Matt Johnson - Mother's Day Proverb
Matt Johnson works with one of the most vibrant instruments, the piano, and his latest release, Mother’s Day Proverb, is all magic. This 12-minute ballad is amongst many of his explorations that explore different dimensions of the soul and the piano. His music is usually a babbling brook of sounds; it bounces and moves with grace, ease, and sharpness. This new release, however, is different; he has tried a new genre-bending exploration. While every song released is a yardstick of the learning and journey the artist is on, Mother’s Day Pride is most definitely a milestone in terms of emotional complexity. His style of music has consistently been grounded and slow, as if he has nothing to prove to anyone. Matt’s art is incomparable and not dependent on anything, as if it were a world of its own. While he has explored more classical forms, this takes a slightly contemporary route with the spoken word format. The more patient form of music adds more drama to the theater of Matt’s music. The words become stones and branches with the flow of the keys. A scene that constantly gets pulled up for the emotional complexity of a monologue that is well delivered by Toni Collette from Hereditary. Matt’s music also carries similar amounts of complexity and juxtapositions to add nuance to the ears. Man can try to create all the art in the world, but everything pales in comparison to the concept of birth by mothers entirely. Matt Johnson has created his own musical baby, Mother’s Day Proverb. It will be interesting to see what sort of journey this will take; he is bound to take us down the scenic route.
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