Reverse Engineering feat Cobus Potgieter (drums)

Minotaur Project

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Minotaur Project

Minotaur Project is the musical journey of french-hungarian bassist/composer Matt Gabnai, writing a sort-of fusion metal music with an enormous variety of class

Minotaur Project is the musical journey of french-hungarian bassist/composer Matt Gabnai, writing a sort-of fusion metal music with an enormous variety of classical and jazz influences, often themed on literature, mythology, movies, or his own experiences. He started to play bass at the age of seventeen, but music quickly turned out rather a lifestyle for him, than just a hobby. After finishing his years in the local contemporary music school he was a bassist for Budapest-based metal group My Small Community, co-founder of the blues group Peef-Poof Project, and was also known for his work as a sound engineer. In 2010, as he decided to move to Strasbourg, France, and beside joining the heavy-metal group Mystery Blue, the long-waited distribution of his own music -Minotaur Project- has begun, with only a handful of aims to achieve: to provide music with an uncompromised quality of his influences, and to invite as many of his friends and favourite musicians to play with him as possible. Since 2011 he's one of the west-European endorsers of Prolude Amplification.

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Metal • Progressive Metal

Uploaded

August 02, 2011

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MP3 5.5 MB • 128 kbps • 5:58

Story behind the song

The story of this video is that Cobus Potgieter, who first gave me the idea to make videos of my songs came out with a "songwriting challenge" (sort of...), in which he proposed his drum-only tracks to be used to create a new, original song. I made a song for that (Synthetic Minotaur), and when I saw how well it was recieved, I decided to make two more, this is the last one of them.

Without writing too much I'd like to add a personal note to the song: I chose this track because of the dynamics. I started two times recording ideas on the drums, now I have about 4 different half-empty projects files with ideas thrown into the trashcan. I thought about this song almost 24/7 in the last two weeks, even started to plan it before Planet Unrealm. It was probably the most difficult track to date I have composed on, mainly because the choruses are not the top parts of the song. It was amazing planning something like this.
So, writing was about three complete days (if we count only the useful parts), filming and cutting the video was one another. I managed to move to a new (much bigger) flat during the process, hence the new spot for the studio.

The original song was 30 seconds to Mars' Vox Populi.

The subject of my song is (sort of) an answer to Vox Populi. The title (Reverse Engineering) is quite obvious, but the appearance of Kilgore Trout (actually Kurt Vonnegut) is a bit of irony. Ever since I started composing I stood against any kind of "call to arms", if there's someting I'm against it's killing other people and the perfectionism behind the instruments which makes this "job" easier. Kurt Vonnegut had seen the war, the devastation of Dresden, and after that (as well as my family members of the same age who saw the war) he changed. I'm not surprised by that. He was one of those who protested against any kind of war in his books with a humour that will accompany me to the rest of my life. I'm grateful for that. I learned a lot from him.