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Francisco Lopez - Untitled #275 (Unsound)

The untitled series grow. A new palette appears, the emergence of an instrumentalist in Lopez’s repertoire, a curious and welcome variation. Reiner Van Houdt activates the piano like a groaning, clunking mechanical beast in Movement One. A crude, and brutish pulse of hammers and keys – a piano reduced to its most simple mechanical capacity.

Movement Two traverses into a wholly more beautiful landscape – a middle passage of distant drifts and notes concludes with an insectivorous climax of clicks. A wonderful refocusing of Lopez’s aesthetics.