With hundreds of thousands of Coachella-goers flocking to the Indio Valley, billboard real-estate along the major freeways does not come cheap.
Which makes the investment by Norwegian DJ and producer, Matoma, that much more culturally empowering.
Read more about Matoma right here.
This week, Matoma has three consecutive billboards booked on the i-10 East freeway to Indio for Coachella, which hundreds of thousands of Coachella goers have driven past past on their way through the desert.
The original intent of these billboards was to promote his new music (linked b, but with the horific war continuing in Ukraine he’s decided to put them towards a more meaningful cause – raising funds and awareness for a fantastic charity called Music Saves UA.
Matoma partnership with Music Saves UA, an organization providing humanitarian aid for those who need it most in Ukraine, is just the beginning of a movement which brings heavy cultural significance to the moment we are living through.
Music Saves UA started in part by organizers of another music festival – Atlas Festival – whom Matoma performed for in 2019. With the current climate in need of drastic response, their nightclub is now converted into a humanitarian headquarters providing much needed supplies to those most affected by the war.
As Matoma Says:
“Only a few years ago, I played at a festival called Atlas in Ukraine to a beautiful crowd of people, just like those attending Coachella this year. Those days of freedom are sadly gone for them, and now bombs rain down on their cities.
These same people from Atlas Festival have converted their nightclub to a humanitarian centre, providing supplies and care for those who need their help. This is one of the most inspiring things I’ve seen and gives me much needed hope. This club was once filled with free, happy people, and now driven with a true purpose of goodness it rises to a new, greater purpose.
This is the power of music and love.”
Matoma recently teamed up with electronic dance-pop trio A R I Z O N A to release their heartwarming collaborative single, “Heart So Big,” written with A R I Z O N A’s longtime collaborator PJ Bianco as a love letter to his son with autism, which will also have an accompanying charity component related to Autism Awareness Month.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
