Today on solipsistc NATION our guest is Saltillo’s Menton J. Matthews III. He’s just released Monocyte, Saltillo’s long awaited second album. Saltillo’s Monocyte is both an album and a comic book. The comic book was released by IDW and the album was released by Artoffact Records.
Jacek Kozlowski is the founder of Artoffact Records and his label was featured on solipsistc NATION‘s label showcase back in January. Jacek prepared a great mix with select tracks from his label and introduced me to Saltillo with two tracks that were gorgeous and mysterious and very, very dark.
Ganglion is Saltillo’s first album but I’d be hard pressed to say if one was better than the other. Their both beautiful and while Ganglion is more restrained it no less powerful than Monocyte. And Monocyte is very powerful—cinematic in scope chock full of cryptic dialogue, sound effects and the music, the beautiful and haunting music.
Menton J. Matthews III is one half of Saltillo and he joins us from his studio in Chicago to talk about both his new album and the comic book.
Join us again next week. We’ll do it all over again. But completely different.
- X:THC “Hide”
- Zeller “Asperitatis Texture”
- Saltillo “ABEO”
- Saltillo “The Opening”
- Interview with Menton J. Matthews III of Saltillo
- Saltillo “If Wishes were Catholics”
- Access To Arasaka “Sao”
- C.Db.Sn “Artificial Intelligence”
- Spyweirdos, John Mourjopoulos, Floros Floridis “The Letter After Omega”
- Steinbruchel “narrow”