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Matt Choboter
Award-winning Canadian composer and pianist, Matt Choboter’s music paints subliminal sound narratives between the cracks of avant-jazz, experimental and contemporary classical. Informed by non-western cultures and eclectic spiritualism, he embraces liminal psychology and dream work; immersive explorations into wild nature; a rather sentient, animistic existential orientation; and a musical practice which absorbs particular features of South Indian classical and Balinese Gamelan.
Choboter’s music invites reflection into the deep past whether on a personal or collective scale. This reflects itself in his travels to places like Chennai (studying oral musical traditions of South India), Delphi (explorations into myths of ancient Greece) and the Dordogne Valley (delving into palaeolithic cave art of southern France).
Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging
Label: ILK Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Sumerian Rock Tapestry; Buried Language; Marrow Midden; Moon's Iced Glades;
Wayang Kulit; Pupa Karma.
Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Doug Collette
These may not have been the only titles that provided respite from the inane insanity (insane inanity?) around us this year, but each in its own way commanded deep and abiding attention in and of itself. Mary Halvorson Cloudward Nonesuch Records Satoko Fujii Jet Black ...
Matt Choboter: Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging
by Doug Collette
More than just the title of this particular album, Unburying, From Liminals, Emerging, might well be a description of the process Matt Choboter has followed on his previous few records. Dating back to Anima Revisited (Songlines, 2021), then Sleep Inertia (ILK, 2022) and Postcards of Nostalgia (ILK, 2023), the Canadian pianist and composer has explored the ...
Optimism, Evolution & Telepathy
by Bob Osborne
2024 is proving to be an excellent year for new jazz. This new selection is no exception. The show kicks off with a couple of bass players, includes two new albums featuring Daniel Carter, and has visits to South America and Australia, amongst other places. The variety of styles and genres included is a testament to ...
Postcards of Nostalgia
Label: ILK Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. The Dreamer Remains (4:38)
2. Font-de-Gaumes (5:07)
3. Eleusinian Mystery (2:37)
4. Castalian Spring (4:07)
5. Temptations Taward Sorcery (3:09)
6. Pneuma (3:05)
7. Descent to Deep Valley Water (3:11)
8. The Circular Ruins (3:21)
9. Weaving Ropes of Sand (4:29)
10. Omphalos (5:22)
Matt Choboter And Tania Giannouli: Pianistics
by Doug Collette
More than merely a study in contrasts, these recordings by Matt Choboter and Tania Giannouli are mirror images of each other. Both artists take markedly different approaches to illustrate the versatility of the three-hundred plus year old percussion instrument that is the piano. On the one hand, Giannouli's recording is the definition of bare-bones, at least ...
Anima Revisited
Label: ILK Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Primordial Hinterland 06:03
2. Collapsing Cathedral 02:09
3. Croix Des Luzes 01:44
4. Chthonic 02:47
5. the Tea Man and the Ruffian 02:59
6. Floodwaters and Swimming Rats 01:33
7. Postcards of Nostalgia 10:50
8. Tarkovskian Portals 04:53
9. Cuneiform and the Walled Garden 06:00
10. Songline 01:10
11. Death by Cut Tongue 01:50
12. Northward on Caribou Highway 05:57
Sleep Inertia
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Knecht; Converging Diverging Part I; Converging Diverging Part II; Pagan Rainmaker; Sleep Inertia; Narcissus; Teslin Lake; Goldmund's Chatauqua.
Matt Choboter's Hypnopompia: Sleep Inertia
by Doug Collette
In keeping with its title, these eight tracks of just over fifty-minutes comprise a waking/sleeping dreamscape where conscious thoughts crystallize. then turn amorphous in an engrossing cyclical pattern. The fourteen or so minutes of the two-part “Converging Diverging" elucidate the most literal instrumental explication of the concept: replete with far too much ornate detail to fit ...
