Matt Chiaravalle

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Producer / Engineer / Mixer

History: Matt Chiaravalle could be one of New York's best kept secrets, steadily earning praise and credits working with everyone from legends to future stars. Matt has recorded and worked with Warren Zevon, Kittie, Jeffrey Gaines, the Spooks, Anton Fig, Joe Bonamassa & Christopher Walken. He earned his solid background first producing, mixing and engineering two albums for Ng Records - The Forty Fives' Get It Together and The Lower East Side Stitches' The Lower East Side.

As a musician, Matt played lead guitar for the legendary New York City rock band The Phoids. Signing with Ng Records in November of 1994, the group recorded their full-length debut just one month later. The album, mushyheadedgoogoomouth, was released in April 1995, as was a video for the track "Lil' Suzy." After touring behind the debut wrapped up, the Phoids wrote and recorded their second album, Marianne Doesn't Know Yet. For their third album, the band enlisted producer Nico Bolas (Keith Richards, Neil Young, etc.), and recorded in a rural Massachusetts studio. The resulting self-titled album (which was far more experimental than the other two) was released in April 1998, and proved to be their best yet.

Recently Matt engineered eight tracks on Warren Zevon's My Ride is Here, mixing and engineering for both Kittie and the Spooks, mixing three tracks on the Josh Joplin Group's Useful Music and engineering and editing for Spacehog.

Current Credits: Mixing, producing and engineering on Joe Bonamassa's upcoming Summer 2002 album So It's Like That. Matt also produced, engineered and mixed Crossbreeed's entire album Synthetic Division. Currently Matt is in the studio recording two debut EPs for Connecticut based PILE and New York City based rockers Panda.

Contact: Chris Winfield
Spike Recording - 19 Clinton Street * New York, NY 10002
Phone: (917) 541-1213 * Fax: (212) 414-323
www.spikerecording.com