Biography
THE WELCOME MATT
“Matt has found the secret to truly personable songwriting. Evoking the Beatles circa Rubber Soul with a little Ray Davies and a little Cake as he drifts somewhere between Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Bob Dylan, mastering a sense of expert lyrical spacing and rasping dreamy opinion.” Indiemusic.com
Welcome Matt's “MEMBERS OF SOUND” is currently underway. A roving musical project that will be created and recorded with a variety of musicians and producers over the next 24 months releasing 1 song a month. Songs loosely based on the musicians up and down journey . The first song eleven songs “ TURNS TO GOLD” (released in July, 2009) to “YOU ARE THE CHORDS" (May, 2010) are currently available across the digital universe.
Welcome Matt's songs have been aired on two major networks, Fox and NBC. "In San Francisco," a track from his second solo record, "Empire Days," was picked up by Triple AAA megastation KFOG and featured on their 2004 Summer Sampler, alongside Michael Franti of Spearhead and Matt Nathanson.
MEMBERS OF SOUND
My plan is to release a song a month over the course of twenty months with various producers and musicians, fitting the pieces to my puzzle as I go.
These ideas are based on (though I'll most likely do some wandering off) versions on my own experiences of playing music over the years with a nod of recognition to the countless musicians and songwriters out there in the trenches some of whom I've been fortunate enough to have traveled along side with. Songs about the kid who at first gravitates innocently toward music in its raw and spiritual form into the desire of some rockstar life few can ever attain.
The joke of emulating worn out cliches associated with drugs, sex, and rock and roll even without the fame or money or sex.
Depression, frustration, crushed hopes and dreams of clawing up ladders to nowhere. The egos, arrogance, selfishness, the backstabbing, the obsession with trying to be recognized. The realization that your corporate, blue collar job or cover band may end up being your true source of income after all.
Yet over time no matter what level you achieve "making it" may wind up being something else you never expected.
Maybe it's the perseverance and perfection of your craft that is the real goal which may trump all of vanity's distractions. Maybe it's the on going search of the full potential of your own creativity, you coming into your own, on your own terms, with or without the trappings of popularity and the constant search for approval that matters the most.
The vibrations of music may not only be bigger than the struggle, but it may very well be the foundation of existence itself.
The kid comes in a full circle after the long wild tangent back to the original reasons for the gravitation toward the vibrations of sound. That raw source, that reason from the beginning that was forgotten.
The musician, the artist, finally sees not only his or herself as a member of those vibrations, but perhaps everyone here on our blue little planet, knowingly or not, are members of sound, and here we are together riding on a song through space and time life, death.
Many of the songs are still being written as I go. The rough sketches are basically done . The first session has been completed with my current full band WELCOME MATT line-up Andrew Lion, Rick Munez, Michael Papenburg, Pat Kelly and Joe Heavey. Five songs were recorded at Broken Radio with Matt Boudreau . The second session has also been recorded with Jeff Symonds on keyboards and Bass and Joey Castor on percussion at Prairie Sun studios with Wain Hewlett . Owls flew overhead at the end of the session as we were leaving on the longest day of the year. I'll choose to take it as a good omen though I'm sure it was just owl mating season.
MEBERS OF SOUND SONG 16
MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 15
MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 14
MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 13
"That I Can Do" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 12
"Drugs Talkin" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 11
"You Are The Chords" (Featuring Megan Slankard) BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 10
"Tremor Land" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 9
"Prettist Girl in the World" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 8
"Sinking" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 7
"The Battle Between Sun and The Fog" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 6
"PERFECT FOR US" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 5
"NO ONE CAN STOP US" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 4
"WIT'S END" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 3
"FACE YOUR LUCK" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 2
"THE SOUL REMAINS THE SAME" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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MEMBERS OF SOUND SONG 1
"TURNS TO GOLD" BUY NOW ON ITUNES
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