Matson Belle

Matson Belle is an award-winning pop/electronic collaboration with world beat, Middle Eastern and classical string influences who have sold CDs in 16 different countries, have a fiction novel named after one of their songs, have won 6 major music awards, have been placed in 3 feature film soundtracks, and had a rock star offer to buy their song "Float" (he was denied) - all through word-of-mouth and a dynamic, international musical palette that doesn't pigeonhole them into one specific genre. Within one year after arriving in Austin, TX, the "Music Capital of the World," they won Best New Band, Best Pop Band and Best Electronic Band at the 2003 Austin Music Awards and Best Pop Song at the 2003 Austin Songwriters Awards. In 2004 they won another Austin Music Award for Best Electronic Band and received recognition for Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.