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Fans never know what to expect with the multi-talented concept artist Cash Mattock, whose style has best been described as “Paul McCartney meets Motorhead.” His hard rock sound stands tall even without the added spice of bizarre timing changes, surreal guitar solos, and other eclectic epiphanies.
"Enigmatic Mattock Cashes In On Success of ‘Sexy Sleaze’ with Surreal Supplement"
The Second Coming of Cash Mattock may be half the size but it’s twice as intriguing.
The enigmatic Cash, a veteran of the Rochester music scene, expects the release of a limited release EP by the end of the year to complement his debut concept album from 2005, Sexy 21st Century Sleaze. The catchy timing changes, eclectic mix of styles, Pink Floyd-like background sounds, weird sampling, surreal guitar solos and other spellbinding novelties fans have come to expect from Mattock will be back, but with a different edge.
“I think the new sound is more like Pixies meet D.J. Shadow,” Mattock said. The feel of the EP will differ somewhat from the “Paul McCartney meets Motorhead” tag sound engineer and co-producer Chris Cimicata used to describe the first CD.
The new music will be interspersed with more samples of ordinary everyday noises that are pertinent to the storyline of the concept album, in the manner of a soundtrack, according to Mattock.
“It’s basically the missing glue for Sexy 21st Century Sleaze,” he said. That glue won’t stick around forever though because only a limited number of EPs will be issued, which is why he is urging fans to reserve a copy at the CMI Records (Cash Mattock Inc.) website, www.cmirecords.com, as soon as possible.
Technologically the EP will be far more advanced the first, thanks to the completion of the state-of-the-art analog and digital equipment available at the newly-built CMI Studios. “It’s probably ten times better than what we had available for the first album,” Mattock said.
“They’re just that crazy,” he said of some of the new songs. “It would have been difficult for me to record them without the new technology.”
The tunes on Sexy 21st Century Sleaze tell the critical story of what Mattock witnessed in one night out in the rave scene, in sequence. It features several characters and subplots, including the up-and-down love story between Cash and a former girlfriend. Four of the songs written by Mattock for the EP occupy different points in the storyline, beginning with We’ll Take Your Kids, which depicts the subtle ways in which unwholesome social influences draw the partygoers away from their parents under the guise of helping them.
You’re a Woman, I’m a Man is a musical dialogue that sketches the personalities of Cash and his former girlfriend in better detail. In This is My Town, a character who overdoses in the course of the 2005 CD goes into a final downward spiral that is depicted by the use of noises like ambulance tires screeching to a halt and sound of his respirator. In I Need Your Strength the overdose leads him into a coma. This pair of songs fills a gap in the storyline between the second-to-last tune on Sexy 21st Century Sleaze and the final track.
The EP is also expected to feature covers of one or two songs from Beck’s album One Foot in the Grave and Harry Nilsson’s Jump into the Fire. Mattock is also busy securing permission to cover a tune by an independent Nashville songwriter who wrote material for various prominent artists in the past.
Some of Cash’s musical comrades from the first album are expected to return for the recording sessions, such as multi-instrumentalist Chris Cimicata (the man most responsible for the act’s mesmerizing guitar solos), bassist Chris Kemp, drummer Ryan Kemp and John Chajka of The Grinders fame. Cash is talking with booking agents and settling on a lineup of musicians for a live tour that is expected to begin on the East Coast later this year in support of Sexy 21st Century Sleaze and the as-yet-untitled EP.
Cash said he opted for a smaller scale recording project because of the obligations of the planned tour and the four albums he is set to produce this year. CMI Records (Cash Mattock Inc) is expected to release a CD by Slur Blown in the spring, followed by an album by El Destructo LTD, a new CD by The Moviees in the summer and the release of the EP by the end of the year.
Mattock was quite pleased with the reception that Sexy 21st Century Sleaze received internationally and expects to use it as a springboard for further projects.
“It set a good platform for further endeavors,” he said.
One of those ventures is intended to be the capstone of the entire Sexy 21st Century Sleaze project: a full-length DVD of the storyline acted out silently on video packaged together with the first CD and the EP. Mattock is currently working to secure funding for the project and preparing to pitch it to studios. He hasn’t set any time constraints for production but is aiming for 2007.
After that, the music of the unfathomable Cash may take yet another ground-breaking turn.
“This is the end of my sophisticated electronic rock phase. After this I’m done with it for at least another album,” Mattock said.
That doesn’t mean he won’t be pushing the limits of music past their known boundaries. Mattock’s next album is tentatively titled Wood, Strings, and Skin – because the only metal to be heard on the unplugged recording will be guitar strings. Not even cymbals will be allowed, the mysterious Mattock said with a typically sly chuckle.
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