"Solos presents a dark world of innovative sounds, an avant-garde/noise/classical-folk-jazz-like hybrid. Strange yet accessible music that seems just a beginning of an exploration of unlimited possibilities."
“…their unconventional string quartet forms a liberating anarchic system, an elegant tangle of scratched and mangled strings, knotted into each other so that every gesture yanks their cacophonous swarm into a new shape.
— Jeremy Shatan for Anearful (review of Gran Sasso, 2020)
"For where the electric and acoustic guitar is today in New Music-Improv worlds, you can give yourself a real leg up on things by listening to the music of Matteo Liberatore, in a recent album simply entitled Solos ...Beyond and aside from the rather ingenious ways the guitar is rethought with the various extended techniques of which Matteo makes very creative use, the music fascinates on its own. Bravo!"
““Barrea” re-establishes the project's experimental tone in presenting bowed creakings that suggest the wails of anguished ghouls; even more stripped down is “Alberto,” whose strum-accented scrapes and rustlings call to mind ghost towns collapsing into ruins, and “Fisherman,” whose bowed expressions sound like whistlings across a grave or two.” — Textura (review of Solos, Innova 2018)
“Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore turn their respective instruments of voice and guitar into something truly interdimensional on Neutral Love, creating a suite of warped vistas which seem to burrow in and out of the unconscious. […] There’s a stunning virtuosity on display from Kidambi and Liberatore, but it’s directed towards shared world, rather than ego-building.”
Matteo Liberatore only came to know the compositions right before this recording was realized. Having that in mind one can say that the two musicians developed a close interaction but, maybe something more important and powerful I dare say. A complete and strong communion.’
“It’s absolutely enveloping, gorgeous, strung out with dissonance and texture and a silence all the more eloquent for the occasional disruption and distortion […] No images race across the inside of my mind as this sound lingers: no images need to. It is enough to be surrounded by it in itself.”
“The tart alliance formed by JoeMorris and MatteoLiberatore brought an atonal, highly rhythmic electro-acoustic setting pelted with extended techniques. Electronic drones, percussive wallops, and synth-like ostinatos served to enrich this moody, non-stop adventure.” — Filipe Freitas review of the 2018 Alternative Guitar Summit for Jazz Trail
