Born in Rome is a vocalist and graphic artist now resident in Berlin
He started his musical activities in the mid 80?s as a singer in several free form rock’n’roll bands as Dum Dum Power, Electric Citizens, Box of Surprises, I Tifoni, Feten7 and Minga.
In 1990 he was one of the founder members of the Burp Enterprise multimedia collective originally based in Florence. Still in full activity the collective then expanded internationally developing a musical label and publishing house called Burp Publications responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed projects from unprotected italian underground.
Mat Pogo, beside his path as a spontaneist songwriter, moved from avant experimental rock to more abstract material, and in 1995, together with percussionist/DJ Roberta WJM Andreucci and reed player Edoardo Ricci, he founded Jealousy Party. Still in activity JP is one of the most advanced musical units in Italy mixing with personal touch soul, improv, avant rock, noise and error music.
His solo set features his voice, a microphone and some electronic devices. He developed his own language as a vocalist using his experience as a rock singer, an improvisor and radio artist where music, sounds, anecdotic and narrative elements fuse constantly. Weird processed vocal eruptions, intense screams, occasional words, pitched mouth cavity noises and electronic textures melting together in a very expressive way and often with a delicate sense of humor.
Among many he performed with Jacopo Andreini, Paolo Cantù , Renato Cordovani, Carlo Actis Dato, John Dieterich, Francesco Donnini, Bruno Dorella, Luc Ex, Augusto Forti, Gi Gasparin, Gianni Gebbia, Stefano Giust, Xabier Iriondo, Roy Paci, Claudio Parodi, Jean Hervé Peron, Chad Popple, Ed Rodriguez, Michael Renkel, Eugenio Sanna, and Nicolas Wiese. And collaborated with theater/dance projects with italian company Kinkaleri and Dutch based coreographer Giulia Mureddu.
Other projects He’s currently involved are
abstract/ambient songwriting experiment PENATES
meta grind free core trio B UNIT together with sound artist JD Zazie and drummer Peter Schlewinski
Dj collective SISTEMI AUDIOFOBICI BURP
noise & rhythm unit POKEMACHINE together with multinstrumentalist Anders Hana
impro duo with Ignaz Schick
and dance piece Mighty MatPogo by Giulia Mureddu