Scott Matthew

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风格: #另类唱作人　#室内流行
地区: Australia 澳大利亚

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Scott Matthew出生于澳大利亚的昆士兰，开始走自己音乐生涯后，Scott Matthew来到了美国纽约，并且居住在布鲁克林。作为了一位独立艺人，Scott Matthew有着多种途径来抒发自己的才华。无论是编曲还是填词，都有着出十分优秀的表现。首先，Scott Matthew做为独立乐队Elva Snow的成员，乐器的熟练运用，写的一手好歌，在其中占着重要位置。其次，对于Scott Matthew来说比较重要的一项音乐部分，做电影配乐。《Scott Matthew》首张专辑，Scott Matthew也是最大限度将自己所能运用的乐器全部搬上，一悲到底的大提琴，小提琴，手风琴。贯穿所有歌曲的钢琴，点缀所用的圆号，还有不常用的五弦琴，木吉他，低音吉他，键盘等这些就更不用说了。虽然，Scott Matthew虽然能够请好友来帮自己把这些乐器加入专辑中，但是整张专辑并不像后摇，器乐演奏那样有着复杂丰富的旋律，大量的器乐演奏是找不到的。可以看的出大多乐器都是用来营造Sadcore气氛，从整张专辑中你是无法找到欢快的感觉，Scott Matthew的嗓音比较低沉，延缓。“Prescription”是里面旋律感觉最高兴，快乐的歌曲，不过当Scott Matthew的演唱出现后，歌曲的欢喜度立刻降了一个层次，又给我们带来了喜中带悲的感情。伤感这个感情其实Scott Matthew从一开始就通过专辑封面传达给了我们。这样的感觉让我们几乎无法想象Scott Matthew最初在大学毕业后组建了一只PUNK摇滚乐队的事实，最终还是放弃这样的选择。Scott Matthew所追求的真理，用音乐来表达一种美丽的悲伤，脚踏实地开始打拼的Scott Matthew，谦虚的性格与实质性的歌唱，用音乐传达出的感情被人们所接受。Scott Matthew常常自称自己是一个“安静的噪音制造者”。让我们看这句话暴露了什么？无疑是他对自己音乐的理解，一位成熟的艺术家，有着他在舞台上面的故事与感动。

Scott Matthew is one of the very few musicians who—well, how may we say this—strips with his music, who dissects himself to reveal his very innards with great parsimony.

His voice cries without whining. His songs accuse without soliciting pity. Scott Matthew’s music has truth and exigency. And he forms this into songs that are purely magnetic, that expose an honest beauty and sorrow, allowing listeners to take and feel part of the experience.

Scott Matthew was born in Queensland, Australia. He played in several short-lived bands, broke off his studies at university and moved to Sydney where founded the punk-rock band Nicotine. At that time he also started staging solo with an acoustic set where he discovered his passion for ballades. In 1997, on the search for new horizons, he followed a good friend to Brooklyn, New York.

In New York, in 2002, Scott Matthew collaborated with former Morrissey drummer Spencer Cobrin and the two of them released an E.P. under the name Elva Snow, whereby Scott delivered lyrics and vocals.

One of Scott Matthew’s early successes came with the soundtracks &Lithium Flower& and &Beauty Is Within Us& for the Japanese animation-serial Ghost in the Shell, as well as with the title song “Is It Real?”, which was also composed by Yoko Kanno for the animation-serial Cowboy Bebop.

So far Scott has won the most attention through his work on the John Cameron Mitchell (of Hedwig & the Angry Inch) film Shortbus (2006). Scott wrote the theme song, “In the End,” (staged during the film in a long version by Tony-nominated performer Justin Bond), in addition to the songs &Little Bird,& &Surgery& and &Upside Down& performed in the film by Scott and featured on the soundtrack. For his debut album, in addition to seven original tracks, Scott along with his musicians arranged and recorded new versions of the songs used in Shortbus.

Scott Matthew describes himself as a &quiet noise-maker&. And in our opinion this statement betrays nothing about his music. Instead, it tends to explicate how he sees himself as a musician and how he could be understood as a person.

Scott Matthew is a remarkably gifted singer/songwriter. His songs are easy and unfussy. Together with his producer Mike Skinner (not of The Streets) and his very talented musicians on the album he arranges the instruments and stylistic devices with such a lightness and elegance, it seems as though the songs are falling accidentally through space and time. Classical string arrangements in &Ballad Dear,& &Habit& and &Abandoned& are juxtaposed with minimalist ensembles like &Little Bird& and &Upside Down& where a ukulele supports Scott Matthew’s exceptional, soulful voice. The intensity of his singing is tangible. And his humble yet striking stage presence never fails to underline the accessibility of his music.

Whoever has experienced Scott live on stage is oddly touched, perhaps even confused. His presence underlines the disarming. Countless live gigs in clubs, galleries and in sometimes very bizarre and wondrous venues Scott has become a mature artist who is able to give an ease to the evening with two or three words between the songs.

His music is like he is as a person. He`s not interested at all in what other people construe into his appearance. Scott is as hip as only a musician from Brooklyn can be, down to earth and unpretentious as expected from an Australian. Is his beard is a political statement or just a trend? Is his golden bracelet telling a long story or is it just a accidentally accessory - Scott Matthew is not calculated. He touches people. A quiet noise maker!

Scott Matthew

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