Kalle Mattson

The pseudonym of Ottawa-based, Sault Ste. Marie-reared, Canadian vocalist/songwriter Kalle Wainio, Kalle Mattson started documenting his Bob Dylan, Wilco, and Weakerthans-inspired folk-rock tracks at age 17. He released his debut long-player, Whisper Bee, in ’09 2009, accompanied by the critically acclaimed, Howie Beck-mixed Anchors in 2011, the second option of which led to a set of North Ontario Music Honor wins for Recording of the entire year (Group) and Songwriter of the entire year. An EP, Lives among, found its way to 2012 and yielded two viral video clips in “Waterfalls” and “Solid as Thieves.” It had been adopted in 2014 by Mattson’s third full-length studio room recording, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Someday, The Moon Will Become Gold, that was influenced by his hometown within the Canadian/U.S. boundary and the loss of life of his mom five years previous. August 2015 noticed the discharge of a fresh EP, Avalanche, which Mattson referred to as a mini-LP regarding the twenty-something miasma of “panic, nostalgia, days gone by, the near future.”