mattimatti - tomrum - gentle jams featuring handpan, sitar (Agogo Records)
We are mattimatti. two Mattis living in different countries – Sweden (Malmö) and Germany (Berlin). We travel around the world playing music while asking ourselves, ”who are we?”. the answer seems to change just as our surroundings do. But the music stays with us and so does the friendship. we met on the streets of Berlin in spring 2013 while one of us was playing on the streets. after we played the first time together, there was no question that we would travel a musical journey together from that day. mattimatti was initiated. on our quest we began playing improvised tunes on sitar and hang on the street while travelling through Sweden and Germany. this lead us to be invited to numerous festivals all over Europe while constantly developing our music and sound. since then our set has added new instruments such as a drum kit with hang, African harps, sitar, guitar, harmonica, clarinet, hank drum and vocals on top of it extending the sound with a space echo. the long, intimate tunes that we are creating have an original structure and sound. there is a certain present resting in the music which is hard to describe but easy to experience if you listen to it. our live concerts have been dubbed mythical, hypnotic, magic and epic. traveling is our biggest influence on music. mattimatti are now both based in Berlin & Malmoe and work together with the contemporary circus, dance and music group „kollektiv knaster“.
