The first thing you notice when entering Matt Monsoor's farmhouse is the plethora of seemingly one-of-kind furniture pieces - lamps, candleholders, and cabinetry. He’s lived in the same spot for 25 years, perched at the top of one of the area’s mini-mountains, complete with horse pasture and gnarled old apple trees. Monsoor coined the place “Comfortably Lost in Greenfield,” the township where the farm was located. It also became the name of his first release in 2001, which contained bits and pieces of life on the ridge.

After high-school Matt headed to Los Angeles and through a series of coincidences ended up living with his cousin on the grounds of the Paramour Mansion in the storied Silver Lake area east of downtown. The area was also known for the avant garde buildings created in the 1930s and was a haven for filmmakers, artists, and in the 1990s was dubbed a center of L.A.’s indie rock scene. 

After a few years in Los Angeles, Monsoor turned back toward home. His new passions for music and fine art furniture had a place to slowly grow at the hillside farm house. He purchased an 8 track minidisc recorder and slowly started collecting tools for a woodworking shop in the lower level of the home. He began developing a strange menagerie of art/furniture pieces and ushered along his first recordings, which became the multi-volume album project “Comfortably Lost in Greenfield.”  

In 2021, he and his wife Moriah bought a 30 acre property with a house, mature pine forest, reclaimed quarry, and an unused horse barn; it was just a half mile down the road.  The Comfortably Lost Project gained a new and larger palette and Monsoor transformed the old barn into a performance space and shop for his ever growing collection of music and art. The landscape and the performing space became interconnected and Matt’s trail maintenance turned into a host of singular and raw found-art furniture pieces, some created straight from the surrounding woods and others salvaged tables and chairs that were placed in curious nooks in the forest to encourage visitors to become comfortably lost themselves. The place feels like a gathering spot for artistic vision, a venue as landscape and dream space. 

2023 marks the launching of a new recording project called “Better Things,” which harkens back to a spontaneous recording made in the chapel on the grounds of the Paramour Mansion by his cousin and a friend.