Matthew E. White
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Matthew E. White (born August 14, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, arranger, and organiser of Spacebomb Records in Richmond, Virginia.
Early life
White was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, and from the age of three to eight, he lived in Japan for a year before returning to the United States. During senior year high school in Virginia Beach, White sang in a band with Natalie Prass before heading to Richmond, Virginia, to study jazz at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Following graduation, White remained in Richmond and formed the Patchwork Collective in 2005 with the intention of bringing experimental music together regardless of genre. The group mainly concentrated on staging a diverse range of live performances, including Jandek, who contacted the Patchwork Collective in 2007 to produce a rare US show at Richmond's Firehouse.
Career
White founded Fight the Big Bull, a Richmond, Virginia-based improvisive jazz ensemble with two of their 2010 recordings ranked for NPR's best of the year lists. The band's original lineup, dubbed simply Fight the Bull, featured drummer Pinson Chanselle and trombonist Bryan Hooten. Following a 10-day stay in Richmond, the group was later expanded to eight players and collaborated with Chicago saxophonist Ken Vandermark, and in 2010 launched the album All is Gladness in the United Kingdom by NYC-based slide trumpeter and composer Steven Bernstein. They also collaborated with alternative folk singer David Karsten Daniels, with White arranging the setting for his critically acclaimed 2010 Thoreau project I Mean to Live Here Still. The New York Times covered Daniels' appearance at the La Poisson Rouge in New York.
In a concert featuring the band's support for Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Sharon Van Etten, and members of Megafaun, White and Fight the Big Bull provided the music for Duke University's 2011 tribute to Alan Lomax's "Sound of the South" field recordings.
In August 2012, White's debut album Big Inner, which the New York Times described as "a striking pop-gospel record that hits extremes of the mood spectrum." Big Inner debuted at #19 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart in 2012, and a Consequence of Sound Rookie of the Year in 2012, and a Best New Act of 2012, and a Celebrity of Sound Rookie of the Year, 2012, and a Best New Act of the Year by the end of 2012, and a Consequence of Sound Rookie of the Year, and a Friend of the Year. Following the album's initial appearance via Spacebomb White, Domino signed the album in January 2013 and was dubbed "one of the best albums of modern Americana" by Uncut magazine.
After two years of extensive headline touring, including festival appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude, Roskilde, Primavera Sound, and Shepherd's Bush Empire White, his sophomore album Fresh Blood debuted on Domino in March 2015. On the Late Show with David Letterman in late March 2015, White made his national television debut on his album "Rock and Roll is Cold." The album reached a peak of 41 on the UK Album Charts, with generally favorable feedback, with a Metacritic score of 80 on Metacritic.
On Lauren Laverne's BBC Radio 6 Music breakfast show along with the debut of the album's first single "Genuine Hesitation," K Bay, White's third album, was revealed.
White, alongside English singer and songwriter Flo Morrissey, released Gentlewoman, a collection of tracks by artists such as Frank Ocean, the Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, James Blake, and the Bee Gees in January 2017. White in Richmond, Virginia, was recorded by White in Richmond, Virginia, and Glassnote Records issued it. On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the pair performed Grease on The Late Show Before appearing at concerts in New York, London, Paris, and Richmond, Virginia, the pair performed the album live four times.
Between releasing Natalie Prass' 2015 self-titled debut album for Spacebomb, Pitchfork's 8.4 and Best New Music, and her follow-up The Future and the Past for ATO Records, the pair collaborated on the single Cool Out, which was released on Record Store Day 2016 and gained attention when it appeared in the closing scene of Netflix's "I've Loved Before" film.
White joined up with American visual artists and singer Lonnie Holley in August 2015 to produce Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection after meeting Queen Elizabeth Hall at David Byrne's Meltdown Festival. In 2021, Spacebomb and Jagjawar released the album.