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December…Washing the Western Lands…

Those of you who live on the Western Coast of North America, see what we do with our washing machine, live!  The West Coast performances are opened by our friend, soundman, mastering engineer, recipient of prizes, Danish-educated in Sonology, comfortable and appropriate playing with death grind, but also with Matmos:   Jeff Carey.

Matmos Plays ULTIMATE CARE II
December  4 – Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg [TIX]
December  5 – San Francisco, CA – Gray Area/Grand Theater
December  7 – Portland, OR – Holocene [TIX]
December  8 – Vancouver, BC – Western Front [TIX]
December  9 – Seattle, WA – The Vera Project [TIX]

Matmos plays this insane festival, not, however, playing the Ultimate Care II :

December  17-18 – Houston, TX – Day for Night Festival ^ [TIX]

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Perfect Lives October/November 2016

Matmos performs 3 acts from Robert Ashley’s opera about life, death, reincarnation, the Corn Belt, Giordano Bruno and Buddy, the worlds greatest piano player with a string section, back up vocalists, and bespoke video work. This is a major event for us, and we hope that you join us for it.

15/10/16    Paris    Centre Pompidou    France

20/10/16    Krakow (PL)    Unsound Festival    Poland

23/10/16    London    Milton Court Concert Hall    United Kingdom

26/10/16    Lisbon (PT)    Teatro Maria Matos    Portugal

29/10/16    Nantes (FR)    Le Lieu Unique    France  @ SOY Festival.

01/11/16    Bari    Time Zones Festival    Italy

04/11/16    Metz    Centre Pompidou    France

“Short phrases repeated  massage the brain”

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The West – 1998

We have made available our 1998 album The West on Bandcamp. Please support us in our endeavor while adding this classic album to your digital collection. Includes original cover and liner notes.

https://matmos.bandcamp.com/

“The sky is always the hardest part.”

We’re not sure about this crowning glory business, but The West has been described as…

…a sun-bleached prairie-bound fandango, the San Franciscan duo of Drew Daniel and M C Schmidt pooled together traditional tropes and instrumentation for 1999’s The West. It remains the group’s crowning glory and closely follows the cross-pollinating template laid out by Chicago’s Gastr Del Sol on their wondrous Camoufleur album, released the previous year. …

-Spencer Grady, Record Collector Magazine

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Matmos brings Ultimate Care II to Europe BECOME CLEAN wash your sins away

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Ultimate Care II is released. Please matronize a local record shop and purchase it.

All we can promise is,

“Musically, too, it’s beautifully realised, structured in movements which incorporate numerous different styles” and “an authentic sounding-board for quality electronic music.”  -MusicOMH  (UK)

Perhaps you’d like a guarantee of

“Repeated spins prove its musical merits…”  -London In Stereo

Everyone likes a sound work that…

“…is both high concept and instant appeal. No one else makes music anything like this, and I doubt anyone else knows how, or would have the wit to pull it off if they did”   -Dalston Sound

Perhaps you’d like to read some things we sort of said in ARTFORUM to convince you that you should own this artwork?

http://artforum.com/words/id=58164

“Daniel and Schmidt have always been fascinated by texture, and here they focus on it intently, exploring dozens of ways that water can fall, slosh, churn, or hiss. During calmer interludes, drones move past as if floating through an amniotic sac.”  -Pitchfork

Or, perhaps you live in Whitefish, Montana, where I am not sure there IS a record shop. In which case you may order this artwork (and let’s keep in mind that  18 dollars is a pretty good price for an artwork) from

thrilljockey.com

IN other news, we will be doing a short tour of the eastern half of the United States, and later Europe. But we’d like to say, that although you SIMPLY MUST come to these shows, what we really do best is make recorded sound works. The album is the important thing (to us). This is the experience we would like you to have…everything else is gravy. Enjoy our record.

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Max Eilbacher made a video for Ultimate Care II.

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M.C.S. in High Zero 2014

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M.C.Schmidt in High Zero 2015

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Most Wanted by Most Women!

The season of Ultimate Care continues with plunderiffic video by PEOPLE LIKE US made for Excerpt 5 of our new work, ULTIMATE CARE II.

Please watch in a darkened room with one hand on a recently washed snuggie. Imagine your self being washed, lovingly.  Here is a new favorite toy:

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