Andreas Karperyd – Entanglement (EP – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Earlier this year Swedish artist Andreas Karperyd released his second full length “GND” and is already back on track unleashing four new songs.
Content: “Entanglement” is an ultra-minimal piece of electronic sonorities. The work features low sound resonations, mysterious atmospheres and subtle bleeps. All the tracks are instrumental edits.
+ + + : “Entanglement” is a rather accessible Experimental production, which will appeal to the lovers of Minimal-Electronics. I like this minimalism, but also the ominous sphere hanging over the work that mainly emerges on “Rotation”. This is my favorite cut as it also reveals subtle bleeps. A. Karperyd creates a fascinating fusion between different influences, which he transposed into a very own sound suited to support visual content.
– – – : It might sound like an accessible Experimental production, it however remains a production for a very restricted number of listeners.
Conclusion: Experimentalism often is the trademark of visionary artists and Andreas Karperyd definitely belongs to this restricted group.
Best songs: “Rotation”, “False Memories Of Crime”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/A.Karperyd
Label: www.novoton.se / www.facebook.com/Novoton
About Andreas Karperyd
Andreas Karperyd is a Swedish electronic musician who records for the Stockholm label Novoton as A.Karperyd. His Bandcamp biography states he has been active since the mid-1980s and has released under the aliases Omala, Obconic, He Said Omala, Hox and A.Karperyd, alongside music written for stage and dance performances. Discogs lists him on the He Said Omala album “Catch Supposes” on Origin in 1997 and on the Hox album “It-ness”, issued through Apollo and R & S Records in 2001.
Under his own initial he released the limited vinyl box set “Woodwork” on Novoton in 2015, followed by the album “GND” on the same label in 2021.
“Entanglement EP” was released on 1 October 2021 through Novoton and holds four tracks: “Properties of Entanglement”, “False Memories of Crime”, “Rotation” and “As Complicated As You”. The label describes it as taking a more electronic route than its predecessor, calling it “glitchy, beats-driven, ambient electronica with a lot of warmth”.
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