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Also known as
  
Matthew Shaw

Website
  
Official Website

Record label
  
Talitres

Years active
  
2001-present

Members
  
Matthew Shaw

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Labels
  
Acuarela, Talitres, Grey Sparkle, Black Fading, Superglider, Moonpalace, Melodic, Painted Sky Discs, Foehn, Chat Blanc, &

Origin
  
Sandbach, United Kingdom (2000)

Albums
  
If Just Today Were to Be My Entire Life, Some Lost Bliss

Genres
  
Electronica, Post-rock, Folk music, Ambient music, Experimental music

Similar
  
Sparkle in Grey, Early Day Miners, Maurizio Bianchi, Controlled Bleeding, Piano Magic

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Tex La Homa is a Dorset, UK-based post-rock project formed in the year 2000 by Matthew Shaw (guitar, keyboards, vocals, other instruments). The music combines "soft vocals with sort of distortion, surrounded by soft melodies, guitars and a bit of electronics to create almost pop-like modern ballads".

Contents

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History

Tex La Homa released their first album in 2001 (Dazzle Me with Transience).

The second Tex La Homa album, If Just Today Were to Be My Entire Life was released on Talitres records and on Hydrid Electric Records in the USA. Tex La Homa toured in late 2003 and into 2004 in the England, Denmark, USA, France, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland and Scotland.

In 2008 Acuarela released the acclaimed album Little Flashes of Sunlight on a Cold Dark Sea.

In 2010 Tex La Homa collaborates with the Italian band Sparkle in Grey for a split release on Grey Sparkle, Black Fading and Musica di Un Certo Livello. The LP is entitled Whale Heart, Whale Heart.

Interviews

"Interview to Matt Shaw" (Moonpalace Fanzine)

"Interview to Matt Shaw" (Denis Monopsone, Autres Directions)

Selected discography

  • You the Listener (2001, Superglider Records, CD)
  • If Just Today Were to Be My Entire Life (2004, Talitres records - EU, 2003 Hybrid Electric - USA & Japan)
  • Dazzle Me with Transience (2000, Painted Sky Discs - Japan, Superglider Records - UK)
  • Oh Peace! Get a Little! (2005, EP Moon Palace Records, CD-R)
  • Into Timeless Shadows (2006, Acuarela, CD)
  • Some Lost Bliss & Apport (2007, & Records in Japan, All is Number Records in USA and Europe)
  • Little Flashes of Darkness on a Cold Dark Sea (2008, Acuarela, CD)
  • Driebergen Zeist (2010, Sonic Oyster, 2010)
  • Whale Heart, Whale Heart, with Sparkle in Grey (2010, Black Fading/Grey Sparkle/MCL, LP)
  • Songs

    Invisible SuburbsSome Lost Bliss · 2007
    In the CloudsIf Just Today Were to Be My Entire Life · 2004
    Obsessed with AngelsSome Lost Bliss · 2007

    References

    Tex La Homa Wikipedia