INTERVIEW: Matt Brouwer B Sides Himself
December 29th, 2006 |
Interviews | Source: Suite101 (78)
Matt Brouwer continues his deeply expressive songwriting on his new albums, “Unlearning” and “B-Sides Recordings, Vol. 1.” We were eager to hear the stories behind them.
Suite: “The B-Sides Recording Vol. 1” has a nice mix of older and newer material. What is it you enjoy most about the older material? Matt: What I love when I hear those older recordings is remembering how pure and simple the process was back then. I was making music with some friends in Canada at the time and we never considered marketing that music. It was simply done to share with our friends in college. There was a very clear purpose and that had nothing to do with an individual agenda—it was great to be a part of that sense of creative community. Those songs take me back and remind me of what it was that inspired me to do this in the first place. […read more]



