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BUTCHIE’s EVERPRESENCE Brings Personal Themes Together
BUTCHIE’s EVERPRESENCE brings personal experiences together with cultural and environmental concerns, exploring themes including gaslighting, growth, unrequited desire and the loss of non-human life.
BUTCHIE is the work of Matthew Waldman, who works as an artist, poet, designer and educator. Waldman has lived in Tokyo since 2018 and continues to make music. Peter Cattermoul contributes all instrumentation and composition to the EVERPRESENCE project.
EVERPRESENCE brings personal experiences together with cultural and environmental concerns. The album addresses gaslighting, growth, unrequited desire and the loss of non-human life. It opens with Gaslight, a track that combines electronica and pop. BUTCHIE wrote Gaslight after ending a 24-year relationship.
Alabaster draws inspiration from Depeche Mode and Daft Punk. Icarus draws on BUTCHIE’s experience as a go-go dancer at venues such as Danceteria during his youth, while Urban Icon pays tribute to experiences in 1980s New York.
Drums of Disco addresses aging in the club scene and reworks a poem from the 1980s. Insect Apocalypse focuses on the quiet disappearance of smaller forms of life beyond bees.
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