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Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces

When Matt Costa sat down to write what would become Unfamiliar Faces the singer/songwriter took his most treasured belongings and put them on a shelf — then stared at them and just let the memories flow.
"That way I could see everything that I loved," he explains (the collection included his favorite books, a giant wooden pipe, and a box of old 45-speed records from the late 1950s). "I let my imagination wander. Regular life isn't as exciting as an imaginary life."

He may thrive on imagination, but Costa's real life has never been dull. He grew up next door to a pet cemetery, played trumpet and piano, gave his first impromptu performance on a houseboat, and focused more on skateboarding than school in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California. He was drawn to the freedom and improvisation of skating, and also says, "I discovered a lot of music through skating — B-sides that nobody else had heard that made me want to find more music."
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