Karelle

Karelle is the unearthly avatar of Pierre Desprats, a body without organs returning from afar; a speleologist guided by voices, creating sacred sculptures without culture. He returns with Richter, a study of the space of intimacy sinking into social codes, which mirrors Karelle’s descent into the darkness of the underground. If the opening Cave seems to carry on Karelle’s tradition for sexless electronica, Caverne marks both a turn in the narration and also in Desprat’s talent for down-tempo grooves and meandering melodies. This scientific approach is even more obvious on Benjamin Confidence, his most noisy and experimental piece to date, Karelle opens up a core of unstable emotions, new fields of research at the bottom of the cave, whilst avoiding emotional blackmail and keeping concepts part of his mystery.