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So here we are. This is the second contribution of Matteus to Orila after the 3” split with No Clear Mind (orl01). A small diamond recorded between Greece and Iceland. Throat starts to vibrate
Matteus’ project “Ugly Doll’s Stories” is an ode to non-communication between human beings and the way people are taken advantage by others. Imagine yourself entering a toy shop shop and every doll has its own story to tell about how it got there or how it ended up there. The buying of a doll and the few minutes in the shop are transformed into a long journey with voices and stories ending up into a narration from each doll’s point of view dealing with matters such as love, emotional breakdowns, separation, solitude and happiness. “Maybe for all these reasons it took me so long to finish this record… The need to fully understand these stories and the roles that those characters were playing inside my head. This need pushed me to search for solutions and possibilities all the way to Iceland. Stuck in a church Northwest of Iceland for quite some time, actually helped to capture all these voices that i was hearing. This record is the Morse signal that i tried to fully decode.”
Special thanks to Vincent Moon, Thomas Rabillon & Orestis Plakias for live assistance on temporary Athens
Who is Matteus
Matteus was born in Athens, 1982. He started playing the piano at the age of 5 then started to experiment with analogue keyboards equipments and the harpsichord. At the age of 10 the first record he bought was Laurie Anderson’s “Big Science” which later on was proved a big influence sonically and visually. Matteus early works range from avant-garde vocal experimentations to noise / ambient sounds. His first full length work “Silent Radiowaves” was first presented live at the Athens Small Music Theatre in 2005. His next project was a series of songs entitled “Waiting for the Sunset to Drown” ; a collection of songs written for piano and voice. After a series of live performances, in the summer of 2008, Matteus started working on the Ugly Doll’s Stories project. Ugly Doll’s Stories was finished a few months ago and was recorded between Athens and Hvammstangi, Iceland.
“My mission is to make the listener think. I know that i don’t make music that someone can listen to a club or on the radio. For me, everything lies between travelling and discovering; travelling into the darkest places of your mind or places you have never been before. Maybe because you were afraid until now, or maybe you never knew that those places existed, either out there, either into your own, very personal microcosm. For me , this is the zero point that my throat starts to vibrate…” The sound of this work is based on electronics while pianos, harpsichord, marimba and the theremin create a dark, retro, ambient atmosphere
Links:
www.myspace.com/matteusx
www.lastfm/music/matteus
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Details on the release
Eleven tracks / Total: 45:33 / Fifty copies
Forged copper plates / Industrial bronzed screws / Black cardbord envelopes
Black vinyl Cd-r / 300gram illustration hard printing paper
Ugly doll’s stories costs 20euros worldwide, order one using paypal here
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