SPILL VIDEO PREMIERE: JESSE MATAS – “WALKING HUMAN”

Jesse Matas – “Walking Human”

A Spill Exclusive Video Premiere

While drafting his debut solo album, Tamarock, Jesse Matas spent more time in a canoe than in a studio. He spent more time in silence in the bush. Then, over a week in December 2017, the album was recorded (mostly) live-off-the-floor in a small, warm studio in Winnipeg with some of the finest-natured humans in Canada. Tamarock is his first release since 2014, when his infamous band The Crooked Brothers released their third album, Thank You, I’m Sorry.

All the songs on Tamarock happen far from cities in woodlands and on lakes. Sonically, the album’s range is vast, but most of all, Tamarock sounds like where it came from… and that’s right where it takes the listener.

Artist Quote

“The song Walking Human contains some of the darkest, brightest, and most anomalous relationships I have witnessed between human and land. Three years after the song was written, it still gives me a lot to chew on.”

Jess Matas
Tamarock
(StoNote)
Release Date: November 21, 2018

Tamarock Track Listing

1. Tamarack (3:43)
2. Walking Human (4:40)
3. Hardline (4:13)
4. Before, We (6:58)
5. Sleep (1:32)
6. Monarch (3:08)
7. Peace River Song (3:52)
8. Rock and Sand (6:38)
9. The Myth of Forests (4:59)
10. Footpath (1:25)

Artist Links

Photo credit Adrienne Macdonald