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Wayside Days: MATTHÚ
MATTHU. Photo: Weston Rich.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Music from 2:15–3:00 p.m.
Outside the Art Preserve
Free
Kevin Matthew Bush, known by the stage name MATTHÚ, is an American musician, producer, and singer-songwriter from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Blending layered synthesizers and acoustic guitar and handmade percussion, MATTHÚ takes inspiration from folk, hip hop, and experimental electronic genres.
For Bush, his debut EP Montana is the product of “years and years of experimenting.” In an interview about the release of his debut EP, Montana, Bush said, “Montana is me exploring. I love trap music, but I’m not a rapper. I thought, ‘What if I make a trap beat, but instead play all the parts with real drums and somehow incorporate a ‘singer-songwriter’ song in there?” While those individual ingredients seem to clash on paper, Bush’s ear for production combined with his inarguable instrumental ability and surprisingly great voice (from the guy in Immortal Girlfriend who doesn’t sing) makes Montana an altogether outstanding EP that’s somehow expansive and deeply personal at once. “Montana—the state—is very vast and open. I took a trip there and the mountains reminded me how small we are, and how much there is to explore.”
-(Milwaukee Record, MATTHÚ explores acoustic and electronic expanses on outstanding debut EP, ‘Montana’)
This event is part of Wayside Days. Learn more here.
Wayside Days is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, Ruth Foundation for the Arts, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust, Kohler Foundation, Inc., and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
