https://www.christhile.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-15 https://www.christhile.com/about daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606214c1c4ff865b3769b851/1617744533059-2TW0D6HICEK3X0EW9RK5/1493-1497+%281%29.jpg About At the heart of the album is a three-part piece, “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” that Thile premiered during a fall 2018 composer’s residency at Carnegie Hall. It was, he’s noted, “the first (and so far only) music I’ve made specifically to perform alone, which felt like an opportunity to sing some words that it wouldn’t necessarily be fair to put in a collaborator’s mouth.” Little did Thile know he was merely at the start of what would become a solitary adventure, professionally and, lord knows, philosophically. Thile had been inspired to write “Salt” after revisiting C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters—a satirical collection of letters from a senior demon to his apprentice—during a long-haul plane trip. The novel cleverly addresses temptation and the undermining of faith. In each movement of “Salt,” Thile plays a variation on a devil’s advocate, nurturing superiority complexes in believers and non-believers alike, with a targeted spiritual disinformation campaign. Thile’s performance is broad and full of mischief, and his playing is just as lively, but there’s a gravity to the questions he poses that lays the foundation for the rest of Laysongs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606214c1c4ff865b3769b851/1617744696247-CO46RAOZMG8X956L8PNI/1493-0856.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606214c1c4ff865b3769b851/1617758425027-A2MPTGQCVKPMHVAGEPD2/1493-1709.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606214c1c4ff865b3769b851/1617758506824-K0E822WO28HQQUZUO791/1493-1292.jpg About “I went in there to look at the space and instantly felt so at home,” Thile recalls. “I loved the amount of sound around the sound. 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