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We inhabit a space somewhere on the outskirts of avant-jazz and punk rock, Dogs h8 Rats are genre defying, and full of surprises. The music is born of improvisational performances so with a little luck you'll catch the "mistakes and imperfections" now and then, or as Miles Davis once said "Don't fear mistakes, there are none" and that ethos is in clear evidence within the music of Dh8R's. The core of Dh8R's is made up of Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes who collaborate with friends old and new."

❤️ Thank you for buying music from independent artists! We need to pay our rent and electricity bills, feed our cats, buy food, car insurance, and all that other stuff too...You can buy our music on Bandcamp.

Not on soundcloud as much, music on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4XdfvJDno

Matthew Golombisky is a USA-born, Buenos Aires-living acoustic & electric bassist, composer, improviser, conductor, and educator who also wears many hats like the director/founder of Chicago-based independent record label ears&eyes Records, conductor & artistic director of youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear, in Avellaneda, Argentina, curriculum developer, teaching artist and board member of 501(C)3 non-profit Institute for Creative Music and in the past has taught in schools such as SPACE, Mynah Music, Hilldale, Asheville Music schools, stage managed for Pitchfork Music Festival, Hideout Block Party, The Swell Season, Peter, Bjørn & John, DJ-ed/produced radio for WNUR 89.3FM, curated an annual ears&eyes Festivals, ideated for Clorox, and wrote, composed and directed musical theatre for Bizzo!. 

Matthew has lived and been active in music, festival, and film scenes in the Bay Area, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires, New York state, and Asheville NC, as well as toured the USA and Europe with bands such as IfCM, NOMO, Zing!, Jhelisa, GKduo, WATIV, QMRplus, more. 

Recently, AllAboutJazz and writer Jakob Baekgaard recently called Matthew a modern “renaissance man” (the article has more than 15,000 views/reads). He is a forward moving, fast acting, and busy artist. Between his acoustic/electric bass performing, commissioned compositions (including his work on Australian singer/songwriter Via Tania’s latest album, featuring his Tomorrow Music Orchestra, his film scoring contributions to Argentine director Alejo Domínguez’s feature film, La Soñada, or creating improvisation teaching supplements for the Institute for Creative Music), directing, filming and editing music videos and/or release trailers (ie. Nate Lepine, TMO, Quintopus, Matija Dedic, blink.), creating layout design work and/or photography for websites and albums (e&e.com, Matija Dedic, Hood Smoke, Pedway, Quintopus), conducting, directing and composing for at-risk youth orchestra, Orquesta Creer Es Crear in Argentina where they performed in the tango-famed Teatro Roma, founding/directing Chicago-based indie label, ears&eyes Records (2017 marks ten years), and now releasing his newest double EP cassette, Cuentos Vol. 1 & 2, just maybe he can back AllAboutJazz’s forceful claim.

Matthew's undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville led to a B.A. in Jazz Studies/Bass Performance with an emphasis on 20th Century Classical music & theory, while earning the Distinction in Music Award, and masters studies to a M.M. in (classical) Composition from the University of New Orleans after a brief stint at Northwestern University after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in August 2005.

Matthew’s discography includes over 50 recordings featuring his performance, compositions, conducting, film scoring, artwork/design, photography, and/or production.

Experiential music label releases fresh aural experiments! Chicago born, New Orleans roots, New York, Bay Area & Buenos Aires branches.

ears&eyes Records director/founder Matthew Golombisky has put together a team of creative, resourceful, and social media gurus to help artists outside of the ears&eyes roster to reach their maximum potential press/radio-wise. Introducing: Thirsty Robot Media - an artist-driven agency that aims to promote fresh and creative artists.

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