Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Experimental, Ethereal-Pop.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: Karin My Andersson is a Swedish female artist who did some vocals in different bands like Twice A Man, Coph Nia, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Fake Moss ao. She’s also involved with Gasleben & Electric Friends and now unleashed her official debut-album. I can’t speak about a real solo-work as multiple guests (musicians and vocalists) contributed to the writing and production of the work. The songs are based on poems of Karin My.

Content: “Silence Amygdala” sounds like an invitation to explore an imaginary world. It’s an evasive sonic trip revealing the fragile and emotive voice of the artist. On some of the songs she reminds me of the wafting sensation created by Enya. The basis of the songs have been composed by Electronics, but still featuring guitar, acoustic guitar, cello, flute ao. One of the most surprising cuts is the cover version of VNV Nation’s “Homeward”, which has been transposed into an acoustic guitar ballad.

+ + + : This album has something graceful. The artist didn’t spare any effort to achieve a mature production. Karin My’s poems have been masterly transposed into music and it’s the entire production, which has a poetic smell. The use of real instruments for sure partly creates this artistic sensation. The songs have something elevating creating the illusion of a feather driven through the wind. This work has something delicate and enlightening. “Winter Tree” and “Time To Go” both are beautiful songs.

– – – : The second part of the album is less convincing by the exception of the last (title)song. The VNV Nation cover version is an original one, but not totally fitting with the rest of the album.

Conclusion: This work feels like sunshine after the storm; a true relief, which sounds sweet and frail.

Best songs: “Winter Tree”, “Time To Go”, “Letter”, “Silence Amygdala”.

Rate: (7).

Artist: www.karinmy.net

Label: www.explorata.net / www.facebook.com/adinexplorata

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Out via Xenophone International on May 14 is ”Spare parts for the offspring”, the new synthpop album from Gasleben & Electric friends. The driving force behind this project is Swedish electronic music pioneer Karl Gasleben who you might know from Twice a Man. Twice a Man was an electro act based in Gothenburg, Sweden which also had Dan Söderqvist behind the keyboards.

But back to the album ”Spare parts for the offspring”. The music for this new project was indeed a collaborative effort and was completed and recorded with the input from the other Swedish musicians Peter Davidson, Anna Öberg and Karin My. The album holds 8 tracks in total.

To get an idea what the project is about it’s also worth it checking out what the other artists in the project have been working on in the past.

For those who don’t know Karl Gasleben, here’s a small recap. Via the bands Anna Själv Tredje and Cosmic Overdose he ended up in Twice a Man. Besides Twice a Man he is still working with The Ändå and he is also a live musician in Anna Öberg’s live band Härsk. He was also active in the band The Butterfly Effect in 1991 and in Beehive Plains.

Peter Davidson from his side has collaborated with Twice a man in the past and also released a number of ambient instrumental works. Anna Öberg is better known to our readers since she was featured various times already on Side-Line. Starting in her birthplace Helsingborg, she is now active from Gothenburg and has released three solo albums: “Härsknar”, “Vafan har jag gjort!” and “Varelser inuti”. Karin My recently released her full-length debut “Silence Amygdala” which basically is a collection of very dark fairy tales.

Below is a first teaser from the album.

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