Matt Jenson: Unmarked Routes

Matt Jenson | Unmarked Routes…through sonic hypnogogy

Solo Ambient Neo-Classical Dub Piano with Electronics and the MAGMA Dance Company

Luxuriating in atmosphere and drone-tones of awe and fascination, where thoughts and feelings of division have no safe harbor. A low-lit bath of sound, where iridescent, gauzy melodies collide in slow motion with decolonized electronic soundscapes, a piano, hushed voices and kaleidoscopic dancers, with the lucid assurance that a beautiful outcome will bloom, if together we direct our attention to it.

Matt Jenson has been on the piano faculty at Berklee College of Music for about 2 decades where he also teaches a class on Bob Marley. Many in and near Gloucester may have seen the Berklee Bob Marley ensemble at the Cut that Matt directs. He has toured and recorded internationally with the jazz-fusion reggae band, Groundation and performs locally and regionally with his reggae and Latin bands (Combo Sabroso and Mix Up Mix Up respectively). All of Matt’s music is informed by jazz, blues, Afro-Cuban and reggae styles and this brand new project, UNMARKED ROUTES, maintains these influences but with a completely new sound and feel.  The music is at once spacious, sophisticated and beautiful with the intention to take listeners on a sonic journey that is at times gentle and quiet and at other times subtlety intense and rhythmic. It’s what you might hear if Brian Eno jammed with Igor Stravinsky, King Tubby and Sade at Burning Man!

Matt will be performing new compositions and music from his soon-to-be-released double album illuminated by the MAGMA Dance Company and spectacular ‘screen art’ videos.

Tickets: sliding scale $15-35, buy online or at the door

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