About
Matt Lorenz's vision, manifest in The Suitcase Junket, developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in its imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in its thrift and self-reliance. What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears constant comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention.
While audiences are captivated by his solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in rural Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. He has been building a catalog, writing a world into existence. Solitary on stage and on the road, his mind is crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet's destruction and salvage. With this 2020 release, The End is New, Lorenz’s grand vision for the song overrides the how of it.
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"The Suitcase Junket is a master of musical imagination"
– NPR World Cafe
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"The overall sound lands somewhere between the Avett Brothers and early, dirty Black Keys.
There's a Tom Waits-vibe in the fuzzy-megaphone reverb mic, and something ancient, near
tribal, in his whistles and moans."
– The Boston Globe
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Shows
Contact
MANAGEMENT
Loudmouth Artist Management
Lynne Bertrand | lynne@loudmouthmgmt.com
LABEL
Renew Records / BMG
PUBLICITY
All Eyes Media
Jim Flammia | jim@alleyesmedia.com
Karen Wiessen | karen@alleyesmedia.com
RADIO
Coming soon…
BOOKING
East of the Mississippi
Brad Madison | Mongrel Music
brad@mongrelm.com
West of the Mississippi and Canada
Chris Faville | Mongrel Music
chris@mongrelm.com
Europe
Karen Proeme Productions
Contact
SAY HELLO
Matt Lorenz | The Suitcase Junket | thesuitcasejunket@makingwhatiwant.com
