Matt Walker – Dobro Nada *SIGNED COPIES*

Matt Walker’s everywhere these days. When he’s not playing with The Cruel Sea or touring duo gigs with Tex Perkins, he’s busy front manning for his band, Lost Ragas, who are due to release a new album soon. We’ve even been lucky enough to get another glimpse of his reunion of duo Matt Walker and Ashley Davies, which hit the charts in the early 2000s and scored an ARIA for the highly acclaimed album, ‘Soul Witness.

In his latest release, Dobro Nada, we drift along to a space which resides in the solitude of memories, the present landscape, space and time, allowing the listener imagination to play out the imagery to this benevolently inviting soundtrack.
In contrast to Matt Walker’s previous instrumental release, United States Of Alpho (2022) where the production aesthetic positioned the listener to experience a live recording of the performance in real time, Dobro Nada creates a more ethereal and orchestrated work. Walker’s slide Dobro guitar weaves recurring themes and conversational lines between unexpected shifts of cascading synthesizers, percussion and voice.

‘I felt it was time to dust off my old Dobro’, Walker explains. ‘I started playing it again and when I started digging around, I found I was drawn to the way it sat against new ideas I was writing on synth. While one instrument felt real and as earthy as a handful of dirt, the other held a more untethered quality that brought an external element to the music’.