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About Nypan

Album Review

Norwegian guitarist and composer Øyvind Nypan had a special project and, accordingly, special musicians in mind when conceptualizing his newest and third record for Losen Records, Big City. After contacting pianist Taylor Eigsti and receiving his positive response, Nypan was able to rally together the rest of the cast and shortly afterwards ended up recording this set of tunes in a matter of five hours on January 5th 2017 in the “big city" of New York. The interplay ...

Album Review

Nypan: Stereotomic

Read "Stereotomic" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
April 18, 2017

You have to give people a chance to miss you sometimes. Øyvind Nypan certainly seems to understand the idea of spacing visits apart in order to have something to bring back to the table each time. His second Losen Records outing took four years to follow on from Republique (Losen, 2013), and the entire backing cast is different, but there's something to be said for the pleasure of catching up (possibly for the first time). They may not have the ...