Karma Voyage – Karma Voyage (EP – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Dream-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Karma Voyage is a new Italian duo, which by the end of 2021 unleashed their self-titled debut EP. It rather looks like a mini-album of five songs.
Content: The debut part of the work sounds devoted to Shoegaze mixed with Dark-Wave influences in the background. The songs are progressively built up till a powerful final part. The third song sounds like an intermezzo for both last cuts, which are moving into Dream-Pop. I noticed one song featuring female backing vocals.
+ + + : Karma Voyage avoids any kind of innovation, but let us discover an enjoyable production. I like the evolution in the tracklist from Shoegaze towards Dream-Pop. There you’ll discover “Untold Desires” characterized by an impressive, elevating guitar playing, which sounds a bit psychedelic.
– – – : This is an enjoyable debut, but without major songs. This band has a basis to move on with.
Conclusion: Karma Voyage has achieved an interesting debut revealing some potential, which they now have to elaborate and improve.
Best songs: “Untold Desires”, “Eclipse”.
Rate: 7.
Listen to “Karma Voyage”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/Karmavoyageband
Label: www.facebook.com/icycoldrecords
About Karma Voyage
Karma Voyage started in Venice, Italy at the end of 2019 as a project by Luca Castellaro on guitars and vocals and Giuseppe Brunetti on lead guitars. Alvise Scarpa on bass, Leonardo Sebastiani on synth and Edoardo Dotta on drums joined in May 2020. The band describes its music as neo-psych and experimental with strong new wave influences.
The single “Untold Desires” preceded the self-titled debut, which Icy Cold Records released on 18 October 2021. Its five tracks are “The Old Man”, “Eclipse”, “The Spell”, “Untold Desires” and “Venera”.
With Stefano Anoè on drums, the band recorded “Lights In Forgotten Places” at Velvet Studio between August and November 2022, produced by Luca Castellaro and released through Shyrec and Icy Cold Records in 2023. The self-released LP “Lands Beyond Eden” followed in 2025.
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