Music for a Short Story
" ... but the rain did not really matter, as the colour and the smell of things got more intens. Not wanting to leave, hooked in the moment... Did it matter what would happen in time? I suppressed the questions of how and why; it would only spoil the experience...

'Music for a short story' is composed, recorded and produced bij Marcel Bode from MATJAMI. The main piano theme was composed bij Marcel Bode and Mariël van den Berg. (The picture is a photo made by Marcel from a series of abandoned wooden boats in Scotland)

Music for a Short Story

Music For A Short Story

MATJAMI: Acoustic-electronic soundscapes, deep beats, slow trance, empty space: meditation by listening and playing. 
Tip: Use good speakers or headphones to enjoy the rich, deep sounds and binaural recordings.

We three at MATJAMI (Marcel Bode, Tjalling de Leeuw, Mike de Leeuw) develop our sounds and grooves as we interact live, using our bronze, wooden and stringed instruments, (Balinese gamelan & gongs, bowls, Tibetan horns, Chinese guxing & gongs, Javanese kendang drums, timpani, beer bottles) with Native electronics, samples and live loops. The quality and the texture of our sounds are at least as important as the composition. 
We play our sessions 'on the fly', where one of us starts and the rest comes in at leisure... All you hear here was recorded live, with only some simple stereo and eq mixing afterwards.
We love to perform in open areas, theaters, level stage, and spaces with a special feel to them; a small audience is just as nice.
Recently we started collaborating with other audio-artists like VictorYibril, Fintan O'Brien and Phlip Smith (G.A.), Miraela, and Augenmerk, combining their very different music styles, field recordings and soundscapes with our beats and sounds. 
Connect at mike@branchingtree.com