Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea

TEX LA HOMA - Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea CD (Acuarela (Spain): nois1087: 8426946903786)


Departing from the more electronic oriented sounds on previous albums by Tex la Homa, Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea is a collection of eleven acoustic songs featuring Matt Shaw on every instrument, mainly guitar and piano. After releasing six exclusive tracks (which were a prelude to the sound of this last record) entitled Into Timeless Shadows a couple of years ago, Acuarela is proud to present the fourth album by Tex la Homa, an approach towards a more intimate and personal side of his music. Ever since the beginning of Tex la Homa Matt Shaw has played very quiet acoustic concerts, a side of his music he really wanted to explore more on his recordings. A wooden guitar, some keyboards and pianos and his voice. All against a microphone and a computer, within the emptiness of his room in Poole, Southern England. The aim Shaw tried to achieve while writing the songs of Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea was to have mostly acoustic sounds and try to write very simple but melodic songs. To reduce everything down to what it is actually needed to communicate an idea or a story, and to try to keep things clear. Old friends' names and past events served as inspirational memories. So there are songs about people Matt was around when he was writing the songs ("Dream Sliding") and people from his past ("The Ginnel") but sometimes written about as if it were all still happening now ("The Unanswered Question"). Matt reaches the idea that within our memories these past events can be as real as what is happening in our present lives. The eternal now, with things happening on several planes of existance, that we may or may not really understand. But this music is also deeply influenced by places like Sandbach in Chesire, where Matt grew up, Barnoldswick and surrounding Lancashire and Yorkshire, where he spent a lot of his childhood, Poole in Dorset where he currently lives and snapshots of various places he has travelled over the years. Also by the sea which he lives close to. As an extension of what was started with Into Timeless Shadows, the EP Matt recorded for Acuarela two years ago, this new record sees no use of electronic programming or heavy atmospheres and textures featured on Some Lost Bliss (& Records, 06 / All Is Number, 07). If that record was Tex la Homa's best electronic effort, taking even further the mixture of dream pop, folk and ambient of If Just Today Were To Be My Entire Life (Talitres, 03) and Dazzle Me With Transience (Superglider, 02), his two other albums, Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea opens a new direction for Tex la Homa. One based on personal experience as an engine for creating music with an undeniable healing power.

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