artist: MATT SHOEMAKER
title: The Sunken Plethora Consumes All
label: Mystery Sea
country: Belgium
format: CDR
"These four tracks explore the idea of comparative immensity. They're not as much literal
depictions (despite the field recordings on the 1st track), but impressions, moods,
metaphors, etc. arranged for subjectivity and balance. I believe that at the end of the day,
whether we want to be there or not, we all end up in the depths; it's a natural course
that's indifferent to our most tenacious attempts at stability. Considering the phenomena
is a beautiful thing."  (Matt Shoemaker)

"US sound artist Matt Shoemaker has surely a voice of his own in the experimental
music scene...

Blending natural sounds (field recordings) with others sourced from various electronic
apparatus (both analog & digital) or acoustic instruments, Matt drags out new sense from
this friction...

Barely relying on models generated by his predecessors or current peers, he has chosen
instinctive introspection & autarkic audio-scripts pushing forward their own world of rich
abstraction...

Most of all, his sonic refined amalgams recontextualize and question the perceptual
approach of our surroundings, processing by subdued psychogeographic strokes &
allusions...

After acclaimed works for Trente Oiseaux, Helen Scarsdale Agency, Oblast, & Ferns,
commissioned works for radio, art galleries, and various pieces for compilations, he
shaped another aural wonder for MS..."  (Mystery Sea)