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Louis Matute

CH

Guitar, compositions

Young promising guitarist from Geneva, Louis Matute is recognized for his qualities of perfomer and composer. Thanks to a pronounced taste for creation, he was recognized with the release of his last two albums "How Great This World Can be" (2020) and "Our Folklore" (2022) which earned him a great success in the press and various distinctions. After having scoured the Swiss festivals, he soon performed on the big stages of the Montreux Jazz Festival. His latest project named Louis Matute Large Ensemble, is a concept with variable geometry, a clever mix between current music, and popular Latin music, which leads us into a unique artistic landscape, where the cohesion between the harmony and the musicians is strong.

In 2019, he receives the Cully Jazz Festival prize, is part of the residency program of the Artists Associated with the Abri, and is the winner of the Jazz Contreband competition. He received also the 2022 ZKB Audience Jazz Award in Zürich, the Evidence Prize of the Académie du Jazz and the first place of the TSF Jazz 2022 prize list. An eclectic musician, he is a sideman for several projects with different styles. These collaborations have allowed him to perform on the most prestigious stages in Europe.

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Louis Matute Quartet

Louis Matute : guitar, compositions

Léon Phal : tenor saxophone

Virgile Rosselet : double bass

Nathan Vandenbulcke : drums

Louis Matute is one of those young musicians who has an appetite and envy overflowing with energy. Student of Wolfgang Muthspiel and Lionel Loueke, he leads since his twenty years his quartet through the Swiss jazz scenes taking avantage of his experiences and his meetings to feed his musical universe. The group is the result of the work of the guitarist’s compositions supported by three talented musicians, Leon Phal, Virgile Rosselet and Nathan Vandenbulcke. Space, interaction and sound are the essential attributes of the quartet’s music. In June 2019 Louis Matute received the Cully Special Jazz Prize for "the quality of his personal project , his professionalism and the potential of development on the Swiss and international scene.» In October 2019, the band won the Festival Jazz Contreband competition.

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Renaissance
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  • Kawira

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Press
Jazz News
« A Latin blues that will steal a smile or draw a tear, so much the compositions overflow of interior landscapes, of elegantly chosen voicings from which an impression is born, a scene, or even a whole world. »
David Koperhant
CultureJazz
« Despite his youth, Louis Matute has already made a name for himself in his native Switzerland, and it is more than likely that he will quickly go beyond the Swiss borders. »
Yves Dorison
Point Break
« If Jules Verne had chosen to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, Louis Matute did it in 12 sounds. »
Ellinor Bogdanic
MUST TSF JAZZ
« A skin-deep guitar with luminous compositions: the Lausanne jazz scene is sending us its new prodigy, haunted by Central America and Brazil, Europe and the Mediterranean. »
David Koperhant
Le Temps
« There is a fragile virtuosity in Louis Matute; this is what distinguishes his voice most clearly. »
Juliette de Banes Gardonne
Tribune de Genève
« Louis Matute is a Geneva-based representative of the electrified guitar. He has been involved in a number of large-scale projects, including his own quartet, which has been honored by Cully Jazz and Jazz Contreband. The sound is impeccable, the balance perfect and the compositions original. »
Fabrice Gottraux
Louis Matute Large Ensemble

Louis Matute : electric guitar & voice

Leon Phal : tenor saxophone

Virgile Rosselet : double bass

Nathan Vandenbulcke : drums

Zacharie Ksyk : trumpet

Andrew Audiger : piano

Louis Matute Large Ensemble is a project born with Our Folklore, Louis Matute's new album, to be released in May. Exploring diverse musical styles, "taking inspiration from vibrations located hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away [...], respecting the codes and values of the paths taken, mixing so that nothing takes over but so that the whole forms a whole", this is the project of this talented group, which they share with us with their new album. Far from proposing a uniform music, it is precisely the particularities of its musicians which make the force of this group, where each one completes himself and brings something precious. It is by this "total cohesion [that] each one can then shine like a soloist when the time comes. To express his culture, the one he brings to the septet. The one he has discovered and assimilated."

(Quotes: S. Veyssière, M. Yzquierdo)

Listen
song cover
Renaissance
00:00
00:00

  • Renaissance

  • Kawira

  • Alfaia

Videos
Photos
Press
Jazz News
« A Latin blues that will steal a smile or draw a tear, so much the compositions overflow of interior landscapes, of elegantly chosen voicings from which an impression is born, a scene, or even a whole world. »
David Koperhant
CultureJazz
« Despite his youth, Louis Matute has already made a name for himself in his native Switzerland, and it is more than likely that he will quickly go beyond the Swiss borders. »
Yves Dorison
Point Break
« If Jules Verne had chosen to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, Louis Matute did it in 12 sounds. »
Ellinor Bogdanic
MUST TSF JAZZ
« A skin-deep guitar with luminous compositions: the Lausanne jazz scene is sending us its new prodigy, haunted by Central America and Brazil, Europe and the Mediterranean. »
David Koperhant
Le Temps
« There is a fragile virtuosity in Louis Matute; this is what distinguishes his voice most clearly. »
Juliette de Banes Gardonne
Tribune de Genève
« Louis Matute is a Geneva-based representative of the electrified guitar. He has been involved in a number of large-scale projects, including his own quartet, which has been honored by Cully Jazz and Jazz Contreband. The sound is impeccable, the balance perfect and the compositions original. »
Fabrice Gottraux