Pink Hymnalia, by Matt LaJoie

Pink Hymnalia

by Matt LaJoie

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On March 5, 2020, Matt LaJoie performed an extended solo guitar improvisation at the energetically charged locale of Montauk Salt Cave in Manhattan’s East Village, celebrating the release of his second solo LP Everlasting Spring. There, amid walls lined with thick bricks of pink salt, a salt-rock beach underfoot and synthetically twinkling skies above, Matt’s 10-string acoustic and 6-string electric guitars wove threads of kosmische percolation and skywise exploration, raga-inspired guitar soli, and loop-based ambient drone beds to produce a calming-yet-searching set of music for the intimate crowd of 20. Presented here in complete, unedited and lightly mixed & mastered form from the field recording of that set, Pink Hymnalia places the listener “in the room” and offers a glimpse into Matt’s intended 2020 live solo presence (all subsequent shows planned in support of Everlasting Spring were canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic), while also allowing the echo of that one evening to reverberate beyond the confines of time and space.

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released April 15, 2020

Matt LaJoie : 10-string acoustic guitar, 6-string electric guitar, DL4, Holy Grail Reverb

Recorded March 5, 2020 at Montauk Salt Cave NYC. Mixed and mastered April 2020 by ML. Cover photo by Ash Brooks.

Special thanks to Chris Tart at Thunder Shout for organizing the event, as well as all who attended.

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