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Disinterested is a project that grew out of the desire to make ambient music with only a guitar - exploring the limits of effects and experimentation in the recording process - but slowly grew into an outlet for the material that didn't make it to my band, trespassers william.
Part solo project and part collaborations, contributors have included: the rest of my band, people over the internet (Ma-Chan, Klassen), classical singer Dino Palazzi - and on the new record, guitarist Bill Frisell.
The first collection of songs, 'The Past is Never Far' was released in 2003 on the experimental label Skean Dhu. The new record 'Behind Us' is out now on Dynamophone records.
Rarely does ambient music flow with as much ease as Disinterested’s (a.k.a. Matt Brown) sophomore release. Behind Us is a gorgeous dream of shoegazey drones and echo-laden guitar melodies. It's cinematic, it's melancholy, and it's definitely become our latest stoned-on-bus-at-night soundtrack.
XLR8R
Disinterested is primarily the work of one man, guitarist Matt Brown. Don't let his moniker dissuade you though. Behind Us is his second full length (and his first for this label), and an engagingly soothing listen it is. It's an album of grey skies, the anticipation of a thunderstorm. Very weighted with solemnest of moods, but not heavyhanded, these eleven post-rock instrumentals accumulate atmospheric layers of shuffling drumbeats and droning blankets of effected guitars and loops (some by Bill Frisell, by the way!). Breathy female vocals appear briefly in one track Felt (Leaves). Austere and beautiful.
Aquarius Records
Set to feature several compositions in the Shoegaze-ambient vein, not a million miles from Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd's recent collaboration, "What You Wanted" is lifted from the album and is a delicious taster incorporating a triumphant, euphoric accumulation of blurring ambiance and echo-drenched guitar.
AngryApe
On Behind Us, Trespassers William guitarist Matt Brown dons his Disinterested guise for a second album of gorgeous shoegaze-ambient guitar settings. Though Brown generally works alone, it's telling that one guest is none other than celebrated ‘jazz' guitarist Bill Frisell since Brown, like Frisell, is an innovator open to the sonic possibilities offered by effects pedals and other equipment. How lovely it is to hear the two entwining six-string fragments over a flickering base in the slow-burning meditation “Blankets.” Behind Us is always heavily atmospheric and often melancholy, with “I Wish It Was the 90's,” a pensive setting of graceful guitar peals, perhaps the album's most beautiful piece, though lovely moments of stately grandeur also emerge during “Dissonance” and “What You Wanted.” Some of the material is close in spirit to Manual, whether it be dramatic shoegaze (“Last”) or widescreen ambient (“Behind Us,” “Sunnydayafter”), while the shuddering intro in “January” will remind some listeners of Klimek. Mention should also be made of guest Anna-Lynne Williams whose delicate murmur nicely enhances “Felt Leaves.” If there's one puzzling thing about the project, it's Brown's choice of alias: Behind Us sounds anything but disinterested.
- TEXTURA
