Our Little Secret

Gave up on new song. This was recorded 20 years after I wrote it on the South Coast of S. Africa May 2014. it is my favourite song of mine

Lonesome Hero

Holiday Cake 8 Feb

Terror sung live and played to backtrack 14/6/16

Terror 3

I've reworked this track off the new album 'terrorlove' for Oppikoppi Unsea 2016 2016. And it is going to sound something like this... nice and dark for that stormy unsea...

Terror June 2016

Matthew van der Want's cover of Chris Letcher's song lenscap. Made with love and wine on 1 October 2016.

Lenscap

Comeback

Chris Letcher and Victoria Hume did lovely things to a demo of a new song I sent them. Headphone listening...

Come Back (draft with Chris Letcher and Victoria Hume)

Down and out by Matthew van der Want. New song off forthcoming album

Down and out

Could this one be the first single from my new album?

Hot and cold

Dream of you

Track off 'Outstanding' by Matthew van der Want

Since I learned to speak

I heard Jennifer Ferguson singing this tune called "Dying of Love" in Grahamstown in [1995?]. I think she said the melody was a Portuguese folk song. It sounded to me a lot like Oranges and Lemons. I put these words to it after hearing that someone I had loved had died horribly. This recording was on a solo album I put out in 2001 called "play my way".

Play my Way

Dying of Love

This was one of the best things Chris Letcher and I did together. I wrote this song "casual killing" while living through some unhappiness working at a big corporate law firm in Johannesburg in 2004/2005. I recorded the basics of the track  in Jhb and sent it off sadly to Chris, who was based in London at the time. Chris worked on it and sent it back to me. What he did made me happy. We then spent a bit of time fixing it up together before setting out on a fun tour of SA some time in September 2005. I resigned with gusto by fax when we were about half way through the tour, and we played this song with feeling every night.

Summer Romance '87

Casual Killing

Outstanding

Turn On You

Rough demo of a new song I wrote in a freezing magaliesburg flatlet over the weekend of 9 June 2012

Don't believe you love me

off "casual killing" - title track (2006)

Feelings scat

Matthew van der Want is a South African singer and songwriter.

Matthew Van der Want

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