SUMMERSETS IS THE DUO COLLABORATION BETWEEN KALLE MATTSON AND ANDREW SOWKA
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Picture this: two people meet in small town northern Ontario on a Saturday night as summer is coming to an end. A chance encounter that eventually will define the narrative of the rest of their lives. That is both the story that runs through the music of summersets, and also how the new duo’s members, Kalle Mattson and Andrew Sowka, met growing up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Today, the pair release their first single, “anywhere you go”. “I first started writing this project as an exercise in writing character-based songs, specifically these two characters living in small-town Northern Ontario,” says Mattson. “The idea behind ‘anywhere you go’ was to have it be an introduction into their backstory and how badly they want to change their lives and their surroundings.”
“At its core it’s just a love song about escape,” says Sowka. “It weaves in and out of daydreaming both lyrically and musically, really taking influence from Kodachrome meets Born To Run.”
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The 29-year old Mattson first gained public attention by writing the Polaris Music Prize nominated 2014 album Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, that dealt with the death of his mother who passed when he was 16 years old. It was during the recording and touring of that album that Mattson and Sowka began their longtime musical collaboration. “The whole summersets project came from a place of desperation and inspiration. After my last solo album, I felt so beaten down by the music industry, but once Andrew and I began writing and singing these songs together I was so energized by the process, making music was fun again.”
Watch for more new music from summersets in the near future.
