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Matthias lives in Brasil because it offers good clima for the human and because its the place where we finde the richest mixture of races. As many brasilians believe, it might be the place where the "new human race is cooked". Probably due to these facts, improvisation, freshness, happyness, mysticism and chaos are very present.

With a musicians soul and a degree in electric engineering, Matthias developed in the last 25 years his music and the appropriate instruments in parallel.

The sound of Matthias is based on 3 legs:

• The sounds are different, clean and full of dynamics. The subtle vibration of the steel strings is amplified with high fidelity and sounds cleaner than an acoustic guitar. Transformed with polyphonic distortion and many other effects, it allows sounds that remind of organ, cello, flutes, without ever using sterile sythesizers or samplers.
• The LOOP delay (now ECHOPLEX digital pro by Gibson) allows infinite superpositions and reorganizations of repeated musical phrases as a background for extended solos and as accumulator for sound colors.
• The digital reverberation is programmed in its own way and allows to transport the public to unreal spaces.

The whole system is operated by sliders on the ground. So during the long songs, sounds may change gradually, never giving shocks (like a program change) but allowing extended trips through all kinds of stages.

The body of the music is simple:

Superpositions of simple melodies that turn into less common harmonies or disharmonies, remind of easy to understand folkloric musical languages of several traditions.

The head of the music is a clima of improvisation:

The essence comes through a channel that the music establishes between the material and non material world. Inspiration and casualty bring us unexplainable information about the universe, not only with a meditative effect, but also bringing up conflicts and paradox situations we can learn from or even clean out.

With the partners, the reverb and loop time is shared, so both enter the same acoustical room and rhythm becomes synchronized in a way that leaves the freedom for each musician to define rhythm for all musicians, enter in sync with another or stay independent. This tecnology is called "BrotherSync".