11/17/11

Logical Drift with Music veteran writer, composer John Matarazzo

John Matazarro

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3-4 pm PST
LOGICAL DRIFT is comprised of music veteran writer, composer, producer and performer John Matarazzo, and legendary engineer and producer Logan Strand. As old friends in the music industry sharing their success together in their early career, they had reached an influential track record in the pop world, working alongside the likes of Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Ike & Tina Turner, and Sly & The Family Stone. Expanding their musical horizons, they began to strive in the electronica and world music genres. Matarazzo himself was fortunate to have worked with leading world artists, from Ravi Shankar and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, to Herbie Hancock and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry.

Formed in 2010, Logical Drift is more than two successful music industry veterans and musicians continuing to work together. Logical Drift is geared to produce a series of record releases, in which each release is specifically composed around a specific ancient cultural spiritual system, with a new age music twist; manifesting musical healing compositions that produce enlightenment, relaxation and tranquility. Logical Drift has begun to initiate a network of likeminded music therapy and musical healing practitioners and practices within the alternative education and new age community in order to support each other’s projects through music as a unification medium.

Sometimes it’s quite tempting to extract historical data from artist bios for a music review, because it’s just that good, and readers may get more than they expected, as in the case here. Music veteran writer, composer, producer and performer, John Matarazzo, has been accompanied by legendary engineer and producer Logan Strand to form LOGICAL DRIFT; a new project with a whole lot of history. Over the years, Matarazzo has worked on major records and performed with popular acts, where he was then led to work on more conscious and spiritually driven projects helping to create pioneering recordings of Ambient and Electronica music (John Zorn, Jah Wobble, Mick Harris and Buckethead).

Reaching success in this genre, Matarazzo then began to invite more established world music artists to work with him on a variety of projects (Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Herbie Hancock, Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Gamelan Of Bali, Lata Mangeshcar, The Monks Of Notre Dame, and Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery Tibet). With the world music genre working very well for Matarazzo, he then journeyed off to field recording and performance projects taking him to places as far away as Bali, Indonesia, Sumatra, Tibet, North Africa and Morocco, Mali and Thailand. Continuing his spiritual path, Matarazzo grew his interests into experimenting with psychological compositions using electronic music elements instituted by Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez; adapting them to create psychological dreamscapes and aural environments designed to evoke spiritual responses from the listener. Synthesizing sounds in acoustic laboratories Matarazzo was able to develop a palette of unique and emotionally resonant sounds from simple sine wave generators overlaying harmonic spectrums and resonating filters to create evocative and sensual aural landscapes and alternative worlds.

Combining his knowledge of ancient spiritual systems, psychoacoustics and aural imaging, he creates soundscapes that heighten the listeners’ sense of wellness and tranquility. Stimulating the Chakra portals; thereby carrying the listener on a journey toward greater awareness and aliveness. His aim is to create a music that will provide an important map for our wholeness and transformation, both personally and globally by opening the Chakra paths to enlightenment and integration.

Comprised of six thought provoking tracks, LOGICAL DRIFT represents the most recent incantation of the musical concepts and explorations of Matarazzo’s career in a community of ambient, world and new age music. Better said, the album notes tell us “From the ancient port of Joffa on the Mediterranean traveling east, across the windswept Judean Desert the weary caravan traveler comes to the legendary Oasis of En Gedi. Set on the banks of the Dead Sea; Covered in lush, hanging gardens, sparkling waterfalls and murmuring fountains, it is a place of relaxation and refreshment for body and spirit”. Just listening to inviting track titles as ‘Dead Sea Dawn’ and ‘Shenandoah Pslam’, I can hear a soothing, yet almost musical healing ailment that can move listeners on a psychological and spiritual

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