Biography
Visual artist, sound designer, musician, label founder Ramuntcho Matta is a man of shifting, relentless talents. Diagnosed with autism at a young age, therapy based on yoga and music set him on a path, leading to learn from the likes of composer Cuarteto Cedrón.
Discovering avant-music at an early age, he moved to New York to study in the "Third Street School of Music", meeting John Cage and going on to work on projects with Laurie Anderson, Brion Gysin and Don Cherry.
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His architectural concepts applied to composition were explored on his 3 solo LPs from the 1980s. The middle of these, Écoute, is possibly his most cohesive, exploring the use of “extra-European musicians”, especially African and Brazilian percussion, jazz horn playing, as well as Uruguayan singer Elie Meideros.
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