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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).

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Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano

Label: ILK Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Prologue; Visceral Sketch part I; Visceral Sketch part II; Visceral Sketch part III; Visceral Sketch part IV; Visceral Sketch part V; Visceral Sketch part VI; Visceral Sketch part VII: Visceral Sketch part VIII; Epilogue.

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Article: Album Review

Matt Choboter: Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano

Read "Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano" reviewed by Doug Collette


Conceived and executed as an extended aural narrative performed on a custom-built microtonal prepared piano, Matt Choboter's Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano radiates an orchestral  air from its very inception via “Prologue."  Intentional or not, the tones recall those of a child's music box, the plucked nature of which complements those bell-like ...

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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.

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Article: Year in Review

Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Doug Collette's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Matt Choboter: Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging

Read "Unburying, from Liminals, Emerging" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Optimism, Evolution & Telepathy

Read "Optimism, Evolution & Telepathy" reviewed 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 ...

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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)

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Matt Choboter And Tania Giannouli: Pianistics

Read "Matt Choboter And Tania Giannouli: Pianistics" reviewed 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 ...

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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


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