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Heart Of Darkness

Natalia Mateo

Heart Of Darkness

Price: € 22.95
Format: CD
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427973023
Catnr: ACT 97302
Release date: 13 March 2015
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ACT music
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0614427973023
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ACT 97302
Release date
13 March 2015
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“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. ”This quote from the 1899 short novel “Heart of Darkness” by Polish writer Joseph Conrad could also be Natalia Mateo’s philosophy of life. The 31 year-old vocalist is a wanderer between the worlds - musically and in real life. Born in Poland, raised in Austria and now living in Germany, she has absorbed the most varied of impressions and cultures into her being. She draws from the Slavic ballad tradition, from American jazz and singer-songwriters ranging from Joni Mitchell to Amy Macdonald, and from contemporary pop and rock music. Mateo’s music is a highly personal declaration of love to tradition and modernity, to familiarity on the one hand and on the other to the wanderlust throbbing in her heart and head, to the beauty of emotional attachment, of deepest interp...
„Diese Stimme hat eine eigene Geschichte zu erzählen“, schreibt Die ZEIT über Natalia Mateo. Und die FAZ hört „Jazzblüten mit tiefen Wurzeln": Die 1983 geborene Sängerin ist eine Wanderin zwischen den Welten - musikalisch und im Leben. Geboren in Polen, aufgewachsen in Österreich und jetzt in Deutschland lebend hat sie die unterschiedlichsten Eindrücke und Kulturen in sich aufgesogen und verarbeitet: Mateo schöpft aus der slawischen Liedtradition, aus amerikanischem Jazz und dem Singer Songwritertum von Joni Mitchell bis Amy Mac-Donald sowie der zeitgenössischen Pop- und Rockmusik. Das Jazzpodium schreibt über die Sängerin: „Mateos Stimme besitzt etwas Kristallines, etwas melancholisch Sprödes. Sie klingt verletzlich – aber nicht verletzt. Selbstbewusst, ohne auch nur den Ansatz eines elitären Anspruchs.“

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Natalia Mateo

Music and the Arts had always been an integral part of the houshold. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, grew up in Austria, then attended a nuns girls’ school back in Poland, at the time being she is living in Germany. Piano, violin and guitar lessons, the Arts, the nuns, studied languages and humanities, frequent house moving not only left an imprint, they have spun the soul’s fabric into what it is now – a rare mixture, soft but tear-proof, thin as a veil, controversial against the background of all hijab debates, at times thick and rough as biker leather. Against the odds, through the thickett of various projects, teachers, downs and ups, failures and successes (in this exact order)...
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Music and the Arts had always been an integral part of the houshold. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, grew up in Austria, then attended a nuns girls’ school back in Poland, at the time being she is living in Germany. Piano, violin and guitar lessons, the Arts, the nuns, studied languages and humanities, frequent house moving not only left an imprint, they have spun the soul’s fabric into what it is now – a rare mixture, soft but tear-proof, thin as a veil, controversial against the background of all hijab debates, at times thick and rough as biker leather. Against the odds, through the thickett of various projects, teachers, downs and ups, failures and successes (in this exact order) she landed at the Institute for Music in Osnabrück with first class music teachers and a personalised and supportive musical setting. All that is supposedly in the music, but look for yourself.

Lessons and workshops taken with Anne Hartkamp, Tineke Postma, Caroline McPherson, Daniel Mattar, Maria Helmin, Romy Camerun, Fay Claassen, Simin Tander, Andreas Wahl, Efrat Alony, Christian McBride, Christoph Hillmann, David Friedman and others.


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