As well as tex la homa Matthew makes music with various other people, some of these include 230 Divisadero with Nick Grey, The Blue Tree with Andrew Paine, Fougou with Brian Lavelle, Cat Lady with Michael Tanner and Grand Feast of the Dead with Mark Fry. Matthew also runs the label apollolaan recordings, releasing music by Kawabata Makoto, White Hills, The A Band, Andrew Paine, Plastic Crimewave, Plinth, Brian Lavelle, Directorsound & many others, with more to come...

In 2008 Acuarela released the Tex La Homa album "Little Flashes of Sunlight on a Cold Dark Sea". Also available is "The Rites of Spring" 5 new tracks released on 1st April 2009 on Apollolaan.

In 2010 Tex La Homa will collaborate with the Italian band Sparkle in Grey for a split release on Grey Sparkle label. The record is entitled "Whale Heart, Whale Heart" and presents four long pieces of music, two by Tex La Homa and two by Sparkle in Grey, in the soothing and melancholic style that is the common point among the two bands.


Photo by Julian Hickman.

Some press about Tex La Homa:

“A gentleman with a firm grasp of the importance of stillness and silence in music. His beats roll in like sleepwalking tapdancers, his basslines are corpulent and cavernous and he has less a vocal style and more a bedside manner where he half- whispers at you." > NME

"A beautifully understated, fragile affair. Bewitching and addictive." > The Times

"Tex La Homa stealing the show with a combination of shoe gazing lyricisms and reversed electronica. Like listening to radio waves from space" > Touch

"Rich instrumental elements and pained vocals to tell deep and disturbing tales of regret and intrigue. Lovely." > Boomkat

"I really don't think I've heard a current band get the shoegaze sound in all its subtlety so well- the drums are low in the mix and lazily played, the guitars lines are blurry and distorted with just a touch of melancholy, and the vocals sound like they are being whispered from some far away cloud." > Foxy Digitalis

“Simply beautiful” > Drowned in Sound