ARP of the Covenant

ARP of the Covenant: ARP of the Covenant

by James Taylor
November 17, 2007

Somewhere between electro-jazz and avant-prog-rock rests Minnesota's ARP of the Covenant. The trio's self-titled debut marries electronic and acoustic sounds, eschewing categorization, at times proving to be a rather exciting glimpse at what this band is capable of. Other times... not so much. The band, as its name would suggest, is wholly obsessed with the ARP synthesizer--a 1970s-era analog synthesizer--and, it seems, any other synthesizer, keyboard or laptop; anything electronic capable of sound manipulation. Led by keyboardist ...