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Matador José

About Me

Matador José is a musical solo project that I have aside of my other band Le Futur Pompiste.

Releases:

Cloudberry 033 - Matador José

released September 1st 2007

1. Within A Dream
2. Still It's There
3. I Sure Will Miss You

Available for US $5 incl. shipping from Cloudberry Records

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/24/2006
Band Members: Axel Ekström: Computer, bass, guitars, vocals, keyboards.

When I one day will perform live, It'll possibly be with help from Ville Hopponen, Johann Höglund and Janne Koskinen. I won't make it on my own.
Influences: 60's stuff, indiepop, Italodisco, Sarah Records (The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day, Brighter, Heavenly, The Springfields etc), Trembling Blue Stars, Roger Nichols, Sagittarius, Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood, The Association, Margo Guryan, My Favorite, New Order, Harper Lee, Pink Floyd, St. Etienne, The Radio Department and many more.
Sounds Like: Hopefully not too much like a bad copy of any of the bands mentioned above.
Record Label: Cloudberry Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Matador José on top list!

I was very happy to find out that a song of mine, namely "Hope I'll Never Break Your Heart" made it to 39th on Vesa Lautamäkis list of best songs of 2007 on the Finnish pop site One Chord to Anot...
Posted by Matador José on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:54:00 PST

live group and single

My brother Einar, who played the keyboards at the few Matador Jose rehearsals, is moving away from Helsinki and Finland in a few weeks. This leaves us in a situation where we have to find someone new ...
Posted by Matador José on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:45:00 PST

More good news!

I got an e-mail today from Svenska Kulturfonden, where it said that I will get 1.000 euros for the recording a Matador José release. I'm not exactly sure how I'll use the money but probably I will do ...
Posted by Matador José on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:02:00 PST

Matador José 3" cd

I have some good news I want to share! The newly started Cloudberry Records have announced willingness of releasing a 3" cd-single with 3 Matador José songs. This is, of course, something that I'm ver...
Posted by Matador José on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:29:00 PST

"new" song

Yes, the subject says it. I've uploaded another song. Anyway, this isn't new, I actually wrote it maybe 5 years ago, and re-recorded it now (unfortunately I think I've lost the old 4-track version, ha...
Posted by Matador José on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:02:00 PST

Oh, how I LOVE Fame!

I mentioned that a couple songs by the 60's singer Georgie Fame has had a great influence on me. These songs just are too good not to be mentioned in more detail. So, one is called "Peaceful" and...
Posted by Matador José on Sat, 27 May 2006 04:30:00 PST