"Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"
-Nigel Tufnel
“...the music is remarkably cohesive ...with a supreme patience ...rumble to the sound of distant thunder ...this album’s prevailing tranquility is a perfect soundtrack for a solemn Sunday morning ...It’s a wonderful recording, and I’ve become quickly addicted.”
- Dave Sumner, Bird Is The Worm (read more)
"Each new record seems to be another story... this is melodic, minimalistic, and enchanting chamber jazz. The French composer Erik Satie would have liked the simple complexity of this music."
- Jakob Baekgaard, AllAboutJazz (read more)
Matthew Golombisky is someone who has spent most of his life getting into situations where some sort of creative solution is the answer and that´s where he thrives most. He´s been (and still is) a novel painter, photographer, simple game inventor, forest fort builder, idea doer, curator of cool stuff, brainstormer, etc.
BUT professionally he is an acoustic & electric bassist, composer, improviser, conductor, producer, educator, and ideator who also wears many hats: ie. director/founder of independent record label ears&eyes Records; curriculum developer, teaching artist, and board member of 501(C)3 non-profit Institute for Creative Music; director of the publicity agency and artist marketing firm, Thirsty Robot Media; but also in the past, the conductor & artistic director of the youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear, in Avellaneda, Argentina; stage-manager for Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John; DJ-ed/produced radio for WNUR 89.3FM Chicago; curated annual ears&eyes Festivals (2006-2008); ideated for Clorox; wrote, composed and directed musical theatre for Bizzo!. Currently, he is embarking on his first music education/exploration book, Etudes for Improvisation, which is expected winter of 2023 via IfCM Publishing. As of fall of 2023, he has also accepted a part-time teaching position at the Durham Charter School (NC) focusing on Electronic Music Production for high school scholars.
Matthew has lived and been active in music and festival scenes in Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, San Francisco Bay Area, upstate New York, and Asheville NC, as well as toured the USA and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Pedway, Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Zing!, Jhelisa, Golombisky-Kirchner Duo, WATIV, QMRplus, & more. He has taught performance, improvisation, composition, theory, production, recording techniques, and music marketing to youth and adults for more than 25 years in schools and colleges across the US and Argentina.
AllAboutJazz and writer Jakob Baekgaard called Matthew, in an interview/article a “modern renaissance man” (with over 200,000 views). He is a forward-moving, fast-acting, and busy artist. Between his acoustic/electric bass performing, commissioned compositions (including his work on Australian singer/songwriter Via Tania’s latest album, featuring his Tomorrow Music Orchestra, his film scoring contributions to Argentine director Alejo Domínguez’s feature film, La Soñada, or creating improvisation teaching supplements for the Institute for Creative Music), directing, filming and editing music videos and/or release trailers (ie. Cuentos, Chad Taylor, Nate Lepine, TMO, Quintopus, Matija Dedic, blink.), creating layout design work and/or photography for websites and albums (e&e.com, Matija Dedic, Pedway, Quintopus), conducting, directing and composing for at-risk youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear in Argentina where they performed in the tango-famed Teatro Roma, founding/directing indie label, ears&eyes Records (2023 marks 17 years), and most recently releasing his Volume 4 for Cuentos and trio co-led group Pedway on vinyl, just maybe he can back AllAboutJazz’s forceful claim.
He´s been an important figure in helping propel the amazing and creative music coming out of Argentina for a number of years and has been featured as a producer and record label director in articles (such as InfoBAE, BA Jazz, Impronta de jazz ) but also featured in Fernando Rios’ book Un Panorama del Nuevo Jazz Argentino (2000-2020) as well as print-magazines BA Jazz.
Matthew's undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (1997-2001) led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance with an emphasis on 20th Century Classical music & theory, while earning the Distinction in Music Award, and Master’s studies to an M.M. in ‘classical’ Composition from the University of New Orleans (2004-2006) after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005.
Matthew’s discography includes over 65 recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scoring, artwork/design, photography, recording/mixing, and/or production.
His composition style is wide-ranging, steeped in modern classical, experimental, experiential, thoughtful, jazz, rock, electro noise, and pop genres, but never limits himself to anything and absorbs all music listened to. He creates moods and aural images that captivate, intrigue, invigorate, confuse and/or excite his audience. Rock on y’all!