Full Service Station, by Matt LaJoie

Full Service Station

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Full Service Station documents the first (and, to-date, only) public live solo guitar performance by Matt LaJoie following the release of his acclaimed debut LP The Center and the Fringe at the top of this calendar year. In a set captured live at Academy Records Annex in Brooklyn by noted taper and underground archivist Jesse DeRosa, LaJoie weaves bowed, fingerstyle, plucked, and strummed notes on the same instruments and live-looping setup used on Center & Fringe into all new tapestries of sound.

The opening title track begins with layers of harmonically rich bowed drone, and as individualized notes gradually color the space in freestyle strokes, a subtle arrangement coalesces around spontaneous motifs and the invisible meter created by each loop's return to the top. The motion of ecstatic dance is suggested by the playful and joyful rhythms that accumulate one note at a time, these foundations eventually slowed, reversed, or sped up to align to an all-new field of possibility every few minutes. On the B-side, "Return Trip" incorporates a distant memory of Center & Fringe's "Plane of Return" at its onset; like a mirage, the seemingly familiar notes and rhythmic patterns spread, smear, and fade as they approach peak sun-stroked clarity. Once perception of the sound disperses back into pure wave and field, new pioneering lead lines appear as a guide out of the teeming void just as the performance concludes.

LaJoie's previous live tape, The Fountain (fro-oo9), introduced listeners to his particular style of merging pure improvisation on guitar with the on-the-fly compositional / backing track assistance provided by live-looping; The Center and the Fringe and its companion tape Happy to Help furthered these experiments by presenting the process in higher definition and clearer resolution than ever before. Listeners pulled in by one or both iterations of this ever-shifting web of sound will delight that tape was rolling that February evening in Brooklyn, offering fresh documentation of a style unique amongst time's unfolding catalog of guitar-based improvisational music.

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released July 29, 2019

Matt LaJoie: 10-string acoustic guitar, 6-string electric guitar, loops.
Recorded live at Academy Records Annex (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY), February 8, 2019.
Live recording by Jesse DeRosa; mixed by Matt LaJoie.
Photo of ML by Ash Brooks.
Special thanks to Jeff Conklin & Academy, Jesse DeRosa, Danny Arakaki, and Tom Malach.

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