Baldwin, Matt / Night In The Triangle

American Dust

Night in the Triangle is the new double-album by acclaimed guitarist Matt Baldwin, his second release for American Dust. Conceived as a soundtrack for a science fiction film, the project is Baldwin’s first extended study for electric guitar and other non-acoustic instruments.  Driven by an energy darker and rawer than what inspires his acoustic work, Night in the Triangle aspires to trance and atmospherics. Baldwin’s role as interpreter is just as crucial as his role as originator. His bold ten-minute cover of Neu’s “Weissensee” and his epic, Dobro-driven and feedback-overloaded version of Judas Priest’s “Winter” from debut album Paths of Ignition were game-changers for a man stifled by association with the solo-guitar purists. On Night in the Triangle, Baldwin once again expands on the visions of his forebears with daring treatments of songs by The Durutti Column and Conrad Schnitzler. The visionary wildcard of today’s solo guitar music scene, Baldwin continues to make music that is at once verdant and threatening, comforting yet unsettling. To quote Julian Cope (who called Paths of Ignition “Album of the Month” on his Head Heritage website), “This so-called folkie Matt Baldwin druid is nothing less than a one-man heavy metal band! … Brothers ’n’ sisters, it’s fucking heroic. These Great Fists of Matt make Ben Chasny sound like Marge Proops in comparison.”

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