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Agnes 04:01
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Untitled #9 02:56
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Gravity 03:45
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Chimera 01:46
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Coral 06:57
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Barrea 03:21
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Alberto 03:24
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Ubiquitous 02:22
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Causeway 04:42
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MMXVI 03:33
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Fisherman 02:26
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Matryoshka 03:48

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Liberatore's Solos is the Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer's debut solo album, marking his first formal venture in the exploration of composition through improvisation. "Unorthodox," "haunting," "uncanny" (The New York City Jazz Record), and "strange" (All About Jazz), the album's rich textures and mesmerizing expressions were crafted on a single guitar without overdubs or looping. Located at the intersection of contemporary classical and noise music, Liberatore takes up items ranging from the canonical to the abrasively intimate––bass bows; bed springs––in building a work of transcendent minimalism paradoxically-inspired by the "world without objects" ethos of Agnes Martin, for whom the opening track is named.

The album was released in 2018 on Innova Recordings
www.innova.mu/albums/matteo-liberatore/solos

PRESS:

"Solos presents a dark world of innovative sounds, an avant-garde/noise/classical-folk-jazz-like hybrid. Strange yet accessible music that seems just a beginning of an exploration of unlimited possibilities." Dan McClenaghan for All About Jazz

"This is not just sonic novelty or gratuitous use of extended techniques; each of the pieces while largely improvised, have clarity and purpose that creates really interesting and memorable pieces of music...“Solos” is a wonderful record that introduces us to an interesting new voice in the world of experimental guitar. Liberatore’s music is very imaginative. “Solos” explores textures driven by propulsive rhythms, stark counterpoint of contrasting colors, and lyrical noise, sometimes all in the same piece. Highly Recommended!" Chris DeChiara for Avant Music News

“Liberatore’s unorthodox and experimental techniques also lend a striking physicality to his work […] Liberatore’s playing sways gracefully between moments of discord and unsettling beauty […] Innovative and uncanny, his technique doesn’t act as an end in itself but, rather, as a means for him to express uncertainty and disquiet to haunting effect.” Annie Murnighan for The New York City Jazz Record

"For where the electric and acoustic guitar is today in New Music-Improv worlds, you can give yourself a real leg up on things by listening to the music of Matteo Liberatore, in a recent album simply entitled Solos ...Beyond and aside from the rather ingenious ways the guitar is rethought with the various extended techniques of which Matteo makes very creative use, the music fascinates on its own. Bravo!" Grego Applegate Edwards for Classical Modern Music

“Listening to this album, I feel like my fingers are running along a raw edge of sheet metal. My body tightens up and my heart beats a little faster. Liberatore and the imagery he has created has physical affect […] Liberatore’s “Agnes” is deeply emotive. He guides us to a place of beautiful sorrow and reflection” Jeanne Landers for Jazz Right Now

“This is a masterpiece of weirdness”. - Bruce Lee Gallanter for Downtown Music Gallery

"What Giorgio De Chirico is to modern art, Matteo Liberatore is to modern avant-garde." Susan Frances, Seattlepi

"Solos reveals that the electronics of his previous work were just the icing on the cake of his musicality." Michael Ross for Guitar Moderne

““Barrea” re-establishes the project's experimental tone in presenting bowed creakings that suggest the wails of anguished ghouls; even more stripped down is “Alberto,” whose strum-accented scrapes and rustlings call to mind ghost towns collapsing into ruins, and “Fisherman,” whose bowed expressions sound like whistlings across a grave or two.” Textura

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released January 26, 2018

Recorded by Matteo Liberatore in his studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Mixed and Mastered by Elliott Sharp
Cover Art by www.dancovert.com

All Rights Reserved. Innova is the label of the American Composers Forum.
Innova Recordings, 332 Minnesota Street E-145, St. Paul, MN 55101, USA
www.innova.mu

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Guitarist and composer from NYC (not all releases are here, please check my website below)

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