Stories From The Watercooler

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Stories From The Watercooler
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12 tracks, 44:58
Release Date
30 May 2004
There are a lot of stories you can tell about John Matthias. We could paint him as a mad scientist, a contemporary composer, a violin prodigy, and on and on. But John Matthias is more interested in talking about other people than he is about himself. “Stories From The Watercooler” is a suite of twelve short stories rendered in song form. Their basic template is classic folk-rock – great song-writing, acoustic and electric guitar, strings. But within this seemingly simple formula John writes about everything from the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, to fake alternative therapies,… read more
There are a lot of stories you can tell about John Matthias. We could paint him as a mad scientist, a contemporary composer, a violin prodigy, and on… read more
There are a lot of stories you can tell about John Matthias. We could paint him as a mad scientist, a contemporary composer, a violin prodigy, and on and on. But John Matthias is more in… read more

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Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track Open
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 3:28 1,732 listeners
2 Play track Vipers' Nest
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 4:06 1,202 listeners
3 I will disappear
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 3:29 1,389 listeners
4 Play track Police Car
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 3:00 1,231 listeners
5 Play track Blind Lead the Blind
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 2:51 1,355 listeners
6 Play track Stockwell Road
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7 Play track Spinnaker
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 3:21 1,805 listeners
8 Stocktaking
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 3:19 1,007 listeners
9 Play track King of a Small Town
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 4:18 931 listeners
10 Play track Evermore
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 4:08 9,446 listeners
11 Play track It's not
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 2:36 920 listeners
12 Play track One sunny morning in the no-fly zone
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 4:25 1,340 listeners

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John Matthias is an award winning musician and composer. He has released three albums; Smalltown, Shining (2001) on Accidental Records, Stories from the Watercooler (2008) on Counter Records (a sublabel of Ninja Tune), and Cortical Songs with Nick Ryan (2008) on the Nonclassical label, a work for string orchestra and solo violin which includes remixes by Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Simon Tong (Gorillaz / The Good The Bad & The Queen), Simon Jones & Nick McCabe (The Verve), John Maclean (The Beta Band / The Aliens), Gabriel Prokofiev, and others. He also plays in the band Derail… read more
John Matthias is an award winning musician and composer. He has released three albums; Smalltown, Shining (2001) on Accidental Records, Stories from the Watercooler (2008) on Counter Recor… read more
John Matthias is an award winning musician and composer. He has released three albums; Smalltown, Shining (2001) on Accidental Records, Stories from the Watercooler (2008) on Counter Records (a sublabel of Ninja Tune), and Cortical So… read more

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