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Artist
Matteus
12+ albums
experimentalalternativeAvant-GardeGreekminimalist
about
Matteus was born in Athens, GR in 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 soundscapes. His first full length work “Silent Radiowaves” was first presented live at the Athens Small Music Theatre in 2005, after finishing a collaboration with Stina Nordenstam (SWE) on a scrapbook of texts and photography for her 2004 album "The World Is Saved". “Silent Radiowaves” was a collection of songs dealing with matters such as war, surveillance, alien life forms, science and surrealism accompanied by a visual installation for each. During the following years, Matteus started the “Waiting for the Sunset to Drown” tour; a collection of songs written for piano and voice, specially designed only to be performed live in the most unusual places (forests, beaches, a cloister and abandoned buildings). 2008 proved out to be a productive year after a series of live performances, Matteus started working on his next project “Ugly Doll’s Stories” 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 buyi
