Category: Matt Lajoie

Ambient guitar mage and Flower Room Records impresario Matt LaJoie returns with the sprawling Stonehouse, a voyage to the far reaches of kosmische innerspace by way of midcoast Maine. While LaJoie’s Ayurveda-rooted “elements cycle” emanated a mellow bliss, Stonehouse and the corresponding tour document, Hiawatha Service, mark both an evolution and fruition of LaJoie’s ever-expanding sonic vision and incorporates the heavier leanings of his days with northeast psychedelic jammers Herbcraft and the dub-inflected soundscapes released under his ML Wah moniker.

The sprawling automatic compositions of Red Resonant Earth spring like mycorrhizae from the groundwork laid by kosimiche forerunners like Gottsching, Fricke, and Rother, reaching simultaneously toward realms both celestial and terrestrial. Immaculately looped passages of electric twelve-string wind like nimble tendrils through the opening textures of ‘Born Free’ and ‘Sprout’ before burrowing into the darker hues of ‘Mammoth’ and ‘Taos Hum > Claymaking,’ which spin out like Terry Riley and Roger McGuinn locked in perpetual dervish.