Our second live session on a thursday afternoon in October 2015.
a lot of melody came seeping in, especially by the piano and the acoustic bass... ohh well, enjoy

MATJAMI 2nd live session - October 2015

We recorded the beat of our big Gong into the loopstation, and the rest sort of happend by itself one fine October afternoon.

See 'Space between the Notes' for the story on the static noise!

Gong Song - ghö ông

Also recorded in the same session as Gong Song in October 2015, this time it started with the drone of the UDU (a clay vase with a hole in the belly - East Africa, like a ghatham - south India). Acoustic bass brutally mixed to the front... like you can feel its breath!

Udu Clouds

Finally, number three in the october 2015 session... 
The qoute actually says it all what it is we are trying to do... and then we go ahead and fill it all up! 
ArrrGGGHHHH, keep on trying!!!

(btw: the crackling noise is a mismatch between recording soft- and harware. But we don't think we want to re-take the moment we captured, so just pretend it is an old vinyl record you borrowed from your parents, and which they have been playing too much in the old days)

It's The Space Between The Notes

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