Milo's Press Kit

ARTIST INFORMATION

Instrumentation


Milo Matthews: Bass, looping,

acoustic guitar.
Any good percussionist I can find.
Occasional flute, keyboard, or guitarist.

Biography

My Dad was a professional  musician for most of his young adulthood. He tried everything to get me to play something, but the spark never ignited, until that fatefull day I heard the band "Rush."  I ran home and told my dad I wanted to play bass, which my dad's instrument of choice until he switched to guitar later on in his career.

I learned every single song they had, but the funny thing was that I was raised on R&B and definitely on the side of disco back in the music wars. After a few Rush cover bands and sorry attempts to start one of my own, I started to travel. After discovering I was a Gypsy, having numerous adventures abroad, I returned to my home of Boston, Mass.

There I was introduced to the subway and street busking music scene. I first went down there with a acoustic guitar thinking "what could I possibly do with just a bass and nothing else?" Then a friend gave me a delay pedal, and like the day of discovering Rush, I discovered my own voice:  My own style of playing the bass.  After learning how to use the delay pedal, I developed a kind of  Pink Floyd sound with a New Age twist.  I was a busker in the subways of Boston on and off for twenty years.  I spent my early twenties in musical bliss.

The Gypsy in me was flaring up so I traveled around the US until I arrived in Seattle, WA, where I sharpened my skills and where, for the first time, I played with bands writing original music. Then it happened. Yes, big rays of light started flying all over the place, and there in the music store I found MY next level of music---The Boomerrang.  Since then, nothing has been the same.  My playing has elevated ten fold.  I went on to do more traveling and to be in more bands.  Now what has become of me??? I live in Alaska which is the my home base I come back to in between my travels abroad.

A documentary has been made about me being a subway musician. If you would like to know more about me or hear more samples of my music, go to www.lovelifemusic.com.

Website

http://www.lovelifemusic.com

Discography

Melting point---1985
Plain and Simple---1989
Milo (debut)----2000
Inbound Boomerang---2003
Milo---2005
Miles of Eva-----Coming Soon