Matt Costa
Schedule
Thu Sep 30 2021 at 08:00 pm
Location
Coach House Concert Hall | San Juan Capistrano, CA
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$ 20.00 / Age All AgesShow Dates are Subject to Change
Additional Info:
When Matt Costa started working on the songs for his sixth record Yellow Coat , hed been on tour for the better part of two years and had just ended a relationship of almost a decade. The music needed to exist, and it was as much an emotional exercise as a creative one.I think every other record that I've written, I wrote knowing that the songs would have an outlet, Costa says And for this one, I really didnt. It was just a process I was going through, clearing myself of these feelings and thoughts. The songs were like Costas letters to himself, with the honesty and intimacy of something that was not meant to be heard. I feel really close to them for that reason, he says. Some of my favorite writing is like that - Vincent Van Goghs Dear Theo , or Steinbecks A Life in Letters. Those are really revealing, because its not intended as part of their body of work. Theres something really special about that. But at the same time, I write songs and perform for a living. So it's hard to think these songs will never see the light of day. And now, of course, they have.Yellow Coat is a masterpiece of heartbreak from a preternatural tunesmith, its raw emotion channeled into gently swinging, hooky love songs, most of them awash in strings and mellotron and harmonies and groove. From the insinuating acoustic riffs and lo-fi beats of Avenal and the snappy fatalism of Slow to the almost church-like fragility of Last Love Song, Yellow Coat is equal parts lost 60s AM radio hits, folk-pop beauty and dark night of the soul music. At the time that Costa started writing, he had stripped things down not only emotionally, but in terms of his surroundings. He had moved into a Laguna Beach studio - as in the size of his living quarters, not a recording complex - with just the bare minimum of furniture and instruments. Instead of a bedside table, a Wurlitzer Sideman drum machine.The Wurlitzer eventually got used and sampled on Avenal, which Costa and his friend Chase Perkowski (Iris and the Shade) wrote on a going-nowhere road trip a few hundred miles northeast of L.A. I was in a searching headspace, Costa says. Running away from something, trying to find something, trying to find myself. We stopped at a gas station overlooking highway 5. Chase was strumming a few chords as the gas was pumping, and I sat under a tree humming a melody and frantically writingdown lyrics. By the time the car was fully fueled I asked him to play back the chords to me as I sang the song. Back on the road, the next sign said AVENAL: 2 Miles and Costa had both his opening track and song title.
Tickets:
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Where is it happening?
Coach House Concert Hall, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
USD 20.00
