Snarling by Givan Lötz

SNARLING comes from South African artist, Givan Lötz, as a redux version of a 4 album series of slow quietly haunting songs written and distilled over a period of 4 years. Lötz’ invented sonic realm is at once immersive and submerged. It is a sub-aquatic planet of shifting veils and delayed frequencies, of murmurs and caverns and sudden twists of rupturing light. Its pace is that which occurs in media thicker than air, the time zone permanently pitched at dusk. As we travel through this twilight space of unpredictable half-light, Lötz’ narrative arc circles the problems of love – obsession, loneliness, desire, paranoia, tragedy, sensuality and melancholia all intermingle in this multi-tiered, meditative miscellany. Here are sprawling canvases of electronica, now thumping now floating, here are crunching, ominous electric guitars, thrumming organs, wild splashes of sound.

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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