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Amplified Guitar

by Mat Ball

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Pressed on heavy 180 gm vinyl, housed in a reverse-board jacket.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Amplified Guitar via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • 180gm LP + Accidents Book
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    AMPLIFIED GUITAR: the first full-length solo recording by Mat Ball (of BIG|BRAVE). While listeners can enjoy Amplified Guitar at any volume, Ball was most assuredly turned way up when performing these pieces––each recorded in only one single take, live and unadorned, at Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Godspeed’s Efrim Manuel Menuck. Far from being a noise record, Amplified Guitar is an entirely musical and beautiful work and Ball’s use of amplified resonance and feedback often mimics the long gestures and sustained tones of bowed or woodwind instruments.

    ACCIDENTS: Operating as a visual analog to the Amplified Guitar LP, the work in Mat Ball's book Accidents is also based on chance: chance in discovery, chance in process, or chance in accidental results. Whether found at rest and documented in that natural/untouched state, or assembled/touched by Ball's hand, the aleatoric element in each piece is vital.

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  • Accidents Book
    Book/Magazine

    Operating as a visual analog to the Amplified Guitar LP, the work in Mat Ball's book Accidents is also based on chance: chance in discovery, chance in process, or chance in accidental results. Whether found at rest and documented in that natural/untouched state, or assembled/touched by Ball's hand, the aleatoric element in each piece is vital.

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credits

released July 1, 2022

Single take performances by Mat Ball

Recorded on Feb 28, 2021 by Efrim Menuck at Hotel2Tengo, Montreal, QC

Mixed and mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI

Photographs by Stacy Lee

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Mat Ball Montreal, Québec

Mat Ball is an experimental guitar player from Montreal, Canada. A founding member of the group BIG|BRAVE in existence since 2012, over the last few years he has been quietly developing and working on solo guitar music. Very much like his work with BB, relying heavily on amplitude and feedback with a strong emphasis on minimalism and the drone, deconstruction is a key element in his compositions. ... more

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