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Maw

by Givan Lötz

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Lost Tribe Sound Maw took me a bit longer to connect with than other Lötz albums. It still has that rich, mysterious, dreamlike thing going for it. On some level, I connect with Lötz sound because it reminds me a lot of William Ryan Fritch and Matt Elliot. His deep vocal delivery and wide variety of obscure instrumentation just speak to me. While Maw maybe his most challenging songwriting yet, I like albums that make you work for their affection.
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1.
The Drowned 04:34
2.
Speak 05:50
3.
The Last One 04:39
4.
Shame 06:13
5.
The Grandfather 04:04
6.
Tender 03:56
7.
The Wind 01:50
8.
Sea 04:10
9.
The Ship 02:41
10.
Watchtower 05:02

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Musician and visual artist Givan Lötz is a shape shifter, an aural savant whose sound projects operate exterior to expectations. This is evident in the casual shift from the sparse, mesmeric meters of his striking debut, the predominantly acoustic troubadour/seer release "Easy Now" [2010], to the eclectic sprawl of four-disc follow-up "Snarl" [2013] and its redux version "Snarling," borne of sonic miscellany.

Highly conscious of the weight of sounds, and the potencies of space separating and shaping them, Lötz carefully employs the very canvas of timed space into his composition. With 2016’s "MAW," Lötz embarks on capturing an imagined humanity which exists post reason – its ten songs shed waning light onto and into this post-scientific realm where meaning is unhinged, shedding the loci of lexeme and category. Lyrical perspectives swell and distort, images fuzz into and from view, buoyed on the undulating melancholy, the inconsistent desire of instrumental undercurrents. Enigmatic and beautifully assured, "MAW" is a cryptic, strangely optimistic travelogue of some alternate human reality.

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released October 28, 2016

Music: Givan Lötz
Artwork: givanlotz.com
Mastering: Jacob van der Westhuizen
Label: Other Electricities

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Givan Lötz Johannesburg, South Africa

I am an artist because I am uncertain. The moments of obsession involved in this process of art-making aspire to achieve a mood of catharsis.

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