Zam-Zam
Building on the dictaphone rawness of Matt Loveridge’s Atworth release as MXLX comes a devotional enrichment minus the tape hiss atmospherics, eight tracks that delve deep into the hammered soul of the piano.
From the void filling rumble of “Kenoma” to “Pleroma”‘s transcendence,
Apocrypha (Solo Piano) is another deep listening pleasure from the Loveridge / MXLX archives. An incredibly beautiful piece of work,
meltingly melancholic; at times it’s grievingly stark, others rivering a trickling lightness of touch, its tonal mirages hooking you in, stripping away all distraction.
The circling currency of the opener, its dark sabring keys seeding
deep and lyrical. The stark spatials of “Tchacos”, its evaporating verb and exorcising echo seeping into the conversationally coloured repeats of “Some Trouble”. A
Julius Eastman fixed stare, sycamore spiralling in humming freefall, caught in the peeling concentrics of “Onrush Swarm”.
The sound of that piano is crystal – fills your skull with a tensive-torn mantra that leads to the percussive black angel pour of “Archon XII”. A shiver-shot shapeshifter that the delicate romanticism of “Allogenes” rises from, feather-light and reborn to glisten in the trembling mycelial spread of “Pleroma”.
Matt’s ability
to transfix never ceases to amaze.
-Michael Rodham-Heaps-
Building on the dictaphone rawness of Matt Loveridge’s Atworth release as MXLX comes a devotional enrichment minus the tape hiss atmospherics, eight tracks that delve deep into the hammered soul of the piano.
