Once upon a time in Lausanne two guys met by chance, that doesn’t always act blindly, it appears. At the beginning this encounter was banal; one of the two musicians sees the other with a “The Who”
T-shirt. He may be an imitator, maybe he took this thing from his father wait and see… The dialogue begins and so their conversation leads them to…
Music, everywhere and at all times; starting then, for years to come, in class for example Matt and Math’s colleagues (and their teachers) were surprised to see the feet of the two fellows hammer and their lips twitch awkwardly. You see, they were very focused on reconstituting “Come Together, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, or Octopus’s Garden” of The Beatles in a rigorously faithful fashion to the original versions, their voices reproducing virtually the whole instrumentation, the feet being the rhythm section. The German classes were then dedicated to the first three Led Zep albums, French to Zappa (that took them two semesters and a half).
Let’s emphasize right away that if it can easily be conceived that a person can be locked inside himself, it is harder imaginable that two sensible-looking young men could set up a filter that lets them collect what they want from the world when they need it, or to recreate it at will.
Another example: the usual author of a “Travail de Maturité” in economics hands over, sensibly, a work of economics, the usual stuff, UBS, inflation, and so on… Matt and Math obtained, in this particular domain, a summa cum laude price for a musical creation, the rewriting of the original soundtrack of a TV series; Swiss school is still trying to get over it.
More seriously: these two have a dazzling musical culture, classic, jazz, pop, rock, and cinema as well. But no elitism: Kubric marries Abba and Mahler is the soundtrack to “Les Bronzés”. Beyond this knowledge and this memory there is the musical practice, relentless, at every free moment, they play, sing, record, mix, play, play, play, violin (sometimes wah-wah), guitar, keyboards, percussions, and learn to use a studio while others go to clubs.
Finally, and it can sometimes by annoying for their entourage that feels a bit lonely, Matt and Math get along too well, harmony doubled in complicity: it is fusion and fuses into creativity.
Translated from Pierre Faoro (in French) by A. Doerig
