Joe Matzzie

The short film Alter Ego has been accepted at the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Fest and screened on September 16 & 17, 2011. The film features an electronic score by Joe Matzzie.

The album Christmas at the Renaissance Fair is a huge success. Released in October 2011, the album spent 10 weeks (and counting) as the #1 top selling album in the Renaissance genre at CD Baby and rose to #8 among all holiday albums. Christianity Today magazine gave it 4 stars and called it “The best odd album I’ve heard in years.”
Joe Matzzie produced the album, arranging and re-imagining 14 classic holiday songs in a style that typifies the hybrid of sounds that one hears at Renaissance festivals, bringing together Medieval, traditional Celtic, Middle Eastern, and Renaissance dance music. Featured on the album are instruments as diverse as hurdy gurdy, hammered dulcimer, bladder pipe, sackbut, and lots of percussion. Christmas at the Renaissance Fair was released under the artist name of Moat Jumper, and plans are already underway for a regional tour in December 2012.

For more information check out the Moat Jumper website. www.moatjumper.com

The song Let’s Get Down And Dirty is featured in Turbo Pedalata which is an Italian training video on cycling, created by Davide Petucco. Joe composed and produced the song and it originally appeared on the album It’s All True. To read David’s blog on power-cycling (all in Italian), click here. http://www.ciclismopassione.com

Joe’s guitar playing has been making an ongoing appearance on the score of the hit web series Squatters, Score composed by Morgan Pearse. Watch it here

Two of Joe Matzzie’s compositions appear in the film Heads Or Tails, written and directed by Raenell Jones, which will be featured at the 2010 Kingdomwood Christian Film Festival in Lithonia Georgia.

Joe Matzzie recently complete original music to accompany the “Cloak and Dagger” portion of the Fantasy Craft Adventure Companion to be released in October 2010.  Thanks to Sonic Legends for making it happen.