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Yaw

by Givan Lötz

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Behr 01:29
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Veruca 03:34
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Antley Bixler 02:08
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Bolus 00:52
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Daentl 02:03
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Vomer 02:28
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Liver 02:51
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Revesz 02:16
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Dipygus 02:43
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Fontanelle 03:11
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Lumbar 01:33
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Sternal 03:12
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Riehl 01:20
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Tunica 03:19
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Patella 02:52
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Epulis 03:12
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Tietz 00:44
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Rubella 03:02
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Crouzon 01:21
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Varicella 01:43
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Enterolith 00:41
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Cogan 02:09
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Keloid 05:22
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Marfan 01:24

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Unveil/En veil.

Givan Lötz' YaW – the telling and untelling companion work to previous album MAW – is a collection of instrumental vignettes that voices Lötz' inborn curiosity and play. The 24 sketches toy with and investigate style and stylization – stroking genre, sipping weird foliage, circumnavigating ley lines.

Imbibing the scents and scapes offered by established forms, YaW refrains from submitting to given biomes: One track is a found, alien instrument – part piano interior, part mystery string – morosely stumbling along, shedding gilden ambience, while another is set in some abandoned forest/attic, curtsying to skeletal strings punctuated by hoodoo-grin percussion and italicized shadow..

Most of YaW's songlets skirt identifiable category, titillate with amorous hints before ebbing from structure and re-assembling elseward.

Deliciously, YaW also serves to expand the brief, controlled perspectives of MAW's implicit world/s, unveiling the grids not described in the latter's 10 song map-work – those non regions traditionally demarcated by the legend 'dragons roam here.' As with philiac map-explorers of old, hungry listeners will know that 'dragons' are short-hand for hidden wonder.
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released April 7, 2017

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released April 7, 2017

Written, Recorded, Produced: Givan Lötz
Mastering: Jon Murphy

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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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