Matt Elliott

Matt Elliott

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The Songs Trilogy is over, A new chapter entitled 'The Broken Man' is about to open and is the most delicate of Elliott's albums to date. The angry noise has all but abated, making way for more  fragile melodies and a more subtle approach to intensity to immerse the listener. Ideally listened to in total darkness to discover the hope hidden deep within the guitars, voice, choirs, bells, ethereal trumpets, the howl of the dog beneath the skin, in the sincerity of the music. Inspired by the ghosts of European folk music, the voice often resigned but always expressive.

Always finding new ways of working,  Elliott collaborated with Katia Labeque who interpreted an improvisation of his that became the backbone of one of the central epic pieces on this album 'If Anyone Ever Tells Me That it is Better to Have Loved and Lost Than to Have Never Loved At All I Will Stab Them in the Face'. 'Dust Flesh and Bones', another of the epic pieces on this album, is perhaps Elliott's most beautiful and moving work to date, simple in it's form but emotionally profound.  'The Pain that's Yet to Come' hints at a new almost psychedelic era to come.

'The Broken Man' is an album to be discovered gradually over many listens, and with each one a new depth is surrendered until one can appreciate the panorama in it's entirety. Each track is an invitation to explore one mans analysis of his own descent reflecting the frustrations and sadness that touch us all at some point. 

Mixed by Yann Tiersen this album is a bridge between the more  acoustic work of 'Songs' and the more electronic, ethereal work of Third Eye Foundation. It is finely balanced in the centre of Matt's musical universe

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TO COME  :

10-05-2013 • Brest • (FR), La Carène w/ Mendelson

11-05-2013 • Brest • (FR), Home show

PAST GIGS : 

2013 :

22-01-2013 • Genova • (IT), Spazio Targa

23-01-2013 • Padova • (IT), La Mela di Newton

24-01-2013 • Gambettola (FC) • (IT), Tressessanta

25-01-2013 • Jesi (ANCONA) • (IT), TNT club

26-01-2013 • Salerno • (IT), Mumble Rumble

27-01-2013 • Modena • (IT), Happen Club

28-01-2013 • Milano • (IT), Teatro Martinitt

2012 :

20.01 Carpi (Mo) // Mattatoio

21.01  Valeggio sul Mincio (Vr) // Villa Zamboni

22.01  Forlì // Diagonal

23.01  Santarcangelo di Romagna (Rn) // live in the grotto

24.01  Torino // Blah Blah

25.01  Milano // Magnolia

27-01 • Nantes • Le Stakhanov w/ T.Beach

28-01 • Tours • le Temps Machine w/ Ramona Cordova

29-01 • St Ouen • 'Festival Mofo' , Mains d'Oeuvres

30-01 • Lille • la Péniche

02-02 • Castellon (sp) • Festival 'Tanned Tin'

08-02 • Pau • La Centrifugeuse

09-02 • Bayonne • Le Musée Basque

10-02 • Bordeaux • I-Boat

11-02 • Tulle • le Molière

16-02 • Besançon • La Cour des Miracles

17-02 • Grenoble • La Bobine *

18-02 • Arles • l'Église des frères Prêcheurs* /// ANNULE

19-02 • Marseille • l'Embobineuse*

23-02 • Chabeuil (26) • Festival 'Rencontres entre les Mondes # 8' Centre Culturel*

24-02 • Annecy • Festival 'Hors Pistes', salle Pierre Lamy w/ Mesparrow

08 Mar 2012 • DE • Dresden Thalia Kino

09 Mar 2012 • DE • Potsdam Hans Otto Theater

10 Mar 2012 • DE • Leipzig Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst

11 Mar 2012 • DE • Bamberg Morph Club

13 Mar 2012 • DE • Hildesheim Haus der Braut

14 Mar 2012 • DE • Berlin Kater Holzig w/ Zun Zun Egui

15 Mar 2012 • DE • Köln King Georg

16 Mar 2012 • DE • Esslingen Komma

17 Mar 2012 • DE • Mannheim Blau

22-03 • Chalon sur Saône • la Péniche 

23-03 • Vagney • L'Estaminet

24-03 • Lyon • Marché Gare w/ Dark Dark Dark

25-03 • Maubec (84) • La Gare de Coustellet w/ Dark Dark Dark

04-04 • Nancy • 'Ici d'Ailleurs Festival', l'autre Canal 

05-04 • Allonnes • 'Ici d'Ailleurs Festival', la Péniche 

06-04 • St Nazaire • le Vip

11-04 • Strasbourg • Festival des Artefacts à la Laiterie w/ mansfield.tya, Chapelier Fou

19-04 • Paris • Le Café de la Danse

21-04 • Toulon • 'Festival Faveurs de Printemps'

25-04 • Lausanne (ch) • 'Festival Impetus', le Bourg w/ Michael Gira

17-05 • Pisa • ITALIE • Stazione Leopolda 

18-05 • Bari • ITALIE • Socrate Occupato

19-05 • Cupertino (Lecce) • ITALIE • Arci Rubyk 

21-05 • Avellino • ITALIE • Godot

22-05 • Roma • ITALIE • Lanificio 159 

23-05 • Faenza • ITALIE • Clandestino 

26-05 • Dijon • Humanist Festival, le Consortium

27-05 • Vitoria • ESPAGNE • Ibu Hots

28-05 • Zamora • ESPAGNE • Sala Berlín

30-05 • Bragança • PORTUGAL • Museo do Abade de Baçal

31-05 • Aveiro • PORTUGAL • Mercado Negro

1-06 • Lisboa • PORTUGAL • Ritz Clube

2-06 • Leiria • PORTUGAL • Beat Club – Fade In Festival

3-06 • Porto • PORTUGAL • Serralves em Festa/Fundação Serralves

4-06 • Pontevedra • ESPAGNE • Bar Labranza

6-06 • Zaragoza • ESPAGNE • La Lata de Bombillas

7-06 • Gijón • ESPAGNE • Casino

8-06 • Madrid • ESPAGNE • Clamores

9-06 • Vic • ESPAGNE • Jazz Cava

10-06 • Barcelona • ESPAGNE • La 2

12-06 • Manresa • ESPAGNE • El Vermell

14-06 • Granada • ESPAGNE • Planta Baja

28-06 • Metz • Les Trinitaires 

17-08 • Nancy • L'Auditorium de la Pépinière

15-09 • Tilburg • HOLLANDE • Incubate Festival 

09-11 • Montbéliard • Le Moloco


2011:


Le 30 Septembre 2011 au Point Ephémère / PARIS

Le 1er Octobre à la Péniche du pianiste / LILLE

Du 14 au 25 Octobre :  Grèce

Le 16 Octobre au Mylos Club Thessaloniki / GRECE

Le 23 Octobre au Six D.O.G.S. à Athènes / GRECE

Le 19 Novembre : Tenerife (tbc) / ILES CANARIES

Le 2 Décembre : Barcelona / ESPAGNE

24.03. PARIS (FR) @ Café de la Danse

26.03. VENDENHEIM (FR) @ Médiathèque Tomi Ungerer

30.03. ZÜRICH (CH) @ Cabaret Voltaire

01.04. MONTELLANO (ES) @ Festival El Alternador

02.04. PORTO (PT) @ O Meu Mercedes

03.04. BRAGANÇA (PT) @ Museo do Abade de Baçal

04.04. ZAMORA (ES) @ Sala Berlín

07.04. MURCIA (ES) @ Sala Musik

19.05. BRUSSELS (BE) @ Festival Les Nuits Botanique

22.05. OSAKA (JP) @ Janus

26.05. NAGOYA (JP) @ Tokuzo

28.05. TOKYO (JP) @ O-nest

Press

Press quotes

Howling songs ends the trilogy (Drinking songs and falling songs) with a perfect achievement. The album describes a very personal musical that shows the talent of the artist'' (Sortir Ici - Lorient)

''Falling songs remains the masterwork of Matt Elliott. In fact before him, such a deep musical background had never been offered and developed (…) Howling songs tends towards the same direction'' (culturopoing)

''Howling songs ended the trilogy started in 2005 with Drinking songs then Failing songs, an unique adventure (M-La-Music)

''Howling songs the last part of the trilogy released by Ici D'Ailleurs concludes the homeric metamorphosis where the artist goes back to his Slavic origins'' (Nuke)

''Enjoying to play with our senses and emotions, Howling songs assures the increase in power of the author whose personality and writing skills continue to fine down and to grow up according to releases'' (Noise)

''This sentimental and strange guy used to trample on norms to create his own musical world in which he composes tremendous songs, full of anxiety and howling'' (Le petit bulletin)

''The listening of the album “Howling songs” will not leave you neither cold nor emotionless'' (Musiq)

''Matt Elliott who first started out in the electro music is an author, composer, arranger and real performer. In one piece he is able to mix melancholy and fury as well as melancholy and sound destruction'' (Not for tourists)

''The liberated and heart renting songs of the Album “Howling songs” do not take into consideration the commercial aspect and the radio adaptability. Compositions grow depending on the inspiration'' (Foutraque)

''Matt Elliott's music find its essential purpose in being both here as elsewhere'' (Indiepoprock)

Biography

To download "The Broken Man" biography, please click here.

Press review

To download "Failing Songs" press review please click here.

To download "Howling Songs" press review please click here.

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