Matta Gawa - bA

SKU Engine E 035
"Drums (Samuel T Lohman) & Guitar (Edward J Ricart) Improvised Astral Cartography. MATTA GAWA is an improvising drums+guitar duo hailing from Washington DC. Building with time and texture, their music is deeply connected to the methods and spirit of jazz, while retaining the electric backbone of creative rock music. Loosely translated, MATTA GAWA means river of moments- an apt description for their spontaneously composed flow of singing guitars, free-form drumming, howling feedback, sub-blasting bass, stagger-stepped odd-time signatures, polyrhythmic beatrock + guitar solos. Both founder members of DC’s New Atlantis Collective of musicians, drummer Sam Lohman has also worked with early NYHC legends Sheer Terror, the Radon Collective, Steve Mackay of the Stooges, and the Acid Mothers Temple. Guitarist Ed Ricart works with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Peter Brotzmann, Herb Robertson, Jason Ajemian, G. Calvin Weston, Steve Swell, and members of avant rock legends Fugazi."

"Imagine you are a guitar player, and you have amassed a collection of 40+ pedals. You have octave pedals, phase shifters, delays, phrase samplers, synthesizers, and even the classic wah wah pedal. What might you do with this armada of electronics? You might want a bass groove so you write a line on your guitar, drop it down an octave, sample it, loop it, and send it out for the drummer. You might want to vamp over that so you have some rhythm guitar. After you’ve built the rhythmic foundation, you might noodle, you might shred, you might drop another loop, or you might feedback. And this is Matta Gawa: cinematic chunks of post-hardcore improvised sound. As “ba” is an ancient Egyptian word for spirit, let’s just call Matta Gawa’s “ba” soul music."



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