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Matthew Golombisky bassist&composer__________________________________
BIO: Matthew Golombisky is an active bassist, composer, conductor, improviser,
radio DJ (WNUR 89.3FM)
and presenter. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but has
been active in music, festival, and film scenes in Chicago, New Orleans,
Asheville, North Carolina as well as touring the USA and some of Europe.
He also directs the community collective known as “ears&eyes”,
which “represents” bands such as Silences Sumire, Maurice,
Box 3, Zing!,
Pedway, James
Davis Quintet, Algernon,
among others and curates an annual music/arts/film festival
under the same name. He was excited to present performers Eleventh Dream
Day, The Eternals, Parts & Labor, Fred Lonberg-Holm’s Zenith
Works, Mike Reed’s
People, Places and Things, L’Altra, David
Daniell/Doug McComb Duo, among others, at the 2008 ears&eyes Festival.
His undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville
led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance and graduate studies to
a M.M. in Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief
stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through
New Orleans in August 2005. He continues to dedicate much energy to presenting
wonderful, original and creative music through several groups including
his 30 piece jazz/classical/rock ensemble, Tomorrow
Music Orchestra. He also frequently performs with electric jazz-rock
quintet, Zing!,
acoustic free improv trio, Pedway,
drums and bass rock out, punk jazz duo, GKduo
with long time collaborator, Quin
Kirchner, and jazz septet led by trombonists Jeb
Bishop and Jeff Albert,
Lucky 7s. Currently
he is working on a concerto, of sorts, with bassist Larry
Grenadier, to be performed by his Tomorrow Music Orchestra. His composition
style is wide ranging, steeped in jazz, classical, experimental, electronic,
sound design, rock and pop genres, but never limits himself to whatever
is needed or wanted. Among loving all of the above, he also loves to drink
slow drip, iced coffee with soy milk from PJ’s,
but they’re only in New Orleans. In addition, he loves; life, friends,
music, live things, people, traveling, experiencing, creating, listening,
reading, looking, capturing, sleeping, running, eating, breathing, laughing,
making others laugh, seeing, being, and being. And being.
BASS PERFORMANCE SAMPLES
"Bass Interlude" on Red Shift's debut album: 2:02
"Mom's Block Party" - myself & James Davis: 5:57
"Golombisky"
on Baghdad Music Journal: 6:40
Bill MacKay & self - acoustic demo medley: 3:19
VIDEO/AUDIO SAMPLES
"Corporate
Whore" (mixed media short): 1:04
Tomorrow Music Orchestra @ Strobe Studios
COMPOSED AUDIO SAMPLES:
"Determining What's Next." chamber orchestra: 6:58
general SAMPLER (various): 3:36
"Gustav
29 Hannah Concerto" for TMO & Helen Gillet (sample): 1:55
"scary" music/sound design "Paper Work" (film): 2:00
sound design "dark music": 5:17
mixed acoustic/electronic "dramatic" (2002): 8:32
"For Buster" piano introspective: 4:33
"Bows,Fingers&Mallets" introspective: 1:48
"Bows,Fingers&Mallets" introspective: 2:04
"messengers
in skirts/Slakeshore" (excerpts) by TMO: 6:48
"A Long Time Without a Name." performed by Red Shift: 3:56
light/eccentric theme (bassoon/strings): 1:46
character
theme "Paper Work" (film): 2:02
live sound design from alto sax only (Caroline Davis): 1:29
mixed acoustic/electronic "IDM": 0:42
MORE @ THESE SITES:
Matthew Golombisky (myspace)
Tomorrow
Music Orchestra (web)
(myspace)
DISCOGRAPHY:
- The Spirits at Bell's, Jimmy Bennington/Perry Robinson
Quartet, Cadance, 2009
-
Holiday for Vacationers, The
Other Planets, ears&eyes/Attention Spaniel, 2008
- Return is Selective, Silences
Sumire, Ropeadope Digital, 2008
- Lost to the Living, Daylight
Dies, Candle Light, 2008
- Jar Cell Dirge (EP), Pedway,
ears&eyes Records, 2008
-
Magnetic Flux, Zing!,
ears&eyes,
2007
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Chicago Junglebop Syndicate, ITS TIME, IZM Records, 2007
-
Uhzoid, QMRplus,
ears&eyes, 2007
- Farragut, Lucky
7s, Lakefront
Digital, 2006
- New Orleans/Katrina=Chicago+Santa Fe, Grilly Biggs, High
Mayhem, '06
- High Mayhem Festival 2005 (compilation), High
Mayhem, 2006
- Eightballs in Angola, The
Other Planets, Attention Spaniel, 2006
- Live @ Ice Factory, Tomorrow
Music Orchestra, ears&eyes,
2006
- neon jesus garage, Tomorrow
Music Orchestra, ears&eyes,
2006
-
backGammon, backGammon, Independent, 2006
- Introducing ::, GKduo,
ears&eyes,
2006
- LIVE!, QMRplus,
ears&eyes,
2005
- Baghdad
Music Journal, WATIV,
High Mayhem, 2005
- Dismantling Devotion, Daylight
Dies, Candlelight, 2005
- High Mayhem
Festival 2004 (compilation), High
Mayhem, 2005
- Redshift, Redshift, Independent, 2005
-
To Tide You Over, Grilly
Biggs, Independent, 2004
- Macy-Golombisky Duo, Live at Left Bank, Independent, 2001
Read
about Matthew Golombisky:
-
Dec. 6 2007 issue of Chicago
Reader (ears&eyes
Festival article);
- Nov. 2007 issue of Bass
Player (Larry Grenadier
interview);
-
Sept. 26 2007, Santa
Fe Reporter (High
Mayhem Festival review);
- March 2007 issue of DownBeat (Lucky 7s review);
- Fall 2006 issue of Zero Tolerance (Gunnelpumpers article);
- Summer 2006 issue of Double Bassist (Surviving
Katrina article);
- Chicago Jazz Festival 2006 issue of TimeOut (Lucky 7s article);
- Spring 2006 issue of Signal to Noise (WATIV article).
CURRENT
GROUPS/BANDS:
- Tomorrow
Music Orchestra – 30+ members (strings, brass,
woodwinds, voice, vibes, guitar, accordian and drum set); Chicago-based.
- GKduo
– Matthew Golombisky (MG): basses/likable noise/melodica/
percussion, Quin Kirchner (QK): drums/tapes/samples/percussion; Chicago.
- Zing!
– James Davis: trumpet/effects, Caroline Davis (CD): alto sax/
effects, Dave Miller: guitar/effects, MG: electric bass/likable noise,
QK:
drums; Chicago-based.
- Pedway
–
CD: alto sax, QK: drums, MG: acoustic bass;
Chicago-based.
- The
Other Planets – Anthony Cuccia: percussion/vocals,
Dr. Jimbo
Walsh: guitar, Dan Oestreicher: bari/bass saxophone, MM: vibes, MG:
elec. bass/effects, QK: drums, Tim McFatter: tenor sax/keyboards; New
Orleans-based.
- Lucky 7s
- Jeb Bishop: trombone, Jeff Albert: trombone/tuba, Josh
Berman: cornet, Keefe Jackson: tenor sax/bass clarinet, Jason
Adasiewicz:
vibes, QK: drums, MG: acoustic/electric bass; Chicago/New Orleans-based.
- Gunnelpumpers
– Doug Johnson: acoustic/electric contrabass/effects,
Michael Hovnanian: contrabass/effects, MG: contrabass/likable noise,
Doug Brush: tabla/percussion, Randy Farr: congas/percussion; Chicago-based.
- WATIV
- William A. Thompson IV: piano/rhodes/clarinet, Milton Villarrubia:
drums/melodica/effects, MG: acoustic bass/melodica/likable noise; Jackson,
MS/Santa Fe, NM/Chicago/New Orleans-based.
- backGammon
- James Diomede: voice, Casey Farina: made instr./computer,
Theron Humiston: guitar/synth, Jonathon Kirk: trombone/computer,
Dr. Stephen Syverud: piano, CD: alto sax/effects, MG: bass/likable noise;
Chicago-based.
- Dirty
Snow – James Davis: trumpet, Caroline Davis: alto sax,
Matthew
McClimon (MM): vibes, MG: acoustic bass; Chicago-based.
- Balkano
- Bryan Pardo: clarinet/tenor sax, Diana Lawrence: voice,
Joe Chellman: drums, Ari Seder: guitar,
JD: trumpet, MG: basses; Chicago
- Red
Shift – Tom Sandahl: guitar/keyboards, MM: vibes, MG:
acoustic/
electric bass/likable noise, QK: drums; Portland/Chicago-based.
- Grilly
Biggs – MM: vibes, MG: acoustic/electric bass/likable
noise, QK: drums/tapes, Milton Villarrubia: drums/sampler; Santa Fe/Chicago-based.
- QMRplus
– Robin Boudreaux: saxophones, MM: vibes, QK: drums, MG:
acoustic bass/likable noise; New Orleans/Chicago-based.
- The
Hall Monitors –
David Polk: sax/guitar/computer, Brigham Hall: keys/computer, QK: drums/sampler,
MG: electric bass/likable noise,
(also includes: Simon Lott: drums); New Orleans/Chicago-based.
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Performance Schedule:.____________________________ UPDATES Feb
11 '08 - 10pm - Bad Dog Tavern (Chi.) w/ Pedway Jan 7 '08 - 9pm - Reggie's w/ Pedway Jan 4 '08 - 10pm - Reggie's w/ GKduo Jan
3 '08 - 8pm - Velvet Lounge (Chi.) w/ Darts 'n Arrows |
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