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Unknown Elements "Joe Matera"

Australian singer/songwriter/instrumentalist and guitarist Joe Matera is a melodious troubadour, having amassed quite an impressive track record in his career. This includes playing guitar for famed British music legend Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel fame) to performing on the festival stages in Europe to scoring a Top 20 hit on Radio Berlin in Germany. His songs and music speak with authority and emotion straight from the heart.

Since 2011, he has recorded and released five albums and five EPs through various European record labels such as W.A.R Productions in Austria and RVPrecords in The Netherlands and tours Europe each year.

As a solo artist, he has performed live in concert supporting the likes of Australian music legends Mental As Anything, Brian Cadd and Russell Morris, American rocker Peter Criss (KISS), blues legends Canned Heat and Scottish 1970s tartan sensations, Bay City Rollers to name but a few.

His instrumental ‘Brick By Brick’ was voted #48 on the Top 100 Chilliest tracks of 2021 by Australian digital radio network SBS Chill Radio.

Once he was Australia’s ‘best kept secret’. Joe Matera, guitar-wielding troubadour whose musical prowess informed his secondary career, as a music journalist who could dig prodigiously beyond the norm.

I caught him performing, live almost ten years ago, locked into a chilly north of England circuit and displaying a professionalism that seemed beyond the grasp of the crowd. But there he as, a half a world away, pouring himself into a self-penned set of illuminating variation.

Since then, Joe’s career(s) has scattered gloriously; a succession of arresting singles and albums, performing alongside and collaborating with such a wide body of artists, from Steve Harley and Swedish hard rockers Rough Rockers to, vital to this release, Don Powell of Slade, who provided the all-important percussive hammer in Joe’s latest single release, ‘Inside Looking Out.’