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De Profundis

Natalia Mateo

De Profundis

Format: CD
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427973429
Catnr: ACT 97342
Release date: 07 April 2017
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Label
ACT music
UPC
0614427973429
Catalogue number
ACT 97342
Release date
07 April 2017

"5. The Profundis, Natalia Mateo, ACT Music The Polish vocalist Natalia Mateo does not deny her origins, but shows no signs of homesickness or nostalgia. Folk from her native region is just as useful to her as jazz, pop or rock, always with an approach that points to avant-garde. Sometimes she sounds freaky, then hectic or otherwise profound. She completly rips apart well-known hit songs."

Het Parool, 30-12-2017
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About the album

Enigmatic and profound
In “De Profundis”, ECHO awardee Natalia Mateo combines the worlds of jazz, Polish folk, and singingsongwriting into a mesmerizing game of illusion. The album is inspired by Mateo’s Polish origins, by the influences of her adoptive city of Berlin, and by artists who defy convention like Björk and Joni Mitchell. Mateo captivates the listener with her intensity as much as her restraint. Judiciously sparse instrumentation creates a sense of intimacy and a unique sound. Through originals and covers, singing that can be both gentle/lyrical and angular/punchy, “De Profundis” reveals Natalia Mateo’s individuality in full.

Artist(s)

Natalia Mateo (vocals)

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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Simon Grote (piano)

Dany Ahmad (guitar)

Sebastian Gille (saxophone)

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Natalia Mateo (vocals)

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)...
more

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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5. The Profundis, Natalia Mateo, ACT Music The Polish vocalist Natalia Mateo does not deny her origins, but shows no signs of homesickness or nostalgia. Folk from her native region is just as useful to her as jazz, pop or rock, always with an approach that points to avant-garde. Sometimes she sounds freaky, then hectic or otherwise profound. She completly rips apart well-known hit songs.
Het Parool, 30-12-2017

Mateo combines jazz to world music, combines intense and deep emotion to art, sings in several languages and makes use of voice improvisations which differ from the calibrated scat. (*****)
Jazzism, 19-6-2017

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