Matt Chamberlain

Drummer, songwriter, and maker Matt Chamberlain can be an in-demand performer and studio room musician whose eclectic abilities have discovered him employed in various styles from rock and roll to classical, jazz, as well as the avant-garde. Blessed in San Pedro, California in 1967, Chamberlain initial started playing drums at age group ten and continuing with serious personal research into his teenagers. After senior high school, he went to the esteemed North Texas Condition University music plan on the scholarship. Nevertheless, he fell out ahead of graduating to pursue functionality opportunities. Chamberlain’s initial job discovered him using local Denton, Tx music group Ten Hands before signing up for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians in 1988. He remained with Brickell before band’s initial break up in 1990 and made an appearance over the group’s sophomore record, Ghost of the Dog. Following that, Chamberlain became a member of fledgling Seattle rock and roll clothing Pearl Jam (departing before the recording of the breakthrough, Ten) and spent a period with G.E. Smith & the Sunday Night Live Music group from 1991 to 1992. After departing SNL, Chamberlain structured himself away from Seattle and embarked on a successful career being a weapon for hire. He provides racked up an extraordinary set of credits showing up on albums with the Wallflowers, Tori Amos, Keith Urban, Elton John, Morrissey, and many more. Together with his freelance function, Chamberlain has held busy along with his very own tasks, including founding the genre-bending instrumental clothing Critters Buggin’ with saxophonist Skerik, bassist/reedman Brad Houser, and vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon. With Critters Buggin’, Chamberlain made an appearance on such albums as 1994’s Guest, 1998’s Bumpa, and 2005’s Monkeypot Merganzer. In 2005, he produced his single debut using the eponymous Matt Chamberlain record on Trey Spruance’s Internet of Mimicry label. Then joined guitarist Costs Frisell’s four-member collective Floratone, showing up over the group’s 2007 self-titled debut and 2012 follow-up, Floratone II. Chamberlain after that matched with pianist Brian Haas for the 2013 record Structures, which showcased the duo’s genre-straddling mixture of instrumental jazz, avant-garde traditional music, and experimental post-rock. In 2016, Chamberlain and Haas came back making use of their second cooperation, Prometheus Risen.