A melodic, fingerstyle piece, looped over 3 tracks, and recorded live in a bedroom, with a mates USB dynamic mic into Audacity. 

Payday (1st scratch loop)

A cover of the 1975's song, Jesus Christ 2005, God bless America. 

Jesus Christ 2005, God bless America (the 1975 cover)

Callin, Andy and myself came up with this in 15 min at Andy's place one day. Callin Petzer (lyrics and vocals) Matt Allen (rhythm guitar) Andy Topping (lead guitar) 

sons and daughters.m4a

Milan's song, re-imagined collaboratively with Rich & Son.



CUM.m4a

wet dog 25 Dec 2020.m4a

Matthew Allen (rythm guitar)
Chelsea Wintle (vocals, lyrics)
Andrew Topping (lead guitar)

A rough version of a track, based off of guitarist and writer; Matt's guitar idea. Vocalist Chelsea had a previously written set of lyrics, that she adapted for the  guitar melody.
Guitarist Andy, filled up the space and built up melodious structure on the fly, never to be remembered again.

We called ourselves Unknown Brother at the time writing, and have since parted ways.

This is one of of the finer examples of the chemistry the 3 of us shared.

Enjoy. 

Greatest Escape (first scratch, band writing session,  2019)

An original, written about no on in particular.

Guitar: Matt Allen
Lyrics and performance : Matt Allen

that girl and i.m4a

original written by matt Allen and kitty Kearney. 13th Jan 2022

ahead of you original matt and kitty

Recently scratched version, of a previously written piece.

Black Lung

scratched, solo life-take, of a song written about colleagues 

wild side scratch.mp3

Matthew Allen & Chelsea Wintle- waiting around (cover)

Milan and Matt's cover of Death Cab's "I will follow you" 

Matthew Allen - Ill follow you into the dark cover.m4a

A short rendition of Noel Gallagher's, "The Dying Of The Light", with Matt Allen on guitar and vocals, and Travis Muller on vocals. Recorded in umbilo, single take, via Android mobile microphone. 

Matthew Allen - the dying of the light, short version feat trav .m4a

Dinkelburg

rough song idea, uploaded for journalistic purposes. a melody written, originally, by my close friend, Callin Petzer. extrapolated by Matt , and soon to be reworked and uploaded ...

the squeeze (scratched song idea, 02/11/2022

a shortened rendition of a song by Zebra & Giraffe, arranged in DADGAD tuning.

Matthew Allen - long way down acoustic (quick version)

Music saved me. And this is my personal musical journal... 


It comprises some of my favourite, "bedroom, live-takes"; both solo, and with creative collaborations. Original pieces. cover renditions. And instrumental meanderings. 


I'm Matt. I'm from Durban, in South Africa, and I was born in 1993. My dad is a retired firefighter. And my mom is a nurse. 


Embedded within, rest the ideas I never thought good enough, the silly ideas that I'll never be satisfied with, and the scribblings of ideas that I'm proud of. 

m4113n

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