His other long-term projects include middle-eastern jazz band Shayan, jazz/indie-pop band Lilly Tunley Sextet, new-wave punk band Hydra Fashion Week and he has played with indie-rock singer-songwriter Gena Rose Bruce and toured Australia with experimental pop artist Biscotti. He is also bandleader, composer and guitarist for his bebop jazz band Joying which formed in 2018. Their latest album Bucolica was released independently in September 2019 at the Jazzlab in Melbourne, their second album Easy Listening was distributed via Melbourne record label Newmarket Music and was launched in Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart with a performance at MONA. He is the bandleader, guitarist and composer of post-rock jazz band Soft Power who have released three full-length albums and toured Australia twice. A passionate performer and supporter of community music, he is strongly embedded within the local scene as a player, curator and teacher. Deeply grounded in the African-American traditions of jazz and improvisational music-making, his musical output is now centered on creating immersive sound connections with the environment and the body and is informed by disparate and competing musical traditions. Matt Roche is a guitarist and composer living and working in Naarm (Melbourne).
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