Philadelphia, PA – Multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and songwriter, Charlie Hall, will release his debut solo album, Invisible Ink, on May 12th via El Triángulo Records. The nine-song LP explores lush, entrancing, and hypnotic cinematic soundscapes that feature performances from artist friends from all over the globe. The title of each song evokes a physical place that inspired the composer. Invisible Ink was written by Hall, produced together with Quinn Lamont Luke and is one of the inaugural releases on Lamont’s El Triángulo imprint.

In addition to Hall, musicians lending their talent to the album include Chicago’s James Elkington (Tweedy, Joan Shelley, Steve Gunn), Sweden’s Thomas Hedlund (Phoenix), Norway-based Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie), Richmond’s Brian Jones (Slang Sanctuary, Agents Of Good Roots) and Daniel Clarke (k.d. lang), LA’s Frally Hynes (Venus & the Moon) and Crisanta Baker (Lo Moon), North Carolina based Rosali Middleman, Andrew Barr (The Barr Brothers) of Montreal, Gloucester, MA’s Tony Goddess (Papas Fritas) and his hometown collaborators Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby), James Lavino (Fellwalker)and of course The War On Drugs family - including Dave Hartley, Robbie Bennett, and Eliza Hardy Jones.

“What started out as a very solitary process, ended up being an exercise in love, generosity, and collaboration,” says Hall. “Each song began as a feeling, and I would lay out the harmonic palette and form. I wanted each tune to be its own little sonic universe and then see what it is that connects everything.”

“Throughout my entire life, music has been the connective tissue of my relationships,” he continues. “For as long as I can remember, going back to elementary school, my favorite thing to do every year would be to put a band together for the battle of the bands - to pick tunes, to get to know people in a new way through jamming. To this day one of my favorite things to do is to bring people together in the name of music. I’m endlessly fascinated by group dynamics and harmony - in music and in life. Harmony is about combinations and vibrations. Vibrations of sound.

“Once these songs got into the hands of trusted collaborators/loved ones, suddenly, those vibrations permutated and everything was in vivid technicolor. Not totally unlike when that house that was once in Kansas lands and you see the door open for the first time. And to have had the opportunity to bring nine different combinations of people who have encouraged and inspired me throughout my life to help me see these tunes gestate has been a dream.”

“I hope the music can transport listeners to some of the places that inspired these songs and gave them their titles, and communicate how those places and my memories of them make me feel: pensive, pastoral, adventurous, radiating warmth,” says Hall. “I want this music to be the kind that listeners want to make their own, connecting them with their own special places and feelings and times, soundtracks to their own stories. I want it to be generous.”