HOTEL IS OUT

The new album out. Hotel. Available as CD / DL directly from Bandcamp or itunes, spotify, tidal, amazon etc..... three tracks for available for free download on soundcloud. 

Click the links, listen and let me know what you think.

'A beguiling, cinematic throb' Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales

Bandcamp -https://matthewpastkewicz.bandcamp.com/album/hotel

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0caj5vObOGrFJboF3AcuA5

Itunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hotel/id1099235527

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/matthew-pastkewicz

https://twitter.com/MattPastkewicz

https://www.instagram.com/matthewpastkewicz/

Reviews; 

When I reviewed Matthew Pastkewicz's Quarters EP last year, I described it as "percussive, pulsing electronica [that] sounds positively triumphant, like the sort of thing you hear in your head when you run for a train and actually catch it".

(Click link for full review)

Buzz Magazine. June 2016

Quarters EP

Matthew Pastkewicz, Quarters EP is out and available on Bandcamp in digital and physical formats. 

The EP includes two original tracks as a precursor to my forthcoming album, neither of the tracks are available anywhere else. 

Statesiders not wanting to fork out for shipping, ltd copies available at 

Heaven Street Records  184 Noll St, Brooklyn, NY 11237, United States

New Date

Tell Me What to Do returns to London for a night of experimental electronics and off-kilter pop at the Birds Nest in Deptford...

Beachers: From London but currently based in Riga, Beachers plays a mix of live electronics, manipulated field recordings and drones. This is the last date of a tour in anticipation of a new tape on the Jehu & Chinaman label. https://soundcloud.com/beachers

NOW: London's finest purveyors of catchy, contemporary, inventive, exotic, melodious, messy, harmonious and disharmonious 21st century experimental pop music. They have recently released an album called 'Irreversible Sound Adjustment.' http://nowtheband.com/

Matthew Pastkewicz: London based noise/drone/beats/sound collage, with broken guitar,brass, electronics, and incense. https://soundcloud.com/matthew-pastkewicz

Free entry

Live from Cardiff

Here is recording of my set live from Genre X Genre 2, Cardiff.... the whole night is available on the Red Venice Records bandcamp, and all the other artists set's sound incredible. Due to a crash on the M4 I was pretty strapped for time, which was unfortunate, but I had a great night. Thanks to; 'To The Lovers, Farewell', Ascend Silver Poison, A (Is to B) and Mu.

'Matthew was late due to a car crash in Reading, not caused by him I might add, so we were strapped for time when he finally arrived. This was disasterous to the audience because we were robbed of a full set. The ten minutes he played for were amazing, horns were played recorded, looped and then mashed live in a caldron of sound which may have been helped and driven by the use of max/msp. Seemed that way from a distance. Matthew's strobe light added to the effect as he seemed to be lost in the light as he sat on the floor and carried out his performance. I may be stealing that idea in the near future. Epileptics need not apply'. 

Red Venice Records. 

Next up; BIG BEATS FROM BADSVILLE in Cardiff..... information below. 

Cardiff

Cardiff

Genre X Genre *Click here*

New show announcements & music from the vault

20th June: Ruder Forms Survive: Plough and Harrow: Leytonstone: London. 7PM. £3 

26th August: @ 13th Note: Glasgow. 7PM £TBC 

6th September: Genre X Genre: @ The Full Moon: Cardiff. 7PM. £TBC

30th October: @ Gwdihw: Cardiff. 7PM. £TBC

 

Searching the vaults for inspiration, I rediscovered a track composed for my degree. A long form composition set to Egar Allan Poe's famous poem, 'The Raven'. I've put it up as a private track for Soundcloud followers, feel free to download. 

Work is underway on a full length: stay tuned.....

CRRMMXIII

On friday I was able to witness Deadfader tearing Cafe Oto a new asshole, it was awesome to watch - and felt more like an 'experience'. There I met the creator of Cutting Room Records CRMMXIII, a compilation for which I am massively excited to contribute. I got my hands on the finished article; a beautifully pressed mezzanine of noise, pressed to cassette (Ltd 100) in obnoxious red.
Now you can too.

BUY ME

Rough live recording.

And so it is, taken from a phone - the tail end of my set on Tuesday at Catch... and a great night it was too, a diverse line-up of 'kick-yr-ed-in' sonics. I implore you to listen to them all, buy / download everything these three bands/artists have to offer, and go to all their shows - you really can't miss.

Wars
http://listentowars.bandcamp.com/

Brutes
http://exterminatethebrutes.bandcamp.com/

Kostoglotov
www.soundcloud.com/kostoglotov

After the noise has gone.

Soooooooo,  Sunday 25th February - I'll be at the Birds Nest, Deptford for a lead-headed hangover day, with some of the most vicious, visceral, generally badass fuckers this side of Norfolk. 

4 Legs Good presents the third and final instalment to the Brighton Noise Festival, in which- having thoroughly infected the coast- some of the key components will march up north to the dilapidated metropolis known as London and hold a similar night of debauchery there...

UNHUMAN (Berlin/Species Productions)

Having recently played at Lärm Alarm Lärm noise/extreme electronics festival in Berlin he thought it would be fun to bring some of the action over to the UK for a weekend.
http://soundcloud.com/unhumangr

HOPE IN DYSTOPIA

Straight outta Stonehaven. Bleak and industrial one-man noise barrage. Power Electronics at its finest.
http://soundcloud.com/hopeindystopia

THE DDN

Mythical Scottish entity. Experimental music output. Take it or leave it. Don't be a stranger. Don't be a sinner.
http://www.ultrayonic.bandcamp.com/

NOW WASH YOUR HANDS

The UK's cleanest power electronics artist. Very entertaining but also highly informative. Strong lessons about the importance of personal hygiene.
https://www.facebook.com/nowwashyourhands

DOGFEET

Experimental hate music.
https://www.facebook.com/dogfeetmusic

KOSTOGLOTOV

Lo-fidelity ambient drone. Other-wordly calming effects.
http://www.soundcloud.com/kostoglotov

MATTHEW PASTKEWICZ

Loud. Meaningless. Noise.
https://soundcloud.com/matthew-pastkewicz

SHIT FILTER

War & sex & death noize


4pm-10.30pm

This is a FREE show but there is a suggested donation of £4 to feed the starving mouths of artists (or at least compensate their travel expenses)

As the 'Sunday Afternoise' title may suggest, these festivities do not stand alone. Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th, the good people of 4 legs good and Club Zygotic are celebrating all that is loud, tantric and esoteric (see links below) - it will be one HELL of a weekend. 

Brighton Noise One - Link

Brighton Noise Two - Link

Sunday Afternoise

New Track

While you guys are out partying, fornicating and generally loving life... some of us are more than content, in our rooms, creating mock number stations.

Perhaps the first song to have been recorded into a phone, under a blanket. We'll have Guinness check it in the morning.

Featuring: Smile.

5 & 1

5 & 1

EPD Demo

New track-in-the-works "The Telephone Rings" available below...




The next album is coming along well, i'm deep into polishing the mixes, The Telephone Rings still requires a few alterations but the spine is largely there. Enjoy!

Album offer

As a pre-cursor to my forthcoming album, I have made Imber available for 'pay what you'd like'. Whether this be £0 - £100 all downloads are appreciated and contributions even more so.

DOWNLOAD HERE

The next record is slowly trundling along in the mixing stage, all tracks are complete and nearly ready for your burning ears.....

Recording Drums

Michael Norris

Evening,

All studio-work has gone well, after a long and tiring (on the ears) session last night, I am currently taking a break from mixing.

Yesterday my friend (and housemate) came down to put guitar and violin on a few tracks, they are sounding positively apocalyptic - with more than a hint of 'New Age'. The record is already sounding more pastoral than the last and has a much greater emphasis on analogue sounds, which is defiantly a good move. I'm excited and looking forward to being able to share some of this with you.

Before I leave, to anyone creating ambient music, or mood music of any sort - I'd like to recommend Michael Norris' spectral plug-ins, I have been using some of these fairly heavily to blur sound-sources and generally make everything sound more 'ghostly',  Norris has a plethora of granulisers, filters, pitch-shifters, gates etc... all of them impressive, if that wasn't recommendation enough - the whole suite is free to download. Follow the link, enjoy.

Studio .1

Second Album Update

Good evening,

Exciting times ahead; a move to London looks imminent and the second album is in full swing. I will be locked in for a mammoth studio session next week and hope to share some sounds by the end of the summer.

Lately listening patterns have changed very slightly, an introduction to Stars of the Lid, has got me thinking about completely orchestrating a project in the future, while Black to Comm's Alphabet 1968 is back and freaking the shit out of my stereo. If you are not familiar with this album, I can thoroughly recommend listening to it in low lighting on high volume, it is the single most captivating and unsettling album I can remember listening to, though everything that Marc Richter (Black to Comm / Dekorder) touches falls just the right side of uneasy. Give it a listen. 

Digital Copies Available...

My album, is now available to purchase in a digital format for the *cough* reasonable price of £5.... Stay tuned for an update regarding physical copies.

For the moment I am looking to book live dates around the UK, so if anyone can / would like to help, or perhaps know any promoters that may be interested, please get in touch.

Matthewpastkewicz@gmail.com


 

Imber

Evening, My first full album, Imber, is available to listen to on the player below (artwork temporary). So please, turn your lights low and speakers to eleven..

If you are interested in purchasing a copy digitally it will be available in the near future, stay tuned here for developments. If physical is your thing I will have a limited run of CD's - but you will have to wait.

Enjoy..........