseeker01

    so so good,how is Mantler not more well known? I saw him supporting Black Carrot in Leicester,UK.Absolutely brilliant songs and a Madonna cover that gave meaning to a song I had heard many times but never listened to.Actually,a genius.

    5 May 2012 Reply

  • nabootheenigma

    Sweet Body Mantler, oh your body is so sweet. I want to touch your sweet body, ohi love you, Sweet Body Mantler.

    29 Oct 2011 Reply

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    1 Aug 2010 Reply

  • kugayama

    Landau sounds like a Donald Fagen B-Side compilation. Which is a good thing!

    12 Oct 2009 Reply

  • malari

    "I´ve been destroyed" really hits me, like it very much

    26 Sep 2008 Reply

  • jpdhch

    Hey, I saw Mantler with Polmo Polpo (and both joined in on each others sets), he was pretty good, even signed my vinyl!

    19 May 2007 Reply

  • ZpoonZ

    i checked out some mantler because he's playing support at a polmo polpo gig i'm going to. (i wanted to know whether or not to turn up for the support) mantler is some of the worst shit i've heard in a long time, and i'll definitely be avoiding support at this gig.

    10 May 2007 Reply

  • briarsequinox

    mantler needs more listeners than this.

    24 Jan 2007 Reply

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