Rieux is a partnership between Matt Werner and Nate Clark, who met twenty years ago and began recording together shortly thereafter—mostly indie rock that would never see the light of day. Clark moved to Portland and continued to pursue music, founding a couple indie rock/post-punk bands and playing with various other musicians in Portland’s iconic scene. Werner moved to Chicago and ceased creating music for about eight years, focusing instead on writing music reviews for Popmatters and other online music magazines.
Rieux formed in 2020 amid the pandemic when Werner and Clark began sending demos back and forth online, slowly building a backlog of new material that was eventually released in 2022 as The Gestalt Manifesto on Castles in Space’s Subscription Library.
The duo write and record music on a number of analog and digital synthesizers and guitar. Equipment includes Moog Subharmonicon, Moog Mother-32, Moog DFAM, Arturia Microfreak, Korg MicroKORG S, Moog Grandmother, Moog Mavis, Arturia Buchla Easel V, Cherry Audio Dreamsynth, Dreadbox Nymphes, Dreadbox Hades, Hologram Microcosm, modular synths (Industrial Music Electronics Piston Honda, Mutable Instruments Plaits, Akemie’s Taiko, Music Thing Modular Turing Machine, Make Noise Maths, Noise Engineering BIA, Qu-Bit Bloom, among others), and other software synths.
Werner created Desert Planet Music originally as a music review site. It has now become the record label home for Rieux, with a new album coming soon in 2025!
Desert Planet Music 