We recently connected with Matt Boone and have shared our conversation below.

Matt, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

I’ve been playing in multiple bands with my best friends in the world for the past decade. It means a lot to me to be able to create music with the best people I know and I never take it for granted.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Music has been a lifelong pursuit of mine. I picked up the guitar when I was 11 and I’ve played in bands since I was 14 years old. In high school I was in this sort of funky alternative band which is when I met one of my best friends Griffin who I still make music with in today.

Over the years the two of us played in various different groups. One of them was an indie band called New Tree that put out a couple EPs and some singles from 2017-2021. At one of our shows in Atlanta I remember this dude just walks up to us after our set and buys me a beer and gives me a business card that said ‘Diego Hermoza – Audio Engineer’ or something like that. He wanted to produce some of our songs so we talked back and forth for a bit. Then I remember he sent me some of his own music and I remember being pretty blown away by it. I’d never heard anyone with a style like his but I knew it was something special. So we started writing stuff together and just really hit it off. Not long after he joined New Tree officially.

We’re both audio nerds and we started spending a ton of time in our home studios just writing and producing a bunch of music and after a while we had a huge bank of unreleased songs and ideas. Creatively, it sort of felt like we went into a sort of cocoon stage where we were developing a newer, more refined body of music.

In the spirit of that, we wanted to start from scratch and build a whole new band from the ground up, which is why we started Choachi. Since then we’ve been pulling songs out of a long list on Dropbox, finishing them in our studio and putting them out one by one.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Our goal with this band has always been to make something that we would want to hear as a listener. Music has been our passion since we were kids and we’re just trying to pay respect to the artists that inspire us by pushing our own limits. It’s a tricky question though because in my experience the best songs sort of write themselves almost effortlessly. If you have a ‘goal’ or ‘mission’ that you’re trying really hard to accomplish it can taint the flow of creativity.

I think if I had to boil it down, I’d say we make music as a way escape from the nihilism that seems to be perforating our society more and more these days. If someone enjoys listening to a song of ours on their drive to work or a roadtrip with friends or out camping or something, I’d say mission accomplished.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

In my opinion going to see live music is a great way to support artists. That being said, not everyone can do that so another huge way to show support is to share things online from artists you like. It really means a lot, especially to smaller artists. Other than that just keep listening and enjoying the music you like and stay open to trying out artists you haven’t heard yet.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://choachitheband.com/
• Instagram: @_choachi
• Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCCmEc5vYrBxn8yMyo3-BKNA
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bo9ooxgbYaOrTepkXcAVA?si=UsmPEs_XR12wSygCVZl2JA

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Nicolas Velasquez