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So Percussion & Matmos To Release Treasure State

May 4, 2010

Cantaloupe Music will release So Percussion and Matmos' Treasure State this summer. Long in the making, Treasure State is a visionary collaboration between So Percussion and the Baltimore based electronic duo Matmos.

Bridging the gap from the conservatory to the laptop screen, these groups share a love of propulsive musical experiment. The resulting collaborative album, Treasure State, is a checkerboard of Matmos and So Percussion compositions, but in each case these ensembles have reinforced each other's techniques and methodologies. The core of the record is a series of studies of the musical resources of everyday and not-so-everyday elemental materials: ceramic planters, pails of water, aluminum beer cans, cactus needles, cans of house paint. The result is a richly diverse yet highly listenable record that flows across a range of genres, sound sources, objects and styles to create an elemental American landscape.

Read more about the album here .

Treasure State will be available for digital download on June 8th, 2010 and physical copies of the album will be available July 13th, 2010. The groups will also be touring together this June.

Along with Treasure State, So Percussion will also be releasing Threads, a half-hour long "cantata" for percussion quartet in ten short movements, composed by Paul Lanksy.

For more information about So Percussion, Matmos, and Paul Lanksy:

• So Percussion on Cantaloupe
• Matmos' Website
• Information about Treasure State
• Paul Lanksy on Cantaloupe
• Information about Threads