Their 1st album released in 1977 on Spotlite Records label, the free jazz quartet led by Prˇvost on drums, Geoff Hawkins on tenor saxophone, Gerry Gold on trumpet & flugelhorn, and Marcio Mattos on double bass, released two live albums on the Matchless label before disbanding; this live album from Cata OTO in London in 2020 reunites the band for a solid concert 42 years after.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: UK Packaging: Digipack Reunion concert of Eddie Prevost's 1970s band at Cafe OTO, London,17th February, 2020.
"More thank any other music I know of, improvisation puts the musician at the heart of the matter. Face on and with no time for premeditated artifice: technique, dialogue and heurism are put to a fiery test in performance. And, for a musician to comment upon the aesthetic implications of this work also seems to be a dangerous activity. But I for one (even if from time to time I am roved wrong) enjoy the skirmish." - Eddie Prévost, March 1993.
"Eddie Prévost began his life in music as a jazz drummer. A recurring interest in this form has been maintained, although always with an experimental ethos. Along the way he has maintained his fifty-year plus experimental credentials with AMM and numerous other improvisation projects, including his now twenty-year long weekly workshop. But drumming has generally been backgrounded to his experimental percussion work. More though, is to be expected of his drumming in 2020 on forthcoming multi-CD album: The Unexpected Alchemy. A part of this Krakow festival recording features the drums and saxophone trio of Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake, and Eddie Prévost. His most recent released recordings include AMM's: An Unintended Legacy, and a duo with John Butcher - Visionary Fantasies, both on Matchless Recordings. Also, a solo percussion LP on the Earshots label called Matching Mix. Later, in 2020 he meets with Jason Yarde and Nathan Moore, while in March concerts and recording will hear him drumming with US guitarist Henry Kaiser and saxophonist Binker Golding.
And, early 2020 should see the publication of his fourth book: An Uncommon Music for the Common Man: a polemical memoir.
Since coming to London in the early 70's Marcio Mattos has performed, recorded and broadcast both in Britain and abroad with most exponents of the Improvised Music world: Evan Parker, John Stevens, John Surman, Roswell Rudd, Dewey Redman, Roscoe Mitchell and Marylin Crispell amongst many others.
He has also worked with the dance companies Ballet Rambert and The Extemporary Dance Theatre Company as well as electro-acoustic music groups such as the West Square Electronic Music Ensemble, where he developed his own electronic treatment of the double bass and cello both in recording and live performance. It was at West Square he started working with Philipp Wachsmann and Ian Brighton initially, in the trio BM&W and then later, with the addition of percussionist Trevor Taylor, the quartet String Thing.
Such is the diversity of his playing, this highly "in demand" musician was also in many of the late Elton Dean formations, as well as being a long-standing member of numerous Eddie Prevost ensembles. His capability, attitude and flexibility led to his involvement in various international projects, mainly in Europe, including the "Bardo State Orchestra" - a project with Tibetan monks and Jim Dvorak, various projects with Georg Graewe, Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra, "AXON" with Phil Minton/ Fred van Hove and Martin Blume and "LINES" with Phil Wachsmann/ Jim Denley/ Martin Blume and Axel Dorner.
His current projects include, a duo with Shakuhachi player Shiku Yano, the string quartet "Gocce Stellari" with Charlotte Hug, John Edwards and Phil Wachsmann and 'ABAETETUBA' with Panda Gianfratti, Thomas Rohrer and Rodrigo Montoya as well as his continued involvement as a permanent member of 'LIO', the London Improviser's Orchestra.
Marcio Mattos is a much travelled and experienced improviser who can readily adapt and excel in every musical environment both on Double Bass and Cello. His "success", in this respect, is primarily due to the high level of commitment he makes in every situation faced. His presence can be heard in very many released CD's and especially in his latest solo recordings, "SOL[os]' (EMANEM 5035)"