GT: What is it about guitar instrumentals that appeals to you?
MM: I like that you have much more freedom to explore the instrument compared to a more traditional song context. I recorded most of my album in a trio setting, and sometimes you can’t just play rhythm or solo parts, you have to come up with chord melodies, different techniques, or unorthodox sounds that you will never use on a song, so that’s why it's such a fun process to me.
GT: What can an instrumental provide a listener that a vocal song can’t?
I don’t really know if there is something that an instrumental can do that a vocal can’t, but sometimes I feel that in some vocal
