MATT SAWYER “MOMENTO”
Villahangar continues 2023 with its third release of the new year: the label launches on February 24th “Rendering”, the new track by one of its founders, Matt Sawyer. Italian, Matteo Saverio Cacciola, born in 1986, DJ and producer, manages the #MusicInTheAir Podcast at 360 degrees and is producer and creator of the contents of the Blog villahangar.com.
Matt returns to Villahangar after almost two years since the last EP, “Cloud’s Song” EP of 2021, endowed with an important appeal and supported by Solomun and by Sparrow & Barbossa, and just two months after the track “Rendering”.
Matt in recent years in addition to the production / recording side has shared the console with artists of the caliber of Frankie Knucles, Bob Sinclar, Black Coffee, Guy Garber, David Morales, Todd Terry, Roger Sanchez, Kungs and many others.
His musical style since 2015 has welcomed a whole new path. Matt was already present in the music scene previously under the name Mavee, Today, under the sign of courage and experimentation, embraces progressive-melodic sounds with hints and ethnic nuances, steel drums and a lot of 90s culture.
His numerous continuous projects see the collaboration and are supported all over the world by international artists. Matt Sawyer works tirelessly to spread his recognizable and highly sought after sound, reserving a prominent place for the importance he intends to give to the artists with whom he collaborates and to their music.
With Rendering Matt is again on Black Coffee’s Spotify playlist “Black Coffee’s Track ID’s” and the song had the support of many international DJs: for example, it was played by Jamiie @this_is_jamiie, and it’s in Traxsource’s Top100 Progressive House.
“Momento” since last year has been immediately in the playlists of international DJs: always Solomun played the song in the closing ’22 of his Solomun + 1 at Pacha. A melodic, energetic and engaging song. A simple but pressing melody, fun, enveloping, inserted in a mood able to create, precisely, a “moment”.
A track developed over time, the result of entire piano sessions, synths and melodies, then recovered and inserted to complete or give a different thickness: elements to be set aside and rediscovered with another point of view.
An accurate work in placing the percussion and the bass turn, for the drafting and input of the piano, avoiding a too forced drop, to which to arrive with the rhythm and background melodies. And inserting as many real instruments as possible into the composition, exploring different cultures and uses of the same instrument: guitar, piano, synthesizer or vocals.
A new step in the path of musical maturation of the artist, who maintaining his taste for the use of drum machines or percussion, reaches a new level of awareness and personal taste.
The cover of the EP, entitled “Dissonanze Visive” is created by the artist Francesco Maccapani Missoni, heir to one of the most important and beloved families of Italian preÌ‚t-aÌ€-porter.
